The visual arts in Canada: the twentieth century

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 bythe country's leading art historians. A comprehensive overview, this volume embraces painting, sculpture, photography, design, video, conceptual and cross-disciplinary art, as well as studies of art institutions and historiography. With such a remarkable scope, it is truly the first of its kind ever published.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 Artsin Canada will appeal to general readers and students alike. INDICE: 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 Abstractionafter 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

• ISBN: 978-0-19-542125-5
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 496
• Fecha Publicación: 13/05/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés