Public Art in Canada : : Critical Perspectives / / Annie Gérin, James S. McLean.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Gérin, Annie,; McLean, James S.,
• MitwirkendeR: Barber, Bruce,; Blackwell, Adrian,; Boivin, Julie,; Burke, Rebecca,; Carlevaris, Anna Maria,; Chmielewska, Ella,; Coutu, Joan,; Faria, Daniel,; Gérin, Annie,; Irwin, Kathleen,; Major-Marothy, Eva,; McLean, James S.,; Morgan, Kim,; Noestheden, John,; Ogden, C.S.,; Rodriguez, Véronique,; St-Laurent, Jason,; Thomas, Jeff,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

Arguably, public art is experienced daily by more people than most offerings in galleries, yet our notion of what constitutes public art is surprisingly limited. Public Art in Canada broadens the critical discussion by exploring public art's varied means of engaging with public space and the public sphere. Annie Gérin and James S. McLean have assembled contributions from new and established Canadian scholars, curators, and artists. Each contributor enlivens our understanding of public art as a practice and its place in the social and aesthetic formation of which it is a part. As a result, the book provides an overview of the current debates in the field of public art that are informed by the theories and critical literature of art history, communication studies, cultural studies, sociology, and urban studies. The rigorous essays and original works of art collected in this volume present a compelling demonstration of the strategies, aesthetic and otherwise, used by artists to elicit intellectual, sensual, or emotional responses that can only be obtained through artistic practices in public places. Public Art in Canada is a major contribution to the study of Canadian art and culture.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Off Base -- Part 1: The State and the Negotiation of Taste -- 1. The Wrong Commemoration: Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith's Paintings of the State Funeral of Sir John Thompson -- 2. A Drive through Canadian History: People, Cars, and Public Art at Niagara Falls in the 1930s -- 3. Camouflage Series -- 4. Public Art and Canadian Cultural Policy: The Airports -- Part 2: Memory, Politics, and Controversies -- 5. I nostri grandi Padri ... Heroic Nationalism and the Italians of Montreal: The Monument to Giovanni Caboto, 1935 -- 6. What's the Point? -- 7. Mémoire ardente by Gilbert Boyer, or When Politics Penetrates Contemporary Art -- 8. Edmonton's City Hall as Visual Archive and Collector of Memory -- Part 3: Activist Practices in Public Art Today -- 9. Cultural Interventions in the Public Sphere -- 10. Queering the Streets: Johannes Zits and Contemporary Public Art as Activism -- 11. Exhibiting Madness in The Weyburn Project: Situating Performance/Installation in an Abandoned Mental Asylum -- 12. Model for a Public Space -- 13. Dark Forces at Mount Allison University -- Part 4: Contemporary Perspectives on Public Art -- 14. Emerging Urban Aesthetics in Public Art: The Thresholds of Proximity -- 15. Window (Dis)Plays: Reality Shopping -- 16. Framing Temporality: Montreal Graffiti in Photography -- 17. Stardance -- 18. The Public Part of Public Art: Technology and the Art of Public Communication -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Illustration Credits