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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Canadian Art"”.
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Contingencies : visualizing tensions between contemporary critical theory and Canadian art practice
… some of the most urgent debates in contemporary art history. Focussing on deconstruction, formalism, and cultural theory as critical methodologies within the theory of art, it examines a range of cultural expressions and contemporary currents of thought relative to the problem of vision and …
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Closed systems : Alexandra Luke, Hortense Gordon and the Canadian art history canon
The marginalization of women's art within the Canadian art history canon articulates the dichotomy which exists between the practice of making art in a Canadian context and the selective recording of that practice within written history. Canadian painters Alexandra Luke and Hortense Gordon made …
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Strategic spaces : towards a genealogy of women artists' groups in Canada
As part of an alternative to canonical Canadian art history, this thesis looks at the histories of women artists' spaces in Canada Overlooked by predominant texts addressing Canadian art history, these spaces have provided a physical place where many Canadian women artists have gathered to train, …
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The Beaver Hall Group and its place in the Montreal art milieu and the nationalist network
The Montreal art milieu of 1920 was conservative in nature and the Beaver Hall Group was formed, in part, in response to that local art scene. Essentially an exhibiting society, its members sought freedom of expression. The formation of the Group also coincided with a period in Canadian history …
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Decolonizing the Story of Art in Canada: A Storied Approach to Art for an Intercultural, More-Than-Human World
The master narrative dominating the field of Canadian art history has continually privileged Eurocentric, colonialist ways of knowing. Many art historians and critics have called for a new story, but nothing to date has been proposed. This dissertation marks the first attempt at re-envisioning the …
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A methodology for the study of sketchbooks, and a case study of two nineteenth-century Canadian examples
… for the examination and analysis of drawing in artists' sketchbooks. The study of the physical structure of the sketchbook is critical to our understanding of its context as well as the iconography and style of the content. The problems inherent in studying sketchbooks and their drawings are …
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The shadow of a nation : remembering the Black woman in the nomadic picture
Francois Malepart de Beaucourt (1740-1794), an artist of Parisian and French-Canadian heritage, allegedly painted Portrait of a Negro Slave in 1786. Also known as La Negresse, or The Negress, the portrait has since become one of Canada's most famous historical paintings. After two centuries, it …
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Lucius R. O'Brien : a Victorian in North America : American influence on his early work, 1873-1880
Lucius R. O'Brien was a well-known Canadian landscape painter in the second half of the nineteenth century. Active in the promotion of art in Ontario, he served as vice-president of the Ontario Society of Artists from 1874 until 1880, at which time, in recognition of his leading role in Canadian …
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Public occupations : art theory, cultural methodology, and social change
Various combinations of the terms "public" and "art" circulate in news sources, gallery publications, art magazines, and theoretical texts. Within this area of art theory, criticism, and discussion, the designation public functions as a "discursive operator" (J. M. Berthelot) because similar …
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Inherent rights, vision rights : a virtual environment by Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun
My fascination with new technologies lies, in part, in their appearance to function invisibly, like unseen forces possessing miraculous and mysterious powers. My intention in this thesis is to explore these unseen forces, through Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun's 1991-92 virtual environment Inherent …
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The Aesthetics of Resistance in Latin American Art in Canada
This dissertation examines contemporary art by Latin American diaspora artists in Canada, focusing on artworks that address trauma, displacement, feminist resistance, and anti-colonial perspectives in the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, and British Colombia. While drawing on extensive artists' …
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A Case for Utopian Dreaming: Feminisms within Canadian Artist-Run Centres
… flourishing future? When applied to the state of artist-run centre culture, and specifically feminist identified artist-run centres, in Canada, questions that follow include, who gets to represent futurity? Whose futures count? How are artist-run centres and art communities transformed by the …
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IAIN BAXTER& and N.E. THING CO.: A Study in Pop-Inflected Conceptual Art
The Canadian artist IAIN BAXTER&, known before 2005 as Iain Baxter, created an innovative Conceptual Art practice in the mid-60s that continues to make important contributions even today. He has maintained a strong collaborative element in his art, as witnessed by his role in the short-lived group …
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KALEIDOSCOPE VISION: MODERN PERSPECTIVES IN THE WORK OF PEGINICOL MACLEOD
Positioning the work of Canadian artist Pegi Nicol MacLeod (1904-1949) as a dynamic negotiation of modernism, this thesis examines the significance of everyday life and embodied existence to her artistic practice. By representationally revising domesticity, tactically modifying her home …
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The Queer Mummer
Through blending the art form of drag and the Newfoundland tradition of mummering, The Queer Mummer deconstructs gender norms and homophobic attitudes surrounding being openly queer. The Queer Mummer serves as reminder that mummering, itself, is a custom that queers space. Both drag and mummering …