Logic of Ecstasy Canadian Mystical Painting, 1920-1940

Name: Logic of Ecstasy Canadian Mystical Painting, 1920-1940
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ISBN: 9780802059161

ISBN-10: 0802059163

ISBN-13: 9780802059161

Edition: 1992

Authors: Ann Davis

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"Our understanding of twentieth-century art is largely based on an aesthetic tradition initiated by the Impressionists, Cezanne, and the Cubists. However, painting that is mystically rather than aesthetically realized can not be examined within this tradition. What is needed is a new context, one which allows us to probe the mystical experience and teachings that motivate visionary painters. This book examines the ways in which Bertram Brooker, Emily Carr, Lawren Harris, Jock Macdonald, and Fred Varley, five of the most dynamic and innovative Canadian painters of the period 1920-1940, used mystical form rather than aesthetically initiated form in their painting." "None of these painters was…

Book details

List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 216
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Ann Davis is Director of The Nickle Arts Museum at the Unviersity of Calgary and a prominent art critic, curator, and teacher.

Preface
Acknowledgments
From Conventional Religion to Mysticism	p. 3
Whitman and Transcendentalism	p. 42
Theosophy and the Fourth Dimension	p. 95
Nature, Space, and Movement	p. 162
Notes	p. 171
List of Illustrations	p. 199
Photo Credits	p. 209
Index	p. 211
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