Public Art in Canada : : Critical Perspectives /

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

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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 pu...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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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

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