{"product_id":"the-arts-in-canada-the-last-fifty-years-9780802064257","title":"The Arts in Canada: The Last Fifty Years","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): William Keith | Ben-Z Shek\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Canadian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this volume a baker's dozen of creative Canadians make personal responses to the state of the arts in Canada: Northrop Frye and Guy Rocher write on general cultural trends; Hugh MacLennan and G�rard Bessette on fiction; Ralph Gustafson and Mich�le Lalonde on poetry; Robertson Davies and Gratien G�linas on drama; George Woodcock and Jacques Allard on non-fiction prose; Godfrey Ridout on music, and Aba Bayefsky and Humphrey N. Milnes on art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essays were written to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the \u003cem\u003eUniversity of Toronto Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e. The contributors were invited to discuss the changes, problems, challenges, and achievements in the arts in the last fifty years. Since all the authors had personal experience of at least a large section of the period surveyed, the editors welcomed personal reminiscence as well as description and assessment. The result is a varied group of essays in each of which the character of the individual artist is clearly evident; together, they provide a complex, many-faceted, lively, and living discussion of the cultural development of Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis anniversary collection of essays is a valuable and provocative source for courses in Canadian studies and for anyone interested in the development of the arts and humanities in Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47592178483351,"sku":"9780802064257","price":2691.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780802064257.webp?v=1774976685","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-arts-in-canada-the-last-fifty-years-9780802064257","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}