Alex Colville
Subtitle: a rebellious mind
By: Ray Cronin
Contributors: Colville, Alex, 1920-2013
Series: Gaspereau field guides to Canadian artists -- no. 3
Publisher: Gaspereau Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Kentville, Nova Scotia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 57
ISBN-13: 9781554471881
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Work titles: Alex Colville (2018)
Description: "Alex Colville (1920-2013) is perhaps Canada's best known twentieth-century painter. After serving as a war artist in the Second World War, Colville went on to produce a body of work whose influence has extended into the broader culture. Working in a heightened-realist style, Colville invests imagery from his everyday small-town life with tension, evoking the individual's precarious assertion of humanity and order upon a landscape where the experience of nihilism and despair are never fully eclipsed."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 55).