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“The Dignity of Every Human Being” studies the vibrant New Brunswick artistic community which challenged “the tyranny of the Group of Seven” with socially-engaged realism in the 1930s and 40s.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Part I: Art and Democracy

Introduction

The Atmosphere: Art and Politics in Canadian Magazines, 1935-1939

Walter Abell, Canadian Culture, and the Maritime Push

Part II: The Collective Dream in New Brunswick Art

Saint John

Two “Giants”: “Pro-Artists” Jack Humphrey and Miller Brittain

Artists are like this: Common interests of the “Crowd”

Arising from the Thirties Dream: Saint John Artists and the Postwar Period



Notes

About the author

Kirk Niergarth is an assistant professor in the Department of Humanities at Mount Royal University.

Summary

“The Dignity of Every Human Being” studies the vibrant New Brunswick artistic community which challenged “the tyranny of the Group of Seven” with socially-engaged realism in the 1930s and 40s.

Product details

• Authors: Kirk Niergarth
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.02.2015
• EAN: 9781442613898
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-1389-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Canadian Social History Series; Canadian Social History Series; Canadian Social History
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history