A modern life : art and design in British Columbia, 1945-1960

Elder, Alan C., 1955- (Added Author). Vancouver Art Gallery (Added Author).

Summary: In 1949, the forest magnate, H.R. MacMillan, opened an exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery entitled "Design for Living," a show which brought together design and artistic communities to create four imaginary households for postwar Vancouverites. It also heralded an unprecedented level of cooperation between the province's industry and its artists and craftspeople-a relationship that seemed to hold great promise for the development of art, furniture, and craft in BC. The celebration of the cooperative spirit between "architects, artists and designers," between "potters, weavers and gardeners" is central to A Modern Life, which examines the coming together of what were often very separate disciplines in post-World War II British Columbia, as well as the trend-setting design and use of materials that developed in the province, and the impact these had on the more traditional art community.

Record details

ISBN: 1551521717
Physical Description: print
175 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cm.
Publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver Art Gallery : Arsenal Pulp Press, c2004.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Catalog of an exhibition held at the Vancouver Art Gallery, May 15-Oct. 3, 2004.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Artists included: Francoise Andre -- Sybil Andrews -- Peter Aspell -- Alistair Macready Bell -- Bertram Charles Binning -- Brunislaw (Bruno) Josephus Bobak -- Molly Lamb Bobak -- Alice Bradbury -- Stanley brunst -- Robin bush -- Robert Calvert -- Jean Clarke -- Stanley Clarke -- Peter Cotton -- Reginald Dixon -- Murray Dunne -- Lilias Marianne Ar de Soif Farley -- Orville Norman Fisher -- Herbert Gilbert -- Jack Hardman -- Lawren Stewart Harris -- Edward John Hughes -- Robert Hume -- Patricia K. Irwin -- Donald Alvin Jarvis -- Thomas Kakinuma -- Barbara Ann Kipling -- Zoltan Kiss -- Roy Kenzie Kiyooka -- John Koerner -- William Koochin -- George Kuthan -- Beatrice Lennie -- Eric Loewe -- James (Jock) Williamson Galloway Macdonald -- Sasha Makovkin -- Rex Mason -- Mouldcraft Plywoods -- Earle A Morrison -- Wayne Ngan -- Norman Antony (Toni) Onley -- Leonard Osborne -- Mary Osborne -- Frank Perry -- Margaret Peterson -- Joe Plaskett -- Paul Rand -- Hilda ross -- Jack Leonard Shadbolt -- David Shilleto -- Herbert Siebner -- Douglas C. Simpson -- Gordon Appelbe Smith -- Strahan and Sturhan -- Takao Tanabe -- Ronald James Thom -- Lionel Thomas -- William Percy Weston -- James Sidney Harold Willer.