Bringing art to life [[electronic resource] ] : a biography of Alan Jarvis / / Andrew Horrall

• Autore: Horrall Andrew
• Pubblicazione: Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: xiii, 457 p. : col. ill., ports
• Disciplina: 708.11/384
• Soggetto topico: Art museum directors - Canada
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. "A Walking Work of Art": Introduction -- 2. "A Curiously Mixed Background": Family and Childhood, 1915-1934 -- 3. "Douglas Duncan Invented Me": Undergraduate, 1934-1938 -- 4. "I May Come Home with an Accent - God Forbid": Europe, Oxford, and Darrington, 1938-1939 -- 5. "The Dead Days": Toronto and New York City, 1939-1941 -- 6. "Up to My Ears in the Business World": England, 1942-1945 -- 7. "To Build a New Kind of Society": The Council of Industrial Design, 1945-1947 -- 8. "A Break in a Million": Pilgrim Pictures, 1948-1950 -- 9. "I Certainly Hope 1950 Will Be Different": Oxford House, 1950-1955 -- 10. "A Museum without Walls": The National Gallery of Canada, 1955-1956 -- 11. "A Chamber of Horrors": The National Gallery of Canada, 1957-1959 -- 12. "Canada's Most Outspoken and Witty Man About the Arts": Toronto, 1960-1968 -- 13. "We Have Lost Our Sheep Dog": The Last Years, 1968-1972.
• Titolo autorizzato: Bringing art to life
• ISBN: 1-282-86630-3; 9786612866302; 0-7735-7583-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458193803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history ; ; #2.