Kurelek a Biography

by Patricia Morley

Author Patricia Morley explores Kurelek's lifelong conflict with his patriarchal Ukrainian-born father, and struggles to assert himself as an artist; his difficult years in two English psychiatric hospitals; his sudden conversion to Catholicism in his late twenties and his rapid rise to fame.

Paperback

Published December 13, 2016

Reviews

[Joel]

Essential reading if you want to understand Kurelek; much more detailed than his autobiography. Utterly fascinating portrait of a conflicted and talented Canadian artist.