Alex Colville

Charting the prodigious life and career of one of Canada's best-known artists, this illustrated biography shows Alex Colville as both artist and public figure, engaging many worlds at oncefrom painting and politics to creativity and business. He has been given some of the highest honors for his art, but he has also been charged with misogyny, opportunism, and crowd-pleasing. This compelling profile ultimately attempts to answer the question,Where is the truth among all these contradictions?

Mark A. Cheetham is a professor of visual arts at the University of Western Ontario.