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Towards an African Canadian Art History

Author : Aditi Ohri,Julie Crooks,Alexandra Kelebay,Cheryl Thompson,Emilie Boone,Deanna Bowen,Carol Bernadette Duncan,Mercelie Dionne-Petit,Christiana Abraham,Adrienne R. Johnson,Krys Verrall,Alice Ming Wai Jim,Andrea Fatona
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05
Category : Africans
ISBN : 1553223659

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Towards an African Canadian Art History by Aditi Ohri,Julie Crooks,Alexandra Kelebay,Cheryl Thompson,Emilie Boone,Deanna Bowen,Carol Bernadette Duncan,Mercelie Dionne-Petit,Christiana Abraham,Adrienne R. Johnson,Krys Verrall,Alice Ming Wai Jim,Andrea Fatona Pdf

This is the first book to consoloidate the field of African Canadian Art History. In this book, the authors argue for an African Canadian Art History that can simultaneously examine the artistic contributions of black Canadian artists within their unique historical contexts, critique the colonial representation of black subjects by white artists, and contest the customary racial homogeneity of Canadian Art History. Challenging the traditional notions of artistic value, this book examines art, artists, and visual and material culture from the eighteenth century to the present, analyzing "high," "low," and popular art across various media, with a focus to offer a new perspective on Canadian Art History.

Unsettling Canadian Art History

Author : Erin Morton
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780228013280

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Unsettling Canadian Art History by Erin Morton Pdf

Bringing together fifteen scholars of art and culture, Unsettling Canadian Art History addresses the visual and material culture of settler colonialism, enslavement, and racialized diasporas in the contested white settler state of Canada. This collection offers new avenues for scholarship on art, archives, and creative practice by rethinking histories of Canadian colonialisms from Black, Indigenous, racialized, feminist, queer, trans, and Two-Spirit perspectives. Writing across many positionalities, contributors offer chapters that disrupt colonial archives of art and culture, excavating and reconstructing radical Black, Indigenous, and racialized diasporic creation and experience. Exploring the racist frameworks that continue to erase histories of violence and resistance, this book imagines the expansive possibilities of a decolonial future. Unsettling Canadian Art History affirms the importance of collaborative conversations and work in the effort to unsettle scholarship in Canadian art and culture.

Education of African Canadian Children

Author : Awad Ibrahim,Ali A. Abdi
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780773548459

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Education of African Canadian Children by Awad Ibrahim,Ali A. Abdi Pdf

Hundreds of thousands of African Canadian children demand and deserve quality education that promotes success both within and outside of school. Recognizing that the education these young people receive will shape their lives as citizens, the contributors to this volume provide an important, timely analysis of the educational experiences of African Canadian children and youth. With contributions from leading and emerging scholars, The Education of African Canadian Children critically responds to and comments on the historical, cultural, institutional, and informational contexts and problems of the learning lives of these children. The authors offer a comprehensive history of African Canadians’ encounters with the education system, the current challenges they are facing, and opportunities for more inclusive and democratic educational practices that will better serve this population. Advocating for cultural redemption and learning success for a population that is not being served well by Canadian public education systems, this book will benefit teachers, students, government program managers, policy makers, and educational researchers. The first multi-authored work of its kind, The Education of African Canadian Children opens new debates and possibilities for change for those concerned with education in their communities and their country.

Canadian Art

Author : Anne Newlands
Publisher : Willowdale, Ont. : Firefly Books
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015053770742

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Canadian Art by Anne Newlands Pdf

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.

The African Diaspora in Canada

Author : Wisdom Tettey,Korbla P. Puplampu
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781552381755

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The African Diaspora in Canada by Wisdom Tettey,Korbla P. Puplampu Pdf

This book addresses the conceptual difficulties and political contestations surrounding the applicability of the term "African-Canadian". In the midst of this contested terrain, the volume focuses on first generation, Black Continental Africans who have immigrated to Canada in the last four decades, and have traceable genealogical links to the continent.

Whitewalling

Author : Aruna D'Souza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN : 1943263140

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Whitewalling by Aruna D'Souza Pdf

In 2017, the Whitney Biennial included a painting by a white artist, Dana Schutz, of the lynched body of a young black child, Emmett Till. In 1979, anger brewed over a show at New York's Artists Space entitled The Nigger Drawings. In 1969, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition Harlem on My Mind did not include a single work by a black artist. In all three cases, black artists and writers and their allies organized vigorous responses using the only forum available to them: public protest. Whitewalling: Art, Race & Protest in 3 Acts reflects on these three incidents in the long and troubled history of art and race in America. It lays bare how the art world--no less than the country at large--has persistently struggled with the politics of race, and the ways this struggle has influenced how museums, curators and artists wrestle with notions of free speech and the specter of censorship. Whitewalling takes a critical and intimate look at these three "acts" in the history of the American art scene and asks: when we speak of artistic freedom and the freedom of speech, who, exactly, is free to speak? Aruna D'Souza writes about modern and contemporary art, food and culture; intersectional feminisms and other forms of politics; how museums shape our views of each other and the world; and books. Her work appears regularly in 4Columns.org, where she is a member of the editorial advisory board, as well as in publications including the Wall Street Journal, ARTnews, Garage, Bookforum, Momus and Art Practical. D'Souza is the editor of the forthcoming Making it Modern: A Linda Nochlin Reader.

Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica

Author : CharmaineA. Nelson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351548533

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Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica by CharmaineA. Nelson Pdf

Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica is among the first Slavery Studies books - and the first in Art History - to juxtapose temperate and tropical slavery. Charmaine A. Nelson explores the central role of geography and its racialized representation as landscape art in imperial conquest. One could easily assume that nineteenth-century Montreal and Jamaica were worlds apart, but through her astute examination of marine landscape art, the author re-connects these two significant British island colonies, sites of colonial ports with profound economic and military value. Through an analysis of prints, illustrated travel books, and maps, the author exposes the fallacy of their disconnection, arguing instead that the separation of these colonies was a retroactive fabrication designed in part to rid Canada of its deeply colonial history as an integral part of Britain's global trading network which enriched the motherland through extensive trade in crops produced by enslaved workers on tropical plantations. The first study to explore James Hakewill's Jamaican landscapes and William Clark's Antiguan genre studies in depth, it also examines the Montreal landscapes of artists including Thomas Davies, Robert Sproule, George Heriot and James Duncan. Breaking new ground, Nelson reveals how gender and race mediated the aesthetic and scientific access of such - mainly white, male - artists. She analyzes this moment of deep political crisis for British slave owners (between the end of the slave trade in 1807 and complete abolition in 1833) who employed visual culture to imagine spaces free of conflict and to alleviate their pervasive anxiety about slave resistance. Nelson explores how vision and cartographic knowledge translated into authority, which allowed colonizers to 'civilize' the terrains of the so-called New World, while belying the oppression of slavery and indigenous displacement.

Land, Spirit, Power

Author : Diana Nemiroff,Robert Houle,Charlotte Townsend-Gault,National Gallery of Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015029528596

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Land, Spirit, Power by Diana Nemiroff,Robert Houle,Charlotte Townsend-Gault,National Gallery of Canada Pdf

Exhibition catalogue for 'Land, Spirit, Power' at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, in 1992, a collection of contemporary art intended as a response and contribution to current discussions on questions of cultural identity, from the specific perspective of First Nations. Includes three essays, and data on each artist.

Racism, Eh?

Author : Charmaine Nelson,Camille Antoinette Nelson
Publisher : Captus Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1553220617

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Racism, Eh? by Charmaine Nelson,Camille Antoinette Nelson Pdf

"Racism, Eh? is the first publication that examines racism within the broad Canadian context. This anthology brings together some of the visionaries who are seeking to illuminate the topics of race and racism in Canada through the analysis of historical and contemporary issues, which address race and racism as both material and psychic phenomena. Fundamentally interdisciplinary in nature, this text will be an invaluable resource for undergraduate and graduate students, academics studying or practicing within the Humanities and the Social Sciences, and anyone seeking information on what has been a little explored and poorly understood Canadian issue."--pub. desc.

My Brother's Keeper

Author : Bryan Prince
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459705715

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My Brother's Keeper by Bryan Prince Pdf

The stirring story of African Canadians who had fled slavery and oppression in the United States but returned to enlist in the Union forces in the American Civil War.

Other Conundrums

Author : Monika Gagnon
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 1551520923

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Other Conundrums by Monika Gagnon Pdf

Other Conundrums, copublished with Vancouver's Artspeak Gallery and the Kamloops Art Gallery, is an extraordinary collection of essays on Canadian artists of colour by Monika Kin Gagnon, one of Canada's most respected art writers and curators. The essays explore the history of cultural production in this country with an emphasis on race, cultural difference, and cultural hybridity. Using specific artists and exhibitions as a starting-point for Gagnon's discussions, these essays, and the artists she writes about, are firmly grounded in Canadian cultural events, artistic projects, and theoretical ideas concerning race and culture which have circulated in often disparate contexts for the last decade. The book makes a distinctively Canadian contribution to ongoing dialogues on issues of race and culture that have originated from artists, writers, and theorists from the US and Britain, and provides an important and relevatory context to the work of Canada's artists of colour. The book includes numerous colour and black and white images, and a foreword by award-winning writer Larissa Lai (When Fox Is a Thousand). Chapters include overviews of the work of such artists as Shani Mootoo, Paul Wong, Jamelie Hassan, and Dana Claxton. Other Conundrums is an essential snapshot of contemporary issues surrounding race and identity as revealed in visual art.

Museum Pieces

Author : Ruth Bliss Phillips
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780773539051

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Museum Pieces by Ruth Bliss Phillips Pdf

The ways in which Aboriginal people and museums work together have changed drastically in recent decades. This historic process of decolonization, including distinctive attempts to institutionalize multiculturalism, has pushed Canadian museums to pioneer new practices that can accommodate both difference and inclusivity. Ruth Phillips argues that these practices are "indigenous" not only because they originate in Aboriginal activism but because they draw on a distinctively Canadian preference for compromise and tolerance for ambiguity. Phillips dissects seminal exhibitions of Indigenous art to show how changes in display, curatorial voice, and authority stem from broad social, economic, and political forces outside the museum and moves beyond Canadian institutions and practices to discuss historically interrelated developments and exhibitions in the United States, Britain, Australia, and elsewhere. Drawing on forty years of experience as an art historian, curator, exhibition critic, and museum director, she emphasizes the complex and situated nature of the problems that face museums, introducing new perspectives on controversial exhibitions and moments of contestation. A manifesto that calls on us to re-imagine the museum as a place to embrace global interconnectedness, Museum Pieces emphasizes the transformative power of museum controversy and analyses shifting ideas about art, authenticity, and power in the modern museum.

Race & Well-being

Author : Carl James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Blacks
ISBN : 155266354X

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Race & Well-being by Carl James Pdf

Through in-depth qualitative research with African Canadians in three Canadian cities - Calgary, Toronto and Halifax - this book explores how experiences of racism, combined with other social and economic factors, affect the health and well-being of African Canadians.

Representing the Black Female Subject in Western Art

Author : Charmaine A. Nelson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136968068

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Representing the Black Female Subject in Western Art by Charmaine A. Nelson Pdf

This book offers the first concentrated examination of the representation of the black female subject in Western art through the lenses of race/color and sex/gender. Charmaine A. Nelson poses critical questions about the contexts of production, the problems of representation, the pathways of circulation and the consequences of consumption. She analyzes not only how, where, why and by whom black female subjects have been represented, but also what the social and cultural impacts of the colonial legacy of racialized western representation have been. Nelson also explores and problematizes the issue of the historically privileged white artistic access to black female bodies and the limits of representation for these subjects. This book not only reshapes our understanding of the black female representation in Western Art, but also furthers our knowledge about race and how and why it is (re)defined and (re)mobilized at specific times and places throughout history.

Art History in Africa

Author : J. Vansina
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317869030

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Art History in Africa by J. Vansina Pdf

This is a pioneering introduction to a subject that is still at an early srage of academic development. It aims to provide the reader with a systematic method for the historical understanding of African art. Professor Vansina considers the medium, technique, style and meaning of art objects and examines the creative process through which they come into being. Numerous photographs and drawings illustrate his arguments, and help to explain the changes that have taken place.