Biography & Autobiography Artists, Architects, Photographers
Alex Colville
The Observer Observed
- Publisher
- ECW Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 1994
- Category
- Artists, Architects, Photographers
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550222067
- Publish Date
- Apr 1994
- List Price
- $14.95
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Description
Charting the prodigious life and career of one of Canada's best-known artists, this illustrated biography shows Alex Colville as both artist and public figure, engaging many worlds at once—from painting and politics to creativity and business. He has been given some of the highest honors for his art, but he has also been charged with misogyny, opportunism, and crowd-pleasing. This compelling profile ultimately attempts to answer the question, Where is the truth among all these contradictions?
About the author
Mark A. Cheetham is Professor of Art History at the University of Toronto. His most recent books include Abstract Art Against Autonomy: Infection, Resistance, and Cure Since the 60s and Artwriting, Nation, and Cosmopolitanism in Britain: The “Englishness” of English Art Theory since the Eighteenth Century.