The visual arts in Canada

University of Oxford Press

2010

480 p.

9780195421255

Contents: Art institutions in the twentieth century : Framing Canadian visual culture / Anne Whitelaw. Into the new century : Painting, c. 1890–1914. Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven / Charles C. Hill. Emily Carr : Modernism, cultural identity, and ethnocultural art history / Gerta Moray. Designing Canada / Alan C. Elder. Modern art, the local, and the global, c. 1930–50 / Lora Senechal Carney. Modernist representational painting before 1950 / Sandra Paikowsky. Paul-Émile Borduas and the Automatistes / Francois-Marc Gagnon. Making painting real : Abstract and non-objective art in English Canada, c. 1915–61 / Joyce Zemans. A culture in transition : Inuit art in the twentieth century / Ingo Hessel. Geometric abstraction after 1950 / Diana Nemiroff. Sculpture before 1960 / Christine Boyanoski. The new figuration : From pop to postmodernism / Johanne Sloan. A short history of photography, 1900–2000 / Martha Langford. Sculpture and installation since 1960 / William Wood. Conceptual art in Canada : Capitals, peripheries, and capitalism / Jayne Wark. Aboriginal modernities : First Nations art, c. 1880–1970 / Ruth B. Phillips. Contemporary First Nations art since 1970 : Individual practices and collective activism / Lee-Ann Martin. Experimental video in Canada and the question of identity / Christine Ross. Writing art history in the twentieth century / Laurier Lacroix

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