dc.date.accessioned	2011-12-14T22:33:46Z
dc.date.available	2011-12-14T22:33:46Z
dc.date.issued	2011
dc.description	Series: Art in profile; 10	eng
dc.description.abstract	Eric Cameron is a major contemporary Canadian artist. Born in 1935 in Leicester, England, he arrived in Canada in the 1970s and has taught at the University of Guelph, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and at the University of Calgary. Over the years Cameron has also continued to work in his primary medium, painting, but moved from traditional figuration to a highly conceptual practice with both his process paintings and his "thick" paintings. He has also expanded into video and has written a great deal about his work. His inspired teaching and unusual art have been recognized with major awards, including the Victor Lynch-Staunton Award (1993), the Gershorn Iskowitz Prize (1994), and the Governor General's Award (2004). Despite Cameron's prominence, much of the writing about him is by the artist himself. Cover and Uncover makes a major contribution to the field as it explores Eric Cameron's art and philosophy. The book is composed of four essays, each covering a different aspect of Cameron's art, starting with Peggy Gale's analysis of his writing, then turning to Ann Davis's consideration of his process paintings and his philosophy, moving to Diana Nemiroff's review of his videos, and concluding with Thierry de Duve's observations on his Thick Paintings and his blind rejection of chance. The essays, though written independently, resonate with each other so that the reader comes away with a full picture of a complex artist, his life, his thought, his art production, and how these elements inform each other and have evolved through time. The expert commentary here, richly illustrated with Cameron's works in multiple media, provides a vital and long overdue critical lens through which to view this important artist.	en_US
dc.description.refereed	Yes	eng
dc.identifier.citation	"Cover and Uncover: Eric Cameron". Ann Davis, Ed. Series: Art in profile 10, University of Calgary Press, Calgary, Alberta, 2011.	eng
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/34551
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-55238-535-7
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/48846
dc.language.iso	eng	eng
dc.publisher	University of Calgary Press	eng
dc.publisher.url	http://press.ucalgary.ca/	eng
dc.rights	Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 3.0 Unported	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/	*
dc.subject	Cameron, Eric, 1935- —Criticism and interpretation	eng
dc.subject	Painters—Canada—Biography	eng
dc.subject	Cameron, Eric, 1935-.	eng
dc.subject	Artists—Canada—Biography.	eng
dc.title	Cover and uncover: Eric Cameron	eng
dc.type	book

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