Gerald Ferguson: Thinking of Painting (Gaspereau Field Guides to Canadian Artists)

by Ray Cronin

Painter and conceptual artist Gerald Ferguson (1937-2009) played a central role in transforming Halifax's Nova Scotia College of Art and Design into one of North America's leading art schools in the 1970s. Skirting easy categorization, his work pursued a conflicted, anti-romantic, 'tough' school of high modernism, one that directly challenged the historical context within which paintings had been made, collected and discussed for centuries. Internationally...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554471877
• ISBN13: 9781554471874
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Gaspereau Pr
• Length: 61 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.3" x 5.0"