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Autore: |
Gérin Annie
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Titolo: |
Public art in Canada : critical perspectives / / edited by Annie Gérin and James S. McLean
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Pubblicazione: | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009 |
©2009 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (353 p.) |
Disciplina: | 709.71 |
Soggetto topico: | Art, Canadian |
Artists - Canada | |
Soggetto geografico: | Kanada |
Canada | |
Persona (resp. second.): | GérinAnnie |
McLeanJames S. | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Nota di contenuto: | The wrong commemoration : Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith's paintings of the state funeral of Sir John Thompson / Eva Major-Marothy -- A drive through Canadian history : people, cars, and public art at Niagara Fall in the 1930s / Joan Coutu -- Camouflage series / Jason St-Laurent -- Public art and Canadian cultural policy : the airports / Bernard Flaman -- I nostri grandi Padri -- Heroic nationalism and the Italians of Montreal : the monument to Giovanni Caboto, 1935 / Anna Maria Carlevaris -- What's the point? / Jeff Thomas -- Memoire ardente by Gilbert Boyer, or when politics penetrates contemporary art / Veronique Rodriguez -- Edmonton's city hall as visual archive and collector of memory / C.S. Ogden -- Cultural interventions in the public sphere / Bruce Barber -- Queering the streets : Johannes Zits and contemporary public art as activism / Daniel Faria -- Exhibiting madness in The Weyburn Project : situating performance/installation in an abandoned mental asylum / Kathleen Irwin -- Model for a public space / Adrian Blackwell -- Dark forces at Mount Allison University / Rebecca Burke -- Emerging urban aesthetics in public art : the thresholds of proximity / Julie Boivin -- Window (dis)plays : reality shopping / Kim Morgan -- Framing temporality : Montreal graffiti in photography / Ella Chmielewska -- Stardance / John Noestheden -- The public part of public art : technology and the art of public communication / James S. McLean. |
Sommario/riassunto: | The rigorous essays and original works of art collected in this volume present a compelling demonstration of the strategies, aesthetic and otherwise, used by artists to elicit intellectual, sensual, or emotional responses that can only be obtained through artistic practices in public places. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Public art in Canada ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-4426-9708-3 |
1-4426-9752-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910819170803321 |
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