Publisher's Synopsis
The artistic career of Sorel Etrog is multifaceted, spanning diverse media and stretching over four decades of creativity. Although widely recognized as Canada's leading sculptor, Etrog's conception of the human form is nowhere more comprehensively revealed than in a tightly focused group of paintings and drawings produced between 1974-75. When an artist thinks in another media, the inner world of creativity is glimpsed from a new perspective.;This book explores the interface between key sculptures and this crucial body of two-dimensional work that represents a mid-point in Etrog's career - consolidating his stylized human forms of the 1960s and anticipating the technological motifs of the 1980s.;In the main essay, "Sorel Etrog and the Post-Mechanical Mind", art historian and curator, David Moos analyzes Etrog's painting in relation to his seminal experimental film, "Spiral" (1975), constructing a context for the imagery that stretches from architecture to absurdist drama, from modernist sculpture to the environments of cyberspace.;The book also includes: two previously published texts Marshall McLuhan wrote for Etrog exhibitions; a dialogue between the artist and McLuhan; and a comprehensively illustrated chronology that narrates Etrog's diverse undertakings in sculpture, painting, cinema and theatre.
