Unsettling Canadian Art History

Author : Erin Morton
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 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.

Author : Gerta Moray
Publisher : University of Washington Press and Ubc Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015064889549

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Unsettling Encounters by Gerta Moray Pdf

Unsettling Encounters radically re-examines Emily Carr's achievement in representing Native life on the Northwest Coast, and her goals and achievements in representing Native villages and totem poles in her paintings and writings. Reconstructing a neglected body of Carr's works that was central in shaping her vision and career makes possible a new assessment of her significance as a leading figure in the history of early twentieth-century Modernism. Unsettling Encounters includes a vivid recreation of the rapidly changing historical and social circumstances in which Carr painted and wrote. She lived and worked in British Columbia at a time when the growing settler population was rapidly taking over and developing the land and its resources. Gerta Moray argues that Carr's work takes on its full significance only when it is seen as a conscious intervention in settler-Native relations. She examines the work in relation to the images of Native peoples that were then being constructed by missionaries and anthropologists and exploited by the promoters of world's fairs and museums. Carr's famous, highly expressive later paintings were based to a great extent on the results of her early experience. At the same time they were a response to new currents in North American culture in the 1920s and 1930s. Moray explores Carr's participation in the Group of Seven's agenda to build a national culture and her sense of her own position as a woman artist in this masculine arena. Unsettling Encounters is the definitive study of Carr's "Indian" images, locating them both within the local context of Canadian history and the wider international currents of visual culture.

Author : Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse,Aldona Jonaitis
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780295747149

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Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast by Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse,Aldona Jonaitis Pdf

Inseparable from its communities, Northwest Coast art functions aesthetically and performatively beyond the scope of non-Indigenous scholarship, from demonstrating kinship connections to manifesting spiritual power. Contributors to this volume foreground Indigenous understandings in recognition of this rich context and its historical erasure within the discipline of art history. By centering voices that uphold Indigenous priorities, integrating the expertise of Indigenous knowledge holders about their artistic heritage, and questioning current institutional practices, these new essays "unsettle" Northwest Coast art studies. Key themes include discussions of cultural heritage protections and Native sovereignty; re-centering women and their critical role in transmitting cultural knowledge; reflecting on decolonization work in museums; and examining how artworks function as living documents. The volume exemplifies respectful and relational engagement with Indigenous art and advocates for more accountable scholarship and practices.

Author : Anne Newlands
Publisher : Willowdale, Ont. : Firefly Books
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,9 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.

Author : Douglas Fetherling,George Fetherling
Publisher : Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1987-03
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X001364155

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Documents in Canadian Art by Douglas Fetherling,George Fetherling Pdf

Author : Leslie Dawn
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780774840620

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National Visions, National Blindness by Leslie Dawn Pdf

In the early decades of the twentieth century, the visual arts were considered central to the formation of a distinct national identity, and the Group of Seven's landscapes became part of a larger program to unify the nation and assert its uniqueness. This book traces the development of this program and illuminates its conflicted history. Leslie Dawn problematizes conventional perceptions of the Group as a national school and underscores the contradictions inherent in international exhibitions showing unpeopled landscapes alongside Northwest Coast Native arts and the "Indian" paintings of Langdon Kihn and Emily Carr. Dawn examines how this dichotomy forced a re-evaluation of the place of First Nations in both Canadian art and nationalism.

Author : Joan Murray
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781459722361

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Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century by Joan Murray Pdf

Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century is a survey of the richest, most controversial and perhaps most thoroughly confusing centuries in the whole history of the visual arts in Canada - the period from 1900 to the present. Murray shows how, beginning with Tonalism at the start of the century, new directions in art emerged - starting with our early Modernists, among them Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. Today, Modernism has lost its dominance. Artists, critics, and the public alike are confronted by a scene of unprecedented variety and complexity. Murray discusses the social and political events of the century in combination with the cultural context; movements, ideas, attitudes, and styles; the important groups in Canadian art, and major and minor artists and their works. Fully documented, well researched and written with clarity and over four hundred illustrations in both black-and-white and colour, Murray’s book is essential for understanding Canadian art of this century. As an introduction, it is excellent in both its scope and intelligence.

Author : Graham McInnes
Publisher : Toronto, Macmillan
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Art
ISBN : WISC:89056198344

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A Short History of Canadian Art by Graham McInnes Pdf

Author : Joan Murray
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781459722378

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Confessions of a Curator by Joan Murray Pdf

In this witty and compelling defence of the art field itself, Joan Murray, one of the country’s most outspoken art historians, discusses the great figures of Canadian art and the rise of our national are in institutions such as the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Author : Dennis R. Reid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Painting, Canadian
ISBN : UCAL:B4971190

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A Concise History of Canadian Painting by Dennis R. Reid Pdf

This edition studies Canadian painting to 1980 in a new chapter that treats a crucial fifteen years when there developed in Canada a tremendous interest in other art forms and an apparent falling off of interest in painting. It turned out, however, that this was far from true, and Reiddiscusses the established artists who produced steadily throughout the period as well as new arrivals on the scene who have since joined the ranks of leading Canadian painters.

Author : Nicole Neatby,Peter Hodgins
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802038166

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Settling and Unsettling Memories by Nicole Neatby,Peter Hodgins Pdf

Settling and Unsettling Memories analyses the ways in which Canadians over the past century have narrated the story of their past in books, films, works of art, commemorative ceremonies, and online. This cohesive collection introduces readers to overarching themes of Canadian memory studies and brings them up-to-date on the latest advances in the field. With increasing debates surrounding how societies should publicly commemorate events and people, Settling and Unsettling Memories helps readers appreciate the challenges inherent in presenting the past. Prominent and emerging scholars explore the ways in which Canadian memory has been put into action across a variety of communities, regions, and time periods. Through high-quality essays touching on the central questions of historical consciousness and collective memory, this collection makes a significant contribution to a rapidly growing field.

Author : Heather Igloliorte,Carla Taunton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000608564

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The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Art Histories in the United States and Canada by Heather Igloliorte,Carla Taunton Pdf

This companion consists of chapters that focus on and bring forward critical theories and productive methodologies for Indigenous art history in North America. This book makes a major and original contribution to the fields of Indigenous visual arts, professional curatorial practice, graduate-level curriculum development, and academic research. The contributors expand, create, establish and define Indigenous theoretical and methodological approaches for the production, discussion, and writing of Indigenous art histories. Bringing together scholars, curators, and artists from across the intersecting fields of Indigenous art history, critical museology, cultural studies, and curatorial practice, the companion promotes the study and dissemination of Indigenous art and stimulates new conversations on such key areas as visual sovereignty and self-determination; resurgence and resilience; land-based, embodied, and nation-specific knowledges; epistemologies and ontologies; curatorial and museological methodologies; language; decolonization and Indigenization; and collaboration, consultation, and mentorship.

Author : Amelia Jones,Jane Chin Davidson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781119841784

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A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework by Amelia Jones,Jane Chin Davidson Pdf

WILEY BLACK WELL COMPANIONS TO ART HISTORY A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework explores the ways specialists and institutions in the fine arts, curation, cultural studies, and art history have attempted to situate art in a more global framework since the 1980s. Offering analyses of the successes and setbacks of these efforts to globalize the art world, this innovative volume presents a new and exciting way of considering art in its global contexts. Essays by an international panel of leading scholars and practicing artists assert that what we talk about as ‘art’ is essentially a Western concept, thus any attempts at understanding art in a global framework require a revising of established conceptual definitions. Organized into three sections, this work first reviews the history and theory of the visual arts since 1980 and introduces readers to the emerging area of scholarship that seeks to place contemporary art in a global framework. The second section traces the progression of recent developments in the art world, focusing on the historical and cultural contexts surrounding efforts to globalize the art world and the visual arts in particular global and transnational frameworks. The final section addresses a wide range of key themes in contemporary art, such as the fundamental institutions and ontologies of art practice, and the interactions among art, politics, and the public sphere. A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, researchers, and general readers interested in exploring global art beyond the traditional Euro-American context.

Author : William G. Colgate
Publisher : Ryerson
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Art
ISBN : UCAL:B4501755

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Canadian Art by William G. Colgate Pdf

Author : Lora Senechal Carney
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780773551923

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Canadian Painters in a Modern World, 1925–1955 by Lora Senechal Carney Pdf

From the Roaring Twenties and the Group of Seven to the Automatistes and the early Cold War, Canadian artists lived through and embodied an era of global tumult and change. With an interweaving of historical narrative, lavish illustrations, and writings by many of Canada's most revered cultural figures, Lora Senechal Carney illuminates the lives, perspectives, and works of the era's painters and provides glimpses of the sculptors, poets, dancers, critics, and filmmakers with whom they associated. Canadian Painters in a Modern World gives readers direct access to a carefully curated selection of writings, artworks, photos, and other documents that help to reconstruct the public spheres in which artists including Paul-Émile Borduas, Emily Carr, Alex Colville, Lawren Harris, David Milne, and Pegi Nicol MacLeod circulated. Each of the book’s eight chapters consists of a narrative about a key issue or debate, focusing on the relationship of art to politics and society, and on how these are negotiated in an individual's life. Relating artistic engagement with and responses to the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War, and the Cold War, Senechal Carney discovers a common desire for new connections between art and life. Revealing continuities, ruptures, and watershed moments, Canadian Painters in a Modern World showcases artistic production within specific socio-political contexts to shed new light on Canadian art during three decades of conflict and crisis.