The Logic of Ecstasy: Canadian Mystical Painting, 1920-1940

by Ann Davis

Book Overview

Twentieth-century art has usually been analysed in terms of intellectual aesthetic principles. But several important artists of this century were motivated less by aesthetic ideas than by spiritual values. Ann Davis considers the work of five of the most dynamic and innovative Canadian painters of the period: Bertram Brooker, Emily Carr, Lawren Harris, Jock Macdonald, and Fred Varley. She shows how these artists strove to work with mystical forms,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802068618
• ISBN13: 9780802068613
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.