The Visual Arts in Canada: The Twentieth Century charts the developments in Canadian art from the late-nineteenth century to the present with new essays by the country's leading art historians. The first of its kind ever published, this comprehensive overview embraces painting, sculpture, photography, design, video, and conceptual and cross-disciplinary art as well as studies of art institutions and historiography.
The Visual Arts in Canada: The Twentieth Century charts the developments in Canadian art from the late-nineteenth century to the present with new essays by the country's leading art historians. The first of its kind ever published, this comprehensive overview embraces painting, sculpture, photography, design, video, and conceptual and cross-disciplinary art as well as studies of art institutions and historiography.
Anne Whitelaw is associate professor in the Department of Art History at Concordia University. Her research explores the history of Canadian art institutions in the twentieth century, with a particular focus on exhibition and collecting practices as means of understanding the formation of nationhood and the constitution of taste cultures. Brian Foss is professor of Art History and director of the School for Studies in Art and Culture at Carleton University, having previously taught for many years at Concordia University. He has co-curated exhibitions on the work of Mary Hiester Reid and Edwin Holgate and is the author of War Paint: Art, War, State and Identity in Britain 1939-45. Sandra Paikowsky is a professor in the Art History Department of Concordia University. She is the publisher and managing editor of the Journal of Canadian Art History / Annales d'histoire de l'art canadien. She has also been director/curator of the Concordia Art Gallery. Her recent publications focus on James Wilson Morrice, art in the Maritimes, and John Fox.
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* Abbreviations: Collections Cited * Contributors * Acknowledgements * 1. Anne Whitelaw: Art Institutions in the Twentieth Century: Framing Canadian Visual Culture * 2. Brian Foss: Into the New Century: Painting, c.1890-1914 * 3. Charles C. Hill: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven * 4. Gerta Moray: Emily Carr: Modernism, Cultural Identity, and Ethnocultural Art History * 5. Alan C. Elder: Designing Canada * 6. Lora Senechal Carney: Modern Art, the Local, and the Global, c.1930-50 * 7. Sandra Paikowsky: Modernist Representational Painting before 1950 * 8. François-Marc Gagnon: Paul-Émile Borduas and the Automatistes * 9. Joyce Zemans: Making Painting Real: Abstract and Non-objective Art in English Canada, c.1915-61 * 10. Ingo Hessel: A Culture in Transition: Inuit Art in the Twentieth Century * 11. Diana Nemiroff: Geometric Abstraction after 1950 * 12. Christine Boyanoski: Sculpture before 1960 * 13. Johanne Sloan: The New Figuration: From Pop to Postmodernism * 14. Martha Langford: A Short History of Photography, 1900-2000 * 15. William Wood: Sculpture and Installation since 1960 * 16. Jayne Wark: Conceptual Art in Canada: Capitals, Peripheries, and Capitalism * 17. Ruth B. Phillips: Aboriginal Modernities: First Nations Art, c.1880-1970 * 18. Lee-Ann Martin: Contemporary First Nations Art since 1970: Individual Practices and Collective Activism * 19. Christine Ross: Experimental Video in Canada and the Question of Identity * 20. Laurier Lacroix: Writing Art History in the Twentieth Century * List of Resources * Picture Index / Credits * General Index
* Abbreviations: Collections Cited * Contributors * Acknowledgements * 1. Anne Whitelaw: Art Institutions in the Twentieth Century: Framing Canadian Visual Culture * 2. Brian Foss: Into the New Century: Painting, c.1890-1914 * 3. Charles C. Hill: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven * 4. Gerta Moray: Emily Carr: Modernism, Cultural Identity, and Ethnocultural Art History * 5. Alan C. Elder: Designing Canada * 6. Lora Senechal Carney: Modern Art, the Local, and the Global, c.1930-50 * 7. Sandra Paikowsky: Modernist Representational Painting before 1950 * 8. François-Marc Gagnon: Paul-Émile Borduas and the Automatistes * 9. Joyce Zemans: Making Painting Real: Abstract and Non-objective Art in English Canada, c.1915-61 * 10. Ingo Hessel: A Culture in Transition: Inuit Art in the Twentieth Century * 11. Diana Nemiroff: Geometric Abstraction after 1950 * 12. Christine Boyanoski: Sculpture before 1960 * 13. Johanne Sloan: The New Figuration: From Pop to Postmodernism * 14. Martha Langford: A Short History of Photography, 1900-2000 * 15. William Wood: Sculpture and Installation since 1960 * 16. Jayne Wark: Conceptual Art in Canada: Capitals, Peripheries, and Capitalism * 17. Ruth B. Phillips: Aboriginal Modernities: First Nations Art, c.1880-1970 * 18. Lee-Ann Martin: Contemporary First Nations Art since 1970: Individual Practices and Collective Activism * 19. Christine Ross: Experimental Video in Canada and the Question of Identity * 20. Laurier Lacroix: Writing Art History in the Twentieth Century * List of Resources * Picture Index / Credits * General Index
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