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Biography & Autobiography Artists, Architects, Photographers

Alex Colville

The Observer Observed

by (author) Mark Cheetham

Publisher
ECW Press
Initial publish date
Apr 1994
Category
Artists, Architects, Photographers
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550222067
    Publish Date
    Apr 1994
    List Price
    $14.95

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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.

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