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Sigvaldason, Ian.
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Serigraphy, Canadian.
Painting, Canadian -- Reproduction.
Art and war.
Nationalism and art.
Canada -- In art.
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Sigvaldason, Ian.
Serigraphy, Canadian.
Painting, Canadian -- Reproduction.
Art and war.
Nationalism and art.
Canada -- In art.
MARC Display
Art
for
war
and
peace
:
how
a
great
public
art
project
helped
Canada
discover
itself
/ Ian Sigvaldason, Scott Steedman.
by
Sigvaldason, Ian.
Red Leaf, 2015.
Call #:
764.80971 S579a
Subjects
Serigraphy, Canadian.
Painting, Canadian -- Reproduction.
Art
and
war
.
Nationalism and
art
.
Canada
-- In
art
.
ISBN:
9781927018804 (pbk)
9781927018705 (hc)
Alternate title:
War
and
peace
:
how
a
great
public
art
project
helped
Canada
discover
itself
Description:
xiv, 232 p.: colour ill. ; 25 x 31 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"The Sampson-Matthews print program was the largest
public
art
project
in Canadian history. Launched at the start of the Second World
War
, it lasted 22 years and cost tens of millions of dollars. The exquisite, oversize silkscreens were based on designs by a who’s who of Canada’s greatest artists, including David Milne, Emily Carr, B.C. Binning, Lawren Harris and A.Y. Jackson, Tom Thomson, J.W. Morrice and Clarence Gagnon. The idea that launched the
project
was simple. Get Canada’s best painters to contribute to the
war
effort by creating new works, guided by the National Gallery. Toronto printer Sampson-Matthews would turn these into high-quality silkscreens, which would then be sent to every military unit and government office from Britain to Ceylon. At the same time, target the home front: schools, libraries, banks, insurance companies. By 1943, the prints were hanging in Eaton’s store windows from coast to coast. The images were so popular that the program went into overdrive after the
war
. Dozens more artworks were commissioned and tens of thousands more printed. Sets toured the USA, Soviet Russia, war-torn Europe; the Bank of Montreal put them in every branch. The grand landscapes became familiar backdrops for two generations of Canadians. The program was a grandiose exercise in
art
education, a coming together of culture, commerce and patriotism that only a world
war
could ever create. Watch the film Argo and you’ll see two prints in the Tehran embassy scenes, benevolent totems assuring the plotters that everything will be alright; this is
Canada
, relax.
Art
for
War
and
Peace
tells the story of the Sampson-Matthews prints, with full-colour reproductions of 112 silkscreens and contributions from several
art
writers, including Douglas Coupland."--Publisher.
Other authors:
Steedman, Scott.
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