Title: A modern life : art and design in British Columbia, 1945-1960 /
Authors: Elder, Alan C., 1955-; Vancouver Art Gallery
Publisher: Vancouver Art Gallery : Arsenal Pulp Press,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Art, Canadian British Columbia Exhibitions.; Decorative arts British Columbia History Exhibitions.; Design British Columbia History Exhibitions.; Modernism (Art) British Columbia History Exhibitions.; Art, Canadian British Columbia Vancouver Exhibitions.; Decorative arts British Columbia Vancouver History Exhibitions.; Design British Columbia Vancouver History Exhibitions.; Modernism (Art) British Columbia Vancouver History Exhibitions.
Abstract: "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.
Contents: 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.