Edmund Morris: Frontier Artist by Jean S. McGill american art books Peter Macnair

Peter Macnair

this volume covers a half-century of the artist's forays into the genre

offersthe widest-ranging view out there on how an Anglo-Saxon backwater terrified of people going to bars on Sundays transforms itself into a multicultural metropolis that raises up more than its share of beloved artists

an unflinching insider account by a leading curator who has spent years learning how to balance these controversial considerations

his early exposure to the worlds of burlesque and jazz

Edmund Morris: Frontier Artist by Jean S. McGill american art books Peter MacnairEdmund Morris: Frontier Artist by Jean S. McGill 8vo. pp. 208. 8 colour & many b w illustrations. chronology. bibliography. index. hardcover boards. dw. Toronto & Charlottetown: Dundurn Press, 1984. New. ISBN 10: 0919670792 ISBN 13: 9780919670792 ________________________________________________________________________________________________ This illustrated biographyis the first full length study of a pioneering Canadian artist and his brief but