The Visual Arts In Canada
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Author | : Brian Foss |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
This book charts the developments in Canadian art from the late nineteenth century to the present with new essays by the country's leading art historians. A comprehensive overview, this volume embraces painting, sculpture, photography, design, video, and conceptual and cross-disciplinary art, as well as studies of art institutions and historiography. Each chapter explores the richness and diversity of Canadian art; topics range from impressionist painting to the multimedia work of First Nations artists, and from the Group of Seven to contemporary video production. Newly commissioned, carefully edited, and with 185 full-colour illustrations, The Visual Arts in Canada will appeal to general readers and students alike. An extensive index, as well as an appendix that list galleries and artist-run centres across the country, make this the definitive resource for Canadian art from the past century. Throughout the twenty chapters, readers will recognize favourite artists and encounter new ones-all of whom play an integral role in the country's visual history.
Author | : Joan Murray |
Publisher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1999-11 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1550023322 |
Joan Murray discusses social and political events in combination with the movements, ideas, attitudes, styles, and important groups in Canadian art of this century.
Author | : Anne Newlands |
Publisher | : Willowdale, Ont. : Firefly Books |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
An original overview of Canadian art history that selects 300 representative artists and removes them from their predictable associations juxtaposing them to make new connections. Each artist is featured with a large image and a short engaging text.
Author | : Gerald McMaster |
Publisher | : Canadian Art Library |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2022-03-21 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781487102654 |
Few twentieth-century artists were catalysts for the reclamation of a culture, but Iljuwas Bill Reid (1920-1998) was among them. The first book on the artist by an Indigenous scholar details Reid's incredible journey to becoming one of the most significant Northwest Coast artists of our time. Born in British Columbia and denied his mother's Haida heritage in his youth, Iljuwas Bill Reid lived the reality of colonialism yet tenaciously forged a creative practice that celebrated Haida ways of seeing and making. Over his fifty-year career, he created nearly a thousand original works and dozens of texts, and he is remembered as a passionate artist, community activist, mentor, and writer. Reid was often said to embody the Raven, a trickster who transforms the world. He followed in the footsteps of his great-great-uncle, master Haida artist Daxhiigang (Charles Edenshaw), engaging with a culture whose practices were once banned by the Indian Act and producing symbols for a nation. His iconic large-scale works now occupy sites such as the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C., and the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Reid's legacy is a complex story of power, resilience, and strength. In Iljuwas Bill Reid: Life & Work, acclaimed scholar Gerald McMaster examines how the artist made a critical inquiry into his craft throughout his life, gaining a sense of identity, purpose, and impact.
Author | : Loren Ruth Lerner |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 1646 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780802058560 |
Identifies and summarizes thousands of books, article, exhibition catalogues, government publications, and theses published in many countries and in several languages from the early nineteenth century to 1981.
Author | : Griselda Pollock |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2005-08-12 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1134768508 |
Great collection from for top feminist art historians and thinkers Includes Griselda Pollock and Mieke Bal International perspective focusing on gender and race
Author | : Claude Summers |
Publisher | : Cleis Press Start |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2012-03-23 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1573448745 |
A distinctly queer presence permeates the history of the visual arts — from Michelangelo's David and homoerotic images on ancient Greek vases to Frida Kahlo's self-portraits and the photography of Claude Cahun and Robert Mapplethorpe. The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts is a comprehensive work showcasing the enormous contribution of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer artists to painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and architecture. International in scope, the volume includes overviews of the various periods in art history, from Classical Art to Contemporary Art and from African Art to Erotic and Pornographic Art; discussions of topics ranging from AIDS Activism in the Arts, Censorship in the Arts, and the Arts and Crafts Movement to Pulp Paperbacks and Their Covers; surveys of the representation of various subjects in the visual arts, from Androgyny to Vampires; and biographical entries on significant figures in the history of art, such as Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, El Greco, Leonardo da Vinci, David Hockney, Ruth Bernhard, Rosa Bonheur, Romaine Brooks, Simeon Solomon, and Nahum Zenil. Includes more than 100 illustrations and photographs.
Author | : Allan C. Hutchinson |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780802080264 |
Socially organized activity cannot occur without censorship. Going beyond ideological arguments, this collections of essays explores the extent of censorship in Canada today, the forms censorship takes, and the interests it serves.
Author | : Annie Gérin |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 706 |
Release | : 2011-03-18 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1442697083 |
Arguably, public art is experienced daily by more people than most offerings in galleries, yet our notion of what constitutes public art is surprisingly limited. Public Art in Canada broadens the critical discussion by exploring public art's varied means of engaging with public space and the public sphere. Annie Gérin and James S. McLean have assembled contributions from new and established Canadian scholars, curators, and artists. Each contributor enlivens our understanding of public art as a practice and its place in the social and aesthetic formation of which it is a part. As a result, the book provides an overview of the current debates in the field of public art that are informed by the theories and critical literature of art history, communication studies, cultural studies, sociology, and urban studies. The rigorous essays and original works of art collected in this volume present a compelling demonstration of the strategies, aesthetic and otherwise, used by artists to elicit intellectual, sensual, or emotional responses that can only be obtained through artistic practices in public places. Public Art in Canada is a major contribution to the study of Canadian art and culture.
Author | : Gallery 44 |
Publisher | : YYZ Books |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Photographic criticism |
ISBN | : 0920397417 |
Image and Inscription features the work of many of Canada’s distinguished authors, critics, curators, and artists who are recognized for their contribution to the discourse and practice of photography... it presents the diversity and the changeable milieu of photographic practice and evokes an unanticipated moment in Canadian photography. It also represents an important step in expanding the contemporary authorship on photography in Canada." - adapted from the Introduction by Robert Bean