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Art Canadian

1953

with Ihor Holubizky & Robert McKaskell

introduction by David Aurandt

Publisher
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery
Initial publish date
Jan 2003
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780921500827
    Publish Date
    Jan 2003
    List Price
    $20

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Description

In 1953, the Toronto-based group Painters Eleven to presented their Abstracts at Home show to the Toronto public. The exhibition "1953" demonstrates that the spirit that drove them can be illuminated against a background of other changes, developments and innovations in science, technology and society. Its subject is history itself - not that which has been idealized, but a history of the people. Compression and fluidity, and contradiction, serve as operating metaphors for this exhibition. It presents the diversity of a year through a variety of experiences and shows the context in which abstract painting found a home in English-speaking Canada.

About the authors

Ihor Holubizky is an art historian and curator. He has held several public gallery curatorial positions, including curator at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, and the Art Gallery of Hamilton and has been guest curator for retrospective exhibitions of Don Jean-Louis, Walter Tandy Murch, and Kazao Nakamura at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa. Holubizky holds a PhD in art history from the University of Queensland, Australia, and has contributed writing to numerous publications on historical, modern, and contemporary topics in art and culture in North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. He lectures on a wide range of topics across Canada, the United States, Brazil, and Australia.

Ihor Holubizky's profile page

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