topic:"Thesis" found 6 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Abstract: When art critic Lucy Lippard named "the artist's wife" to be a socially-assigned identity for female artists in the early 1970s, she understood some of the significance of women's companionship status. This dissertation considers how "the artist's wife" was a diverse and hierarchical problem for six female artists during their efforts to access Canada's postwar exhibition market. Joyce Wieland of Toronto, Ontario, Marion Nicoll of Calgary, Alberta, Mary Pratt of St. John's, Newfoundland, and Kenojuak Ashevak of Cape Dorset, Nunavut all experienced this social phenomenon differently. Because the two studios of Wieland and Pratt were combined with domestic life they were also dubbed "kitchen artists." As Marion Nicoll learned, it took much conviction to pursue an art practice focused on abstract painting in traditional institutional and marital contexts. The category "Eskimo" added racial difference to Kenojuak's creative and marital identities. Frances Loring and Florence Wyle of Toronto were persistently called "the Girls," an identity that underscored their non-compliance with heterosexual marriage. Using feminist theories of sexual difference and representation, and intersecting the traditionally distinct fields of history and art history, this study illuminates that the female artist's companionship status mattered much more than has been historically understood. These artists' experiences provide opportunity to reflect on curatorial practice and subject representation and expose that the solo exhibition cannot be fully separated from the artist-couple exhibition when studying the female artist's exhibition history. Their experiences also make visible that gender and female artist identities, including the category "woman artist," are important when studying the female artist in postwar North American art and marriage histories if the social conditions of women's art production are to be fully understood.

Contents: Abstract; Acknowledgements; List of figures; List of abbreviations; Chapter One : introduction : beyond "the artist's wife"; Chapter Two : socializing women to marriage : the five artist-couple marraiges of Marion Nicholl, Joyce Wieland, Mary Pratt, Frances Loring, Florence Wyle and Kenojuak Ashevak; Chapter Three : two women's "one-man exhibitions" : the experience of abstract painting and the artist-couple marriages of Marion Nicholl and Joyce Wieland, 1959 - 1963; Chapter Four : two women's "one-man exhibitions" : Joyce Wieland, Mary Pratt and the identity "kitchen artist" 1963 - 1973; Chapter Five : two more women's "two-man" artist-couple exhibitions : the social emergence of Frances Loring and Florence Wyle as "the girls"; Chapter Six : one women's "two-man" exhibitions : Kenojuak Ashevak's artist-couple exhibitions with Johnniebo Ashevak, 1967 - 1970; Chapter Seven : conclusion; Bibliography; Appendix 1; Copyright permissions

ISBN: 978-0-494-89628-0

Accession Number: p2019-26

Call Number: 06.1 Ma37b

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Available online through University of Alberta

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Bibliography of theses in geology, 1958-1963

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5436

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1964

Author: Chronic, John

Publisher: Washington (D.C.) : American Geological Institute

Call Number: 03.2 C46

Author: Chronic, John

Responsibility: by John Chronic and Halka Chronic

Publisher: Washington (D.C.) : American Geological Institute

Published Date: 1964

Physical Description: 1v.(unpaged)

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Thesis

Accession Number: 6000

Call Number: 03.2 C46

Collection: Archives Library

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Dendroarchaeological and contextual investigations of remote log structures in Jasper, Banff, and Kootenay National Parks, Canada.

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25106

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2004

Author: Brelsford, Karen Jacqueline

Publisher: Victoria : University of Victoria

Call Number: 06.5 B74d

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Author: Brelsford, Karen Jacqueline

Responsibility: Karen Jacqueline Brelsford

Publisher: Victoria : University of Victoria

Published Date: 2004

Physical Description: 310 pages ; illus. , maps

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: National parks; Architecture; Buildings; Cabins; Cabins and shelters; Thesis

Abstract: The aim of this thesis is to undertake a comprehensive dendroarchaeological-contextual investigation of 35 sites (44 log structures) in Jasper, Banff, and Kootenay National Parks. Through tree-ring analysis and investigations of relevant documents (i.e., archives and interviews), three main objectives are met: (1) an architectural inventory and tree-ring analysis of sampled structures in the three parks; (2) an exploration of remote construction activity in the three parks, in terms of functional, temporal, and spatial distributions, and tree species selection; and (3) a detailed dendroarchaeological-contextual investigation of three structure case studies. The results provide new insights into remote construction activity from the late-nineteenth to early-twentieth century in the three parks. It assists Parks Canada in their attempt to interpret the cultural heritage resources of this area and contributes to the international need to document and explore vernacular architecture. (from the University of Victoria library website)

Contents: Title Page Abstract Table of Contents List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements 1.0 Introduction 2.0 Literature Review 3.0 Study Sites and Methods 4.0 Characteristics of living and structure chronologies in Jasper, Banff, and Kootenay National Parks Construction Activity in Jasper, Banff, and Kootenay National Parks 6.0 Case Studies 7.0 Conclusions 8.0 References Appendix A: Tree-ring dating results and site descriptions for 35 sites (44 structures) sampled in Jasper, Banff, and Kootenay Parks Appendix B: Interview Transcriptions Appendix C: Copyright Permissions