Alan Caswell Collier, relief stiff: an artist's letters from depression-era British Columbia

"Alan Caswell Collier was one of Canada's most admired and successful landscape painters, but during the Depression he worked alongside other single, unemployed men in government-run relief camps. Labouring for twenty cents a day, he detailed camp life and politics in letters to his fiancé...

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1. Verfasser: Collier, Alan 1911-1990 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Neary, Peter 1938- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Vancouver ; Toronto UBC Press [2018]
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Zusammenfassung:"Alan Caswell Collier was one of Canada's most admired and successful landscape painters, but during the Depression he worked alongside other single, unemployed men in government-run relief camps. Labouring for twenty cents a day, he detailed camp life and politics in letters to his fiancée and depicted fellow "relief stiffs" and the BC landscape in character sketches and paintings. Incisive and candid, his letters reveal a born contrarian with a strong sense of social superiority over his fellow "twenty centers." But his letters also offer a fresh perspective on the hopes and dreams of a beloved Ontario artist and of the generation who came of age at a time of economic upheaval and class conflict."--
Beschreibung:xiii, 351 Seiten Illustrationen, Karte, Porträts 24 cm
ISBN:9780774834988

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