London Regionalism
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London Regionalism is a Canadian art movement that developed in the late 1950s and 1960s in London, Ontario, Canada. Artists in the movement included Greg Curnoe, Tony Urquhart, Murray Favro, Ron Martin and Jack Chambers.
The movement was composed of a group of artists who acknowledged their home as the centre and subject of creative activity; who acknowledged yet refused to situate themselves in the art world of the metropolitan centre; who refused to participate in ‘movements’. In fact, the term "regionalism" was adopted by the community in a spirit of defiance after a Toronto critic used it in a derisive way to describe the scene. The movement is jokingly referred to as not an "ism" at all, but "a group of artists who had decided to stay home."[1]
As
Greg Curnoe stated in 1983 that London Regionalism was in no way related to 1930s
Art historian Mark Cheetham maintains that Jack Chambers's "theory of 'perceptual realism' challenges parochial notions of regionalism."[6] Chambers "was closely involved with the London art scene [but] was trained in Spain and kept his eye on the work of friends there. His reputation as an avant-garde filmmaker was international, and his constant technical experimentation was in line with developments in the United States."[7]
By the late sixties, the movement became an object of interest for Canadian art critics. In
References
- ^ Bindi, Irene. "The Films of Jack Chambers" (PDF). The Winnipeg Film Group. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 December 2013. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
- ^ Heath, Terrence (2001). "The Trojan Bicycle: Greg Curnoe's Life & Stuff". Border Crossings. 20 (2).
- ISBN 978-1-4871-0101-5.
- ISBN 978-1-4871-0101-5.
- ISBN 978-1-4871-0101-5.
- ^ Cheetham, Mark. Jack Chambers: Life & Work. Toronto: Art Canada Institute, 2013. E-Book, 28.
- ^ Cheetham, Mark. Jack Chambers: Life & Work. Toronto: Art Canada Institute, 2013. E-Book, 31.
- ^ Lord, Barry (Sep–Oct 1969). "What London, Ontario Has that Everywhere Else Needs". Art in America. 57 (5): 103–105.