The visual arts in Canada : the twentieth century

Foss, Brian. (Added Author). Paikowsky, Sandra. (Added Author). Whitelaw, Anne, 1966- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780195434590 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0195434595 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xv, 480 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports. ; 26 cm.
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.