Bringing Art to Life A Biography of Alan Jarvis 1st Edition by Andrew Horrall 0773535748 9780773535749

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ISBN 10: 0773535748

ISBN 13: 9780773535749

Author: Andrew Horrall

Only thirty-nine when he took over the National Gallery in 1955, Jarvis already had an extraordinary record of achievement and social mobility at home and in England: he had trained with Canada’s greatest artists, won a Rhodes scholarship, lunched at the Algonquin Round Table in New York, managed an aircraft factory, written a bestseller, produced films, run a slum settlement, and moved in a London social circle that included Noël Coward and Vivien Leigh. As head of the National Gallery, Jarvis was a provocative public educator, advocating his idea of “a museum without walls” in countless public appearances. Instrumental in bringing modern art to the National Gallery, he shook artists and the art-minded public out of a period of national complacency. This first detailed account of the controversy surrounding his time at the gallery provides an important context for the ongoing and contested role of publicly supported arts and art institutions in this country.

Bringing Art to Life A Biography of Alan Jarvis 1st Table of contents:

One: A Walking Work of Art”: Introduction

Two: “A Curiously Mixed Background”: Family and Childhood, 1915–1934

Three: “Douglas Duncan Invented Me”: Undergraduate, 1934–1938

Four: “I May Come Home with an Accent – God Forbid”: Europe, Oxford, and Dartington, 1938–1939

Five: “The Dead Days”: Toronto and New York City, 1939–1941

Six: “Up to My Ears in the Business World”: England, 1942–1945

Seven: “To Build a New Kind of Society”: The Council of Industrial Design, 1945–1947

Eight: “A Break in a Million”: Pilgrim Pictures, 1948–1950

Nine: “I Certainly Hope 1950 Will Be Different”: Oxford House, 1950–1955

Ten: “A Museum without Walls”: The National Gallery of Canada, 1955–1956

Eleven: “A Chamber of Horrors”: The National Gallery of Canada, 1957–1959

Twelve: “Canada’s Most Outspoken and Witty Man About the Arts”: Toronto, 1960–1968

Thirteen: “We Have Lost Our Sheep Dog”: The Last Years, 1968–1972

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