LEADER 04975nam 2200685 450 001 9910459936503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-2087-0 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442620872 035 $a(CKB)3710000000329576 035 $a(EBL)4670112 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4670112 035 $a(DE-B1597)465505 035 $a(OCoLC)1013948492 035 $a(OCoLC)944178790 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442620872 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4670112 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11256626 035 $a(OCoLC)958580558 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000329576 100 $a20160922h20042004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe force of culture $eVincent Massey and Canadian sovereignty /$fKaren A. Finlay 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2004. 210 4$dİ2004 215 $a1 online resource (364 p.) 225 0 $aHeritage 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4426-5766-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tForeword: The 1951 Report of Canada's Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters, and Sciences / $rMoore, Mavor -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction: Character, Citizenship, and Culture - Massey's 'Other Canada' -- $tPart One: Culture and Education -- $t1. A Methodist Educator, 1908-1921 -- $t2. A National Platform for Education, 1920-1926 -- $tPart Two: Arts of Resistance -- $t3. Becoming 'Art-Minded,' 1902-1930 -- $t4. Nationalizing the Arts, 1922-1935 -- $tPart Three: Forging a New Framework -- $t5. The State and the Arts: British Models, 1935-1946 -- $t6. Arm's Length: Culture, the State, and Canadian Sovereignty, 1946-1951 -- $tConclusion: The Force of Culture -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aA misunderstood and sometimes maligned figure, Vincent Massey was one of Canada's most influential cultural policy-makers and art patrons. Best known as Canada's first native-born Governor General, he chaired the landmark Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters, and Sciences that led to the creation of the Canada Council. The Force of Culture examines Massey's notion of culture, its conflicted roots in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Canadian Protestant thought, and Massey's transformation into a champion of culture as a bastion of Canadian sovereignty.Karen Finlay's study goes beyond existing literature by examining the role of Massey's Methodist upbringing in instilling an education gospel as the bedrock of culture and the foundation of a national citizenry. The study also reassesses Massey's reputation as a supporter of the fine arts. Steeped in Methodism, his attitudes towards the arts were ambiguous. He never adopted a purely art-for-art's sake doctrine, but came to understand that the arts, without being moralizing, could serve a moral and cultural purpose: the expression and affirmation of national character and sovereignty.As well as charting Massey's evolving attitudes towards culture and the arts, Finlay attempts to redress the common charges of sexism, elitism, and anglophonism levelled against him. Finlay stresses Massey's contradictory views on issues relating to gender, race, and class, outweighed by the ongoing legacy of his belief in Canadian cultural diversity. Above all, Massey valorized the principles of excellence and diversity as twin antidotes to the anathema of conformity and cultural homogenization. The tenet Massey sought to honour, pertaining deeply to the collective and moral nature of humanism in Canada, Finlay argues, was community without uniformity. The Force of Culture shows that Massey was, in certain respects, a democratizer and even a populist, who believed that difference need not divide. Disclaimer: Images removed at the request of the rights holder 410 0$aHeritage 606 $aStatesmen$zCanada$vBiography 606 $aArt patrons$zCanada$vBiography 606 $aArt and state$zCanada$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPolitics and culture$zCanada$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aNationalism$zCanada$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aCanada$xCultural policy 607 $aCanada$xIntellectual life$y20th century 607 $aCanada$xPolitics and government$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aStatesmen 615 0$aArt patrons 615 0$aArt and state$xHistory 615 0$aPolitics and culture$xHistory 615 0$aNationalism$xHistory 676 $a971.063/092 700 $aFinlay$b Karen A.$0949734 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459936503321 996 $aThe force of culture$92146662 997 $aUNINA