Rethinking professionalism women and art in Canada, 1850-1970 /

Rethinking professionalism women and art in Canada, 1850-1970 / edited by Kristina Huneault and Janice Anderson. - Montréal [Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2012. (Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2012). - 1 online resource (xxvi, 443 pages) : illustrations (some color), portraits, digital file. - McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history ; 9 .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Part One Introduction. Professionalism as Critical Concept and Historical Process for Women and Art in Canada / Part Two Professionalizing Art. "What Would He Have Us Do?": Gender and the "Profession" of Artist in New Brunswick in the 1930s and 1940s / The Rewards of Professionalization: Alice Lusk Webster and the New Brunswick Museum, 1933-53 / "A Story of Struggle and Splendid Courage": Anne Savage's CBC Broadcasts of The Development of Art in Canada / Part Three Careers for Women. Hannah Maynard: Crafting Professional Identity / From Amateur to Professional: The Advertising Photography of Margaret Watkins, 1924-28 / "I Weep for Us Women": Modernism, Feminism, and Suburbia in the Canadian Home Journal's Home '53 Design Competition / Kathleen Daly's Images of Inuit People: Professional Art and the Practice of Ethnography / The Girls and the Grid: Montreal Women Abstract Painters in the 1950s and Early 1960s / Part Four The Limits of Professionalism. "I Want to Call Their Names in Resistance": Writing Aboriginal Women into Canadian Art History, 1880-1970 / From "Naturalized Invention" to the Invention of a Tradition: The Victorian Reception of Onkwehonwe Beadwork / Professional/Volunteer: Women at the Edmonton Art Gallery, 1923-70 / "Marjorie's Web": Canada's First Woman Architect and Her Clients / Kristina Huneault -- Kirk Niergarth -- Lianne McTavish -- Alena Buis -- Jennifer Salahub -- Mary O'Connor -- Cynthia Imogen Hammond -- Loren Lerner -- Sandra Paikowsky -- Sherry Farrell Racette -- Ruth B. Phillips -- Anne Whitelaw -- Annmarie Adams.



9780773586833


Women artists--History.--Canada
Feminism and art--History.--Canada
Art, Canadian--20th century.
Art, Canadian--19th century.


Electronic Books.

N8354 / .R484 2012