Paul-Émile Borduas, Le Refus global [Total Refusal]

Suzette Ali (Université de Quebec, Montreal)

Ed. by Emir Delic, Université Sainte-Anne
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.4: Canadian Writing and Culture: Francophone .
Vol. editors: Emir Delic (Université Sainte-Anne), Eftihia Mihelakis (Brandon University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

First circulation or publication Aug 1948

Places

Canada (Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Non-Fiction
- Essay Collection

Resources

Refus global or Total Refusal is a manifesto composed of artistic texts and lithographs, and published in Montreal by the Éditions Mythra-Mythe on August 9, 1948. The richness and multidisciplinary nature of this work are the result of the collaboration of several automatist artists from Quebec. Among them are: Paul-Émile Borduas, a painter and the author of the first three texts in the collection, the most famous of which is the eponymous manifesto “Refus global”; Claude Gauvreau, poet and playwright, who wrote three theatrical texts; and finally Bruno Cormier, Françoise Sullivan and Fernand Leduc, who enriched the collection with three other theoretical and poetic articles. The cover o…

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Citation: Ali, Suzette. "Le Refus global". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 14 August 2018 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35852, accessed 16 April 2024.]

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