Public art in Canada : critical perspectives /
Public art in Canada : critical perspectives /
edited by Annie Gérin and James S. McLean.
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, (c)2009.
- 1 online resource (x, 340 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographies and index.
The wrong commemoration -- -- Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith's paintings of the state funeral of Sir John Thompson / A drive through Canadian history -- -- people, cars, and public art at Niagara Fall in the 1930s / Camouflage series / Public art and Canadian cultural policy -- -- the airports / I nostri grandi Padri -- Heroic nationalism and the Italians of Montreal -- -- the monument to Giovanni Caboto, 1935 / What's the point? / Mémoire ardente by Gilbert Boyer, or when politics penetrates contemporary art / Edmonton's city hall as visual archive and collector of memory / Cultural interventions in the public sphere / Queering the streets -- -- Johannes Zits and contemporary public art as activism / Exhibiting madness in The Weyburn Project -- -- situating performance/installation in an abandoned mental asylum / Model for a public space / Dark forces at Mount Allison University / Emerging urban aesthetics in public art -- -- the thresholds of proximity / Window (dis)plays -- -- reality shopping / Framing temporality -- -- Montreal graffiti in photography / Stardance / The public part of public art -- -- technology and the art of public communication / Eva Major-Marothy -- Joan Coutu -- Jason St-Laurent -- Bernard Flaman -- Anna Maria Carlevaris -- Jeff Thomas -- Véronique Rodriguez -- C.S. Ogden -- Bruce Barber -- Daniel Faria -- Kathleen Irwin -- Adrian Blackwell -- Rebecca Burke -- Julie Boivin -- Kim Morgan -- Ella Chmielewska -- John Noestheden -- James S. McLean.
9781442697089
Public art--Canada.
Electronic Books.
N8846 / .P835 2009
Includes bibliographies and index.
The wrong commemoration -- -- Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith's paintings of the state funeral of Sir John Thompson / A drive through Canadian history -- -- people, cars, and public art at Niagara Fall in the 1930s / Camouflage series / Public art and Canadian cultural policy -- -- the airports / I nostri grandi Padri -- Heroic nationalism and the Italians of Montreal -- -- the monument to Giovanni Caboto, 1935 / What's the point? / Mémoire ardente by Gilbert Boyer, or when politics penetrates contemporary art / Edmonton's city hall as visual archive and collector of memory / Cultural interventions in the public sphere / Queering the streets -- -- Johannes Zits and contemporary public art as activism / Exhibiting madness in The Weyburn Project -- -- situating performance/installation in an abandoned mental asylum / Model for a public space / Dark forces at Mount Allison University / Emerging urban aesthetics in public art -- -- the thresholds of proximity / Window (dis)plays -- -- reality shopping / Framing temporality -- -- Montreal graffiti in photography / Stardance / The public part of public art -- -- technology and the art of public communication / Eva Major-Marothy -- Joan Coutu -- Jason St-Laurent -- Bernard Flaman -- Anna Maria Carlevaris -- Jeff Thomas -- Véronique Rodriguez -- C.S. Ogden -- Bruce Barber -- Daniel Faria -- Kathleen Irwin -- Adrian Blackwell -- Rebecca Burke -- Julie Boivin -- Kim Morgan -- Ella Chmielewska -- John Noestheden -- James S. McLean.
9781442697089
Public art--Canada.
Electronic Books.
N8846 / .P835 2009