- Hardcover: 160 pages
- Publisher: Douglas & Mcintyre; First Edition edition (Sep 14 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1553653564
- ISBN-13: 978-1553653561
- Product Dimensions: 28.8 x 28.2 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.3 Kg
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#89,959 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #20 in Books > Reference > Catalogues & Directories > Catalogues
- #70 in Books > Arts & Photography > History & Criticism > Regional > Canadian
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There have been three moments in the history of Canadian art when we have stood at the vanguard of international developments. There's the advent of photo-conceptualism in Vancouver in the seventies. There's the emergence of Michael Snow's experimental films in the sixties and seventies. And there's the incendiary outbreak of Automatiste painting, literature, theatre and dance, created by a band of fledgling Montreal artists led by their mentor Paul-Émile Borduas. --Globe & Mail
“(a) sumptuously illustrated book…written by two eminently qualified experts on the Automatistes…” --Literary Review of Canada
"The richly illustrated book THE AUTOMATISTE REVOLUTION, which serves as the catalogue for an eponymously named exhibition, includes a lengthy essay by curator and art historian ROALD NASGAARD on the inspirations and innovations of Automatiste painters, as well as writer and translator Ray Ellenwood's shorter essay "Automatisme beyond 'the barracks of plastic arts.'" The latter delves into the various writings, choreographic experiments, and collective activities of the group's members." --Canada's History
“(a) sumptuously illustrated book…written by two eminently qualified experts on the Automatistes…” --Literary Review of Canada
"The richly illustrated book THE AUTOMATISTE REVOLUTION, which serves as the catalogue for an eponymously named exhibition, includes a lengthy essay by curator and art historian ROALD NASGAARD on the inspirations and innovations of Automatiste painters, as well as writer and translator Ray Ellenwood's shorter essay "Automatisme beyond 'the barracks of plastic arts.'" The latter delves into the various writings, choreographic experiments, and collective activities of the group's members." --Canada's History
Book Description
Following the success of Abstract Painting in Canada comes an introduction to the Automatistes, Canada’s first avant-garde art movement.
Young and innovative, Montreal’s Automatistes revolutionized painting in the 1940s. Living in the restrictive Quebec of the Duplessis years, painters, dancers and writers—led by Paul-Émile Borduas and inspired by the Surrealists—found freedom of expression in abstraction pursued through automatism: an instinctive, unpremeditated form of creating art.
On August 9, 1948, the Automatiste painters published Refus global, a call for the right to live and make art spontaneously and freely. The group would be acclaimed internationally—due largely to Jean-Paul Riopelle. Sixty years later, the Automatiste legacy is alive in Jean-Paul Mousseau’s murals, Marcelle Ferron’s stained glass works, Claude Gauvreau’s plays and Françoise Sullivan, Françoise Riopelle and Jeanne Renaud’s dances.
Sumptuously illustrated, The Automatiste Revolution accompanies the first comprehensive exhibition in English Canada devoted to the Automatistes’ works.
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