Kurelek's Vision of Canada
- Publisher
- The Robert McLaughlin Gallery
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1982
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781926589558
- Publish Date
- Jan 1982
- List Price
- $0
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"In the midst of Canada's love affair with abstract art, Kurelek remained sturdily representational, alternating anecdotal scenes from his prairie boyhood with savagely realistic depictions of the sin and corruption he saw everywhere around him. ... during his lifetime he painted the length and breadth of Canada. The descriptive power and precision of Kurelek's landscape element, its authenticity, its use as both compositional armature and conveyor of emotional content, unifies his work."Exerpts from Kurelek's autobiography are included in Appendix I: Reminiscences.