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Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas
A natural history and illustrations of the New World in the seventeenth century.
Fields of Fire
With Fields of Fire, Terry Copp challenges the conventional view that the Canadian contribution to the Battle of Normandy was a failure that the allies won only through the use of brute force, and that the Canadian soldiers and commanding officers were essentially incompetent. His detailed and impeccably researched analysis of what actually happened on the battlefield portrays a flexible, innovative army that made a major, and successful, contribution to the defeat of the German forces in just seventy-six days. Challenging both existing interpretations of the campaign and current approaches to military history, Copp examines the Battle of Normandy, tracking the soldiers over the battlefield terrain and providing an account of each operation carried out by the Canadian army. In so doing, he illustrates the valour, skill, and commitment of the Allied citizen-soldier in the face of a well-entrenched and well-equipped enemy army. This new edition of Copp's best-selling, award-winning history includes a new introduction that examines the strategic background of the Battle of Normandy.
Jean Paul Riopelle and the Automatiste Movement
A revealing reading of Jean Paul Riopelle's artistic method through the enduring influence of a short and intense involvement with the Automatiste movement.
Depicting Canada’s Children
Depicting Canada’s Children is a critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children from the seventeenth century to the present. Recognizing the importance of methodological diversity, these essays discuss understandings of children and childhood derived from depictions across a wide range of media and contexts. But rather than simply examine images in formal settings, the authors take into account the components of the images and the role of image-making in everyday life. The contributors provide a close study of the evolution of the figure of the child and shed light on the defining role children have played in the history of Canada and our assumptions about them. Rather than offer comprehensive historical coverage, this collection is a catalyst for further study through case studies that endorse innovative scholarship. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, Canadian history, visual culture, Canadian studies, and the history of children.
Museum Pieces
The ways in which Aboriginal people and museums work together have changed drastically in recent decades. This historic process of decolonization, including distinctive attempts to institutionalize multiculturalism, has pushed Canadian museums to pioneer new practices that can accommodate both difference and inclusivity. Ruth Phillips argues that these practices are "indigenous" not only because they originate in Aboriginal activism but because they draw on a distinctively Canadian preference for compromise and tolerance for ambiguity. Phillips dissects seminal exhibitions of Indigenous art to show how changes in display, curatorial voice, and authority stem from broad social, economic, and ...
Allied Arts
Considering a wide range of craftspeople, materials, and forms, The Allied Arts investigates the history of the complex relationship between craft and architecture by examining the intersection of these two areas in Canadian public buildings.
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Rethinking Professionalism
The history of women and art in Canada has often been celebrated as a story of progress from amateur to professional practice. Rethinking Professionalism challenges this narrative by questioning the assumptions that underlie the category of artistic professionalism, a construct as influential for artistic practice as it has been for art historical understanding. Through a series of in-depth studies, contributors examine changes to the infrastructure of the art world that resulted from a powerful discourse of professionalization that emerged in the late- nineteenth century. While many women embraced this new model, others fell by the wayside, barred from professional status by virtue of their...
Reconstructing Modernism
These essays reopen the case of postwar abstraction. they constitute a dialogue among historians, critics, painters, and art historians that allows not only new readings of specific art works, but also a new understanding of the reception of art in the postwar Western world.
François-Marc Gagnon et l'art au Québec
Dans cet ouvrage, des spécialistes reconnus en art canadien rendent hommage à l’historien de l’art François-Marc Gagnon pour la contribution intellectuelle remarquable qu’il a apportée à la discipline, de la mise en valeur de la culture populaire à celle de la modernité urbaine de l’entredeux- guerres, et pour son apport à l’histoire des idées, notamment sur l’émergence de la modernité au Québec. Faisant un retour sur ses champs de recherche et les questionnements profonds qui l’ont animé durant sa vie, les auteurs et les autrices portent un regard critique sur l’ensemble de son corpus, qui s’étend de l’art ancien de la Nouvelle-France et des représentation...
