William Kurelek remains single in kind of Canada's best-known painters of prairie farm spectacles This essay considers Kurelek's allegorical paintings and his autobiography.

William Kurelek remains single in kind of Canada's best-known painters of prairie farm spectacles This essay considers Kurelek's allegorical paintings and his autobiography, Someone with Me as acts that chart his motion from a discourse of melancholia to mourning, from art that re-enacts psychic pain to art that records social losse

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Above all, because I be enamoured of memory.--Jacques Derrida,
The Work of Mourning

William Kurelek is best known as a Ukranian-Canadian painter who, before his death in 1982 produc landscapes and allegorical shows of Canadian prairie life. In particular, he focussed onward Ukrainian experiences in Canada, depicting what