Bertram Brooker
When We Awake!
Michael Parke-Taylor
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- LANDMARK PUBLICATION: This is the first comprehensive presentation of Brooker’s work in almost half a century, and will be the most complete treatment of his work to date.
- GROUP OF SEVEN CONNECTION: Brooker's art criticism helped give early exposure to the Group of Seven, an internationally recognized group of Canadian landscape painters, whom he later exhibited with.
- IMPORTANT FIGURE IN CANADIAN ARTS AND MEDIA: Brooker's writing on advertising influenced Marshall McLuhan, and his novel, Think of the Earth, was the first novel to win the Governor General’s award for fiction in 1936.
