Source/Derivations: Allan Harding MacKay

202 pp. with biography and 105 B/W illustrations. Inscribed by Allan Harding MacKay to a colleague "as promised" and dated 1999 on half-title page. Lower corner of front cover slightly curled. ". the first full-length monograph on the important contemporary Canadian artist Allan Harding MacKay. Its focus is the series of installations in which MacKay pays homage to fellow art-makers past and present, spinning mixed-media variations on potent source images, such as Tom Thomson's NORTHERN RIVER, Lawren Harris's ISOLATION PEAK, and Ron Benner's AS DARK AS THE GRAVE WHEREIN MY FRIEND IS LAID (the title of which alludes to a posthumously published Malcolm Lowry novel). These complex, multi-layered works challenge such loaded notions as 'original' and 'originality,' while leading us back to the true fons et origo of creative so(u)rcery itself.".