Kirk Niergarth

The Dignity of Every Human Being

New Brunswick Artists and Canadian Culture Between the Great Depression and the Cold War

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

“The Dignity of Every Human Being” studies the vibrant New Brunswick artistic community which challenged “the tyranny of the Group of Seven” with socially-engaged realism in the 1930s and 40s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 147mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781442645608
• ISBN-10: 1442645601
• Artikelnr.: 41029902

Autorenporträt

Kirk Niergarth is an assistant professor in the Department of Humanities at Mount Royal University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Part I: Art and Democracy
Introduction
The Atmosphere: Art and Politics in Canadian Magazines, 1935-1939
Walter Abell, Canadian Culture, and the Maritime Push
Part II: The Collective Dream in New Brunswick Art
Saint John
Two “Giants”: “Pro-Artists” Jack Humphrey and Miller Brittain
Artists are like this: Common interests of the “Crowd”
Arising from the Thirties Dream: Saint John Artists and the Postwar Period
Notes