Negotiations in a vacant lot : studying the visual in Canada /

Negotiations in a vacant lot : studying the visual in Canada / edited by Lynda Jessup, Erin Morton, and Kirsty Robertson. - Montreal and Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource. - McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: Rethinking Relevance: Studying the Visual in Canada / PART ONE PREPOSTEROUS HISTORIES OF THE PRESENT / 2 Feminist Art History in Canada: A "Limited Pursuit"? / 3 Dealing with Chiastic Perspectives: Global Art Histories in Canada / 4 The Location of / LYNDA JESSUP, ERIN MORTON, AND KIRSTY ROBERTSON -- ERIN MORTON. 1 Struck by Likening: Homer Watson, Jack Chambers, Gerhard Richter, and the Force of Art World Analogies / MARK A. CHEETHAM -- KRISTY A. HOLMES -- ALICE MING WAI JIM -- The Conditions for Art: On-Site Specifics and Site Adjustments / ANNIE GÉRIN. PART TWO OUT WITH THE NEW / 6 Visualizing the "New" North American Landscape / 7 Arctic Culture/Global Indigeneity / 8 The Vacant Lot: Who's Buying It? / IMRE SZEMAN. 5 National Cultural Policy and the International Liberal Order / BARBARA JENKINS -- SARAH E.K. SMITH -- HEATHER IGLOLIORTE -- RICHARD WILLIAM HILL. PART THREE DISCONTIGUOUS DEPENDENCIES / 10 Our Vacant Lot Is a Trailer Park: Why English Canada's Perpetual Threat of Disappearing Keeps Film and Television Alive / 11 The Art of Conflict: Liberal Development after Neo-liberalism / 12 Considering Sovereignty and Neo-liberalism within Indeterminate States and Self-Determined Spaces / KIRSTY ROBERTSON. 9 The Aesthetics of the Territory-Nation-State and the "Canadian Problematique" / ROB SHIELDS -- JENNIFER VANDERBURGH -- SUSAN CAHILL -- PETER CONLIN.



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Art and society--Canada.
Art--History.--Canada
Art, Canadian.
Art--Political aspects--Canada.
Nationalism and art--Canada.
National characteristics in art.


Electronic Books.

N72 / .N446 2014