Miller Brittain: When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears

by Tom Smart

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Miller Gore Brittain (1912-1968) had an unerring sense of structure and composition. In the early 1930s, at the Art Students' League in New York, he experienced the pivotal moment in American art: the shift from tradition to abstract expressionism. When he returned to Canada, the Group of Seven still defined Canadian art, and he burst upon the scene with emotion-filled drawings and paintings of the human form. Later, combining figuration and abstraction, he explored the limits of the body and the borderlands of sanity to express the depths of despair and the heights of ecstasy.

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  • ISBN10 0864924836
  • ISBN13 9780864924834
  • Publish Date 1 April 2007
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country CA
  • Imprint Goose Lane Editions
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 180
  • Language English