My Account Log in

1 option

David Milne : modern painting / edited by Sarah Milroy & Ian A. C. Dejardin.

Fine Arts Library ND249.M5 A4 2018
Loading location information...

Available This item is available for access.

Log in to request item
Format:
Book
Contributor:
Milroy, Sarah, editor.
Dejardin, Ian A. C., 1955- editor.
Dulwich Picture Gallery, host institution.
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, host institution.
Vancouver Art Gallery, host institution.
National Gallery of Canada, sponsoring body.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Milne, David, 1882-1953--Exhibitions.
Milne, David.
Milne, David, 1882-1953.
War artists--Canada--20th century--Biography.
War artists.
Canada.
Landscape painting, Canadian.
World War, 1914-1918--Art and the war.
World War, 1914-1918.
Local Subjects:
Milne, David.
Genre:
Biographies.
Art and the war.
Art.
Exhibition catalogs.
Physical Description:
205 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 28 cm
Other Title:
Modern painting
Place of Publication:
London : Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd. 2018.
Summary:
This comprehensive survey of the life and work of the Canadian artist David Milne (1882-1953) accompanies the first UK exhibition of Milne's work at Dulwich Picture Gallery and brings together one hundred and twenty of his most significant works in oil, watercolour and dry-point printmaking. Like the members of the Group of Seven, Milne primarily chose landscape as his subject matter. However, his true subject was the process of perception and representation, reducing his painting to its essentials and infusing it with his own distinctive modern sensibility. Through the use of photographs, archival material and Milne's own writings the book presents a moving account of one man's spiritual and emotional voyage into modernity - from his early life in small town Ontario, to the bustling sidewalks of New York, on to the war torn landscapes of northern France as an official war artist and back again to the woods, lakes and fields of upstate New York. Pivoting as it does on Milne's war art, which includes some of the most formally daring of his career, the publication will serve as a poignant locus of remembrance, underscoring the historic bond between Canada and Great Britain, and offering a unique perspective on history through the eyes of one of Canada's most sophisticated modern painters. Exhibition: Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK (14.02.-07.05.2018).
Contents:
Director's foreword
Dazzle and kick: the life of David Milne / Ian A.C. Dejardin
A mind of his own / Sarah Milroy
The New York years 'plunging into the sun': David Milne in New York City / Katerina Atanassova
Into the woods 'the mystery thing': David Milne and spritiuality / Katharine Lochnan
Document of war : modern catastrophe / Margaret MacMillan
Aftermath: five stumps / Anne-Marie Ninacs
Return to Canada: Milne's Great indoors / Jane Urquhart
Milne's mineshafts: a conversation / Edward Burtynsky and Sarah Milroy
A sudden opening / John O'Brien
A radical shify at Six Mile Lake / David P. Silcox.
Notes:
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'David Milne: Modern Painting' at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 14 February- 7 May 2018, Vancouver Art Gallery, 16 June- 16 September 2018, & McMichael Collection of Canadian Art, 4 October 2018- 13 January 2019."
ISBN:
9781781300619
1781300615
1781300720
9781781300725
OCLC:
1019664493

The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.

Find

Home Release notes

My Account

Shelf Request an item Bookmarks Fines and fees Settings

Guides

Using the Find catalog Using Articles+ Using your account