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The story of Canadian creativity continues. Creative Canada, Volume 2 picks up where the first volume left off, profiling more of the twentieth-century artists — painters, musicians, performers, and makers — who enriched Canada's cultural life. Like its companion volume, this University of Toronto Press biographical dictionary offers concise, carefully researched portraits of the people behind the country's artistic achievements — the painters, sculptors, musicians, dancers, and actors whose work deserves to be remembered.
It is the kind of reference book that invites browsing: look up one name and stay for a dozen more, each entry opening a window onto a life devoted to art. That browsing quality is the point. A biographical dictionary like this one does not argue a thesis; it accumulates lives, and the accumulation becomes the argument — that Canada's twentieth century was made, in no small part, by people working in studios, rehearsal rooms, and concert halls across the country. Whether you are tracing the career of a favorite performer or discovering forgotten figures who shaped their fields, you will find entries that are short enough to read in minutes and substantial enough to send you looking for the work itself.
The volume's real delight is discovery. Every reader will find names they know, but the entries that stay with you are often the ones you did not expect: a sculptor, a dancer, or a musician whose career opens up a corner of Canadian culture you had never considered. Because each portrait is concise and carefully sourced, you can follow those discoveries outward — to recordings, exhibitions, and further reading — with confidence that the starting point was solid.
Volume 2 is an essential companion for students, researchers, and lovers of Canadian arts. Flip through the pages and meet the remarkable artists who made Canada's century creative — and keep this trusted reference close at hand. Get the ebook edition at a discount from Tellebook.
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