A modern life : art and design in British Columbia, 1945-1960 / Alan C. Elder [and others].

Title & Author:

A modern life : art and design in British Columbia, 1945-1960 / Alan C. Elder [and others].

Publication:

Description:

175 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Vancouver Art Gallery, May 15-Oct. 3, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references.
A modern life: art and design in British Columbia 1945-1960 / Ian M. Thom-- A climate for the arts -- The artist, the designer and the manufacturer: representing disciplines in design for living / Alan C. Elder -- Significant material: ceramics of British Columbia 1945-1960 / Rachelle Chinnery -- The lost city: Vancouver painting in the 1950s / Scott Watson -- Plywood and modern furniture design in British Columbia 1945-1960 / Allan Collier -- The object of living western homes & living / Sherry McKay.
Also issued online.

Summary:

"A Modern Life: Art and Design in British Columbia 1945-1960 celebrates the co-operative spirit between art and industry in post-war British Columbia, and the extraordinary marriage of what were often very separate artistic disciplines: visual art, design, furniture, craft, and architecture. This, combined with the province's new economic confidence, and the use of materials developed in the province, created an atmosphere of unprecedented optimism and promise for the future." "These artists, in their paintings, crafts, and designs, articulated a specifically British Columbian point of view as it related to the idea of community - how we could and should live our lives, during a time when the province had reason to believe passionately in what was to come."--BOOK JACKET.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

1551521717
9781551521718

Subject:

Art, Canadian British Columbia Vancouver 20th century Exhibitions.
Decorative arts British Columbia Vancouver History 20th century Exhibitions.
Design British Columbia Vancouver History 20th century Exhibitions.
Modernism (Art) British Columbia Vancouver History 20th century Exhibitions.
Modernism (Art) British Columbia Exhibitions.
Decorative arts British Columbia History 20th century Exhibitions.
Modernisme (Art) Colombie-Britannique Expositions.
Arts décoratifs Colombie-Britannique Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Design Colombie-Britannique Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Arts décoratifs Colombie-Britannique Vancouver Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Design Colombie-Britannique Vancouver Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Modernisme (Art) Colombie-Britannique Vancouver Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Art, Canadian
Decorative arts
Design
Modernism (Art)
Arts décoratifs.
Mobilier.
Modernisme (Art)
1940-1949.
1950-1959.
British Columbia
British Columbia Vancouver
Colombie-Britannique (Province)

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
History

Added entries:

Elder, Alan C., 1955-
Vancouver Art Gallery.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 233271
Call No.: NK1413 A3 B75 2004
Status: Available

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