Halifax Harbour 1918 / Le Port d'Halifax 1918: Harold Gillman & Arthur Lismer Paperback -
by Anabelle Kienle Poňka (Editor)
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In the year after Halifax was devastated by the Explosion, Harold Gilman and Arthur Lismer were working in the city as war artists. Commissioned by the Canadian War Memorials Fund to record the war activity on the home front, the two men struck up a friendship and sketched side-by-side on occasion.
With the effects of the Explosion still clearly visible, Gilman and Lismer turned their attention to the busy harbour. Gilman wiped clean the desolation, ignoring the site of a human-made disaster in favour of a serene landscape. His large-scale painting, Halifax Harbour, was his most ambitious canvas and his last undertaking before his early death in 1919. In contrast, Lismer, a founding member of the Group of Seven, recorded the lively activity of the busy naval hub, producing dynamic paintings, prints, and drawings of camouflaged battleships cruising through the Maritime seascape.
Halifax Harbour 1918 examines the genesis of Gilman and Lismer's evocative and powerful responses to the First World War.
C'est un an apr�s l'explosion qui a provoqu� la d�vastation d'Halifax qu'Harold Gilman et Arthur Lismer deviennent artistes de guerre dans la ville. Les deux hommes se lient d'amiti� en faisant ensemble des esquisses � l'occasion pour le Fonds de souvenirs de guerre canadiens, qui leur a demand� d'immortaliser les activit�s militaires sur le front int�rieur.
Les effets de l'explosion encore visibles, l'attention de Gilman et de Lismer se dirige toutefois sur le port anim�. Gilman ignore la d�solation, car il choisit de repr�senter ce site dans un paysage lumineux et non comme un lieu marqu� par une catastrophe humaine. Sa tr�s grande toile Le port d'Halifax est l'une de ses plus ambitieuses et la derni�re r�alis�e avant sa mort pr�matur�e en 1919. Quant � Lismer, qui figure parmi les fondateurs du Groupe des Sept, il rend compte des activit�s portuaires florissantes, en r�alisant une s�rie dynamique de tableaux, de dessins et d'estampes int�grant les navires en camouflage aux paysages marins des Maritimes.
Le port d'Halifax 1918 examine la mani�re �vocatrice et puissante avec laquelle Gilman et Lismer ont d�peint la Premi�re Guerre mondiale et l'origine de cette r�ponse.
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- Title Halifax Harbour 1918 / Le Port d'Halifax 1918: Harold Gillman & Arthur Lismer
- Author Anabelle Kienle Poňka (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 124
- Volumes 1
- Language FRE
- Publisher Goose Lane Editions
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781773100876 / 1773100874
- Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 9.9 x 8.8 x 0.6 in (25.15 x 22.35 x 1.52 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Lismer, Arthur, Gilman, Harold John Wilde
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018400726
- Dewey Decimal Code 970.980
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