The Way It Is
The Life of Greg Curnoe
Biography & Memoir, Artists, Architects & Photographers, Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, Art History
| Author: | James King | ISBN: | 9781459736900 |
| Publisher: | Dundurn | Publication: | September 2, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Dundurn | Language: | English |
| Author: | James King |
| ISBN: | 9781459736900 |
| Publisher: | Dundurn |
| Publication: | September 2, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Dundurn |
| Language: | English |
- First-ever biography and critical survey of a major artist who disrupted the Canadian art establishment
- Features gorgeous colour reproductions of many of Curnoe’s most vivid and important paintings, which have not been collected together previously
- A personal and intimate look at a major Canadian talent at work — showing his struggles alongside his towering successes
- Anti-Americanism and the rise of Globalization were prescient, key issues in Curnoe’s art — tensions highly relevant today, which his works raise without resolving
- Author has written six novels and nine biographies, including the GG-nominated biography of Herbert Read, The Last Modern
- Author of Inner Places, a biography of Canadian painter David Milne, shortlisted for a Hamilton Literary Award
- First-ever biography and critical survey of a major artist who disrupted the Canadian art establishment
- Features gorgeous colour reproductions of many of Curnoe’s most vivid and important paintings, which have not been collected together previously
- A personal and intimate look at a major Canadian talent at work — showing his struggles alongside his towering successes
- Anti-Americanism and the rise of Globalization were prescient, key issues in Curnoe’s art — tensions highly relevant today, which his works raise without resolving
- Author has written six novels and nine biographies, including the GG-nominated biography of Herbert Read, The Last Modern
- Author of Inner Places, a biography of Canadian painter David Milne, shortlisted for a Hamilton Literary Award
