The Garden of Art

Vic Cicansky, Sculptor

By Don Kerr
Categories: Regional & Cultural Studies, Canadian Studies, Art & Performance Studies, Art History
Series: Art in Profile: Canadian Art and Architecture
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Paperback : 9781552381229, 168 pages, October 2004
Ebook (PDF) : 9781552383520, 168 pages, October 2004

Table of contents

 

Victor Cicansky, Prologue

1. Vic at Work
A Basic Chronology

2. Vic at Work
Childhood
Vic the Early Artist
Davis
September 24, 2001—A Day in the Life
Origins
Reputation

3. Vic at Work
Public Works
April 7–8 2002—A Day in the Life
Politics

4. Vic at Work
Analysis
The Future
Notes
Works
List of Works
Solo Exhibitions

Description

Elegant, surreal, erotic, ecological, autobiographical, perpetual, populist, comic! These are the words that describe the work of noted Regina sculptor Victor Cicansky. The book celebrates the voice, life, and art of this prolific prairie-based artist. Nature, tamed or wild, informs everything he makes; worlds we recognize with pleasure, where cabbages are kings. This book is written in a style that is informed by, yet not overburdened with, critical analysis, allowing the art to speak for itself.

Reviews

 

This generously illustrated publication serves as an introduction to Cicansky's humorous and offbeat works of art.

CHOICE Reviews

 

Kerr's writing is descriptive and light . . . The book is consequently accessible and enjoyable to a reader with any level of visual art background.

—Ruth Chambers, Great Plains Quarterly