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Title David Alexander : the shape of place / edited by Liz Wylie
Published Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 107 pages) : color illustrations
Contents Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Plates -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Landscape Is the Evidence -- Landscape, Nature: David Alexander -- David Alexander, and Being Surrounded by Things We Have Not Made -- A Land of Water -- An Other Iceland: Musings on the Alexander Landscape -- The Marvel and the Menace: David Alexander Talks about Landscape -- Chronology -- David Alexander Bibliography -- Exhibitions and Collections -- Contributors
Summary It can be easy to consider landscape painting as cliche, an art form whose time has passed. David Alexander's vibrant, large-scale works show the wonder and possibility that remain undiminished in paintings of the natural environment and breathe new life into the landscape tradition
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Subject Alexander, David, 1947- -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Alexander, David, 1947- fast
Subject Landscape painting, Canadian.
Painting, Canadian -- 20th century.
ART -- History -- General.
Landscape painting, Canadian
Painting, Canadian
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Wylie, Liz
Kelowna Art Gallery.
LC no. 2014498968
ISBN 9780773587243
0773587241
1283583852
9781283583855
Other Titles Shape of place