Edwin Holgate
Edwin Headley Holgate
Edwin Holgate was born Aug 19 1892 BirthOntario, Canada.
Died May 21 1977 deathMontreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Edwin Holgate occupies a very special place in the history of Québec art. Versed in painting, sketching and engraving.
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Edwin Headley Holgate served with the 5th Canadian Division Artillery in France during the First World War. During the Second World War he was commissioned as an official war artist with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He continued to be an active painter until the time of his death in 1977.
Edwin Holgate was born in Allandale, Ontario. When he was three years old, his family moved to Jamaica where his father worked as an engineer. At the age of five, Holgate returned to Toronto to live with relatives and to begin his schooling…
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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
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South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success... |
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James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. “Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon |
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