Living art : individual and collective creativity : becoming Paul-Émile Borduas / Jean-Philippe Warren ; translated by Steven Urquhart ; preface by Ray Ellenwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warren, Jean-Philippe, 1970- author.

Contributor:

Urquhart, Steven, 1974- translator.

Ellenwood, Ray, 1939- writer of preface.

Standardized Title:

Art vivant, autour de Paul-Émile Borduas. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Borduas, Paul-Émile, 1905-1960.

Borduas, Paul-Émile.

Painters--Québec (Province)--Biography.

Painters.

Automatism (Art movement).

Automatism (Art movement)--Québec (Province).

Québec.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 238 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

regular print

Other Title:

Becoming Paul-Émile Borduas

Place of Publication:

Ontario, Canada : Exile Editions, [2017]

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

"An original, extremely well-researched and illustrated book that uses multiple perspectives to bring the reader closer to the experience of Borduas' contemporaries, providing a new understanding of the period. Paul-Émile Borduas had both successes and failures as he tried to express in artwork and words his vision of a generous, spontaneous, creative society. He was the catalyst for events that led to the writing of an important social and artistic manifesto, Refus global (Total Refusal, in translation with Exile Editions), published in 1948 by the movement known as Les automatistes. Jean-Philippe Warren shows us the reversals and contradictions that make up this cultural figure, renowned for both his art and his thought. How his early hopes and doubts fermented in the crucible that is the mind of a young man. And how his attempts to find a new voice reflect the changes of a society trying to come to terms with a troubling and elusive modernity. Ultimately, Warren looks to understand the path that led Borduas to adopt a pictorial approach that was a clean break with the academicism of his time. He studies a man who broke early with the Catholic religion of his childhood, and who tried to replace it with a radically different ethic. At the same time, he suggests that Borduas came from an ambiance of Catholic intellectuals and artists who shared many of his progressive views and were also critical of the Church's attitude to society and art. This is a remarkable portrait of one of our greatest artists and intellectuals, and shines a new light on a crucial turning point in the history of Quebec and Canada. Includes 19 colour and 18 B & W paintings and photographs."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: The Threshold

Our Anxiety

Anticlericalism from Within

In Father Couturier's Footsteps

To Hell with Holy Water and the French-Canadian Tuque!

Absolute and Abstraction

The Mystic of Automatism

A Pure and Living Art

We Have Lost Instinct

Borduas, "Plasticien"

The Charge of the Expormidable Painter

The Bozards

Children's Drawings

The One by Whom Scandal Comes

When My Dreams Head Off to War!

The Latest Trend

The End of a World.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-235).

Other Format:

Warren, Jean-Philippe, 1970- Art vivant, autour de Paul-Émile Borduas. English. Living art.:

ISBN:

9781550967166

1550967169

OCLC:

985075223