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The Beaver Hall Group Author: VARIOUS

ISBN: 9781908966933 Format: Hardcover Number Of Pages: 352 Published: 29 March 2016 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 28.0 x 23.0 x 2.8 Description: 'The Beaver Hall Group: 1920s Modernity' portrays the work of the Montreal-based group of Canadian painters, the Beaver Hall Group. This twentieth-century collective, founded in response to the all-male Group of Seven, was long overlooked by critics and historians alike, but today counts many of its members amongst the most sought-after Canadian painters.

Using the group as a starting point, the book launches into investigations into such wide-reaching topics as the metropolis and modernity, juxtapositions between economic progress and cultural development as social equality, and the role of gender in approaches to artists and their work.

Divided into three sections, 'The Beaver Hall Group: 1920s Modernity' comprises of several contextual essays, beginning with the history of Beaver Hall Hill and the influence of its location in the city of Montreal. The reader is then taken through the progress of the Beaver Hall Group and the central part they played within modernity in Canada. Through an examination of documented exhibitions, press coverage, photographs and key works from the period, the book gives a fascinating insight into the reach of t...

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