Description du livre
One of the shared characteristics of the painters from Montreal's Jewish community who were involved in the professional art scene during the 1930s and 1940s is to have been unique witnesses of their time. These artists portrayed their city and iTs working classes, but also the poverty caused by Depression. Several offered personal interpretations of the clashes and confrontations that occured across the world during the rise of Fascism and the Second World War. They also explored different facets of the contemporary human figure, integrating it into an artistic approach rooted in a vision of modernity...