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Uplift : visual culture at the Banff School of Fine Arts

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2020
Author
Reichwein, PearlAnn and Wall, Karen
Publisher
Vancouver, B.C. : UBC Press
Call Number
08.3 R27u
Author
Reichwein, PearlAnn and Wall, Karen
Publisher
Vancouver, B.C. : UBC Press
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
xii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Art
Banff
Banff Centre
Banff School of Fine Arts
Tourism
Schools
History-Canada
Abstract
In 1933, the Banff School was established as a summer outreach program of the University of Alberta, offering a single course in drama. Since then, it has become a renowned cultural destination and educational institution, today known as the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. As PearlAnn Reichwein and Karen Wall recount in this engaging history, over its first four decades the school produced and circulated ideals of culture and liberal democratic citizenship that were intrinsic to the development of modern Canada. Uplift traces the role of the school in shaping arts and cultural education, as reflected in its array of interests from the artistic to the political, economic, and ideological. Situated within Banff National Park, the school and its surroundings combined stunning natural scenery and cultural capital in a symbolic national landscape. In an era of unstable cultural policy and state support for the arts, Uplift offers a nuanced account of one particular engine of nation building and tourism development. It draws attention to the past and present place of fine arts, culture, and the humanities in public education and in Canada's history, exploring what they mean to democracy, citizenship, and a life well lived. -- Provided by publisher
Contents
Introduction: Artists, Tourists, and Citizens ; Uplifting the People: Extension Education and the Arts ; Branding Banff: Arts Education, Tourism, and Nation Building ; Building a “Campus in the Clouds”: Space, Design, Modernity ; “Wholesome, Understandable Pictures”: Practices of Landscape Painting and Production of Landscapes ; Presence and Portrait: Indigeneity in the Park ; “Leading Artists of the World”: Teachers as Tourist Attractions and Pedagogues ; “Some Paint, Some Tan”: Students Coming to the Mountains ; Conclusion: The Arts, Nature, and Democracy
ISBN
9780774864527
Accession Number
P2022.07
Call Number
08.3 R27u
Collection
Archives Library
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