Entangled : two views on contemporary Canadian painting / curators and editors, Bruce Grenville and David MacWilliam.

Entangled: Two Views on Contemporary Canadian Painting' offers an insight into two distinctly different modes of painting that have come to dominate contemporary painting in this country. The origins of both can be effectively traced back to the 1970s, to a moment when the continued existence o...

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Corporate Author: Vancouver Art Gallery (host instituion,)
Other Authors: Grenville, Bruce (Editor, Curator), MacWilliam, David, 1951- (Editor, Curator)
Other title:Entangled (2017)
Two views on contemporary Canadian painting.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London, UK : Vancouver, BC, Canada : Black Dog Publishing ; Vancouver Art Gallery, [2017]
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Summary:Entangled: Two Views on Contemporary Canadian Painting' offers an insight into two distinctly different modes of painting that have come to dominate contemporary painting in this country. The origins of both can be effectively traced back to the 1970s, to a moment when the continued existence of painting was hotly debated. Within that debate two new strategies were devised, one that proposed the possibility of conceptual painting - a highly refined notion of painting that emerged from and returned to the idea - and a second, ambivalent proposition that valued actions and materials over ideas - in short, doing and making were pitted against ideas and concepts.now enjoys in Canada.
Item Description:Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name, organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery, curated by Bruce Grenville and David MacWilliam and presented from 30 September, 2017 to 2 January, 2018.
Physical Description:111 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:1911164449
9781911164449
9781927656341
1927656346