Bringing art to life: a biography of Alan Jarvis
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1. Verfasser: Horrall, Andrew (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Montreal [Que.] McGill-Queen's University Press c2009 (2010)
Schriftenreihe:McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history #2
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Includes bibliographical references and index
1. "A Walking Work of Art": Introduction -- 2. "A Curiously Mixed Background": Family and Childhood, 1915-1934 -- 3. "Douglas Duncan Invented Me": Undergraduate, 1934-1938 -- 4. "I May Come Home with an Accent -- God Forbid": Europe, Oxford, and Darrington, 1938-1939 -- 5. "The Dead Days": Toronto and New York City, 1939-1941 -- 6. "Up to My Ears in the Business World": England, 1942-1945 -- 7. "To Build a New Kind of Society": The Council of Industrial Design, 1945-1947 -- 8. "A Break in a Million": Pilgrim Pictures, 1948-1950 -- 9. "I Certainly Hope 1950 Will Be Different": Oxford House, 1950-1955 -- 10. "A Museum without Walls": The National Gallery of Canada, 1955-1956 -- 11. "A Chamber of Horrors": The National Gallery of Canada, 1957-1959 -- 12. "Canada's Most Outspoken and Witty Man About the Arts": Toronto, 1960-1968 -- 13. "We Have Lost Our Sheep Dog": The Last Years, 1968-1972
In 1959, Alan Jarvis - the brilliant and charismatic director of the National Gallery of Canada - was forced to resign following a disagreement with the government over the purchase of works by European Old Masters. He never fully recovered from this dismissal, or the public humiliation that followed, succumbing to alcoholism in a little over a decade
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1282866303
9780773575837
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