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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Canadian art history"”.
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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 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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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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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 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 …