Paul-Émile BorduasFrom his beginnings as a rural church decorator, to his role as catalyst of the social and artistic manifesto the Refus global, to a career as Canada's pre eminent practitioner of radical abstraction abroad, Paul mile Borduas's short life encompassed the reversals and contradictions of the modern condition. Drawing on a lifetime of published research, Franois Marc Gagnon's comprehensive biography is a far reaching exploration of a Quebec cultural