Ivan Eyre

Figure Ground: The Paintings and Drawings of Ivan Eyre
Amy Karlinsky, Mary Reid and Dennis Cooley

This publication documents nearly 50 years of one of Canada's most significant artistic practices. Eyre's exploration of the visual tradition of Western painting and drawing, characterized by modern-day history painting, portraiture and landscape, is highly original. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s he mastered a diverse visual vocabulary incorporating the poignancies of the School of Paris, the morbidity of German Expressionism and the bravado of the Abstract Expressionists. Straddling the modernist/postmodernist divide, style in Eyre's work is not a dogma but a solution to formal and conceptual problems. This publication allows new generations to discover Eyre's panoramic landscapes, urban dystopias and joyous elaborations of dancers and nudes.

The Winnipeg Art Gallery (2005) 140 pp 107 col. ill. 12x8 in hardcover 0-88915-231-4 $30.00 Can./U.S. (24 euros)

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Ivan Eyre: Personal Mythologies/Images of the Milieu
Terrence Heath

Publication of major retrospective of the figurative paintings of Ivan Eyre from 1957 to 1988. In English and French.

The Winnipeg Art Gallery (1989) 146 pp 109 ill. (97 col.) 30 x 30 cm softcover 0889151466 $25.95 (18 euros) / hardcover 0889151482 $35.95 (25 euros)

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