Artist Jock Macdonald: Evolving Form Hardcover Book

256 pages 11 x 9.5 inches 118 colour and 32 black and white illustrations - 2014 ISBN 9781908966810 Hardcover Vancouver Art Gallery and Black Dog Publishing Jock Macdonald was a pioneer of postwar abstraction in Canada. This retrospective publication of the Scottish-born and Canada-based artist’s work offers a lively presentation of a career that spanned the country and greatly influenced twentieth century Canadian art. Featuring his iconic canvases as well as never-before-seen colour reproductions of the artist’s work, this lavishly illustrated volume traces the dramatic transformations that occurred throughout Macdonald’s artistic development—from his early painting career in Vancouver to his move toward abstraction in the thirties, his extraordinary automatics of the forties and his later paintings produced as part of the Toronto-based collective of modernist artists, Painters Eleve