Visions : contemporary art in Canada
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1983
- Author
- essays by Alvin Balkind [and others] ; edited by Robert Bringhurst [and others]
- Publisher
- Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre
- Call Number
- 06.1 B76v
- Publisher
- Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre
- Published Date
- 1983
- Physical Description
- 239 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
- Abstract
- Pertains to a collection of post-war contemporary Canadian art work, focused between the years of 1945 and 1983. In addition to art work, the book contains a series of essays in attempts to further the reader’s pluralistic understanding of contemporary Canadian art. Rather than specific careers, the book seeks to identify the issues that Canadian contemporary art aims to address. Without constraints, the publication is edited to provide a cross-section of multiple artistic forms of expression, rather than confining oneself to a specific medium or genre.
- Contents
- Editor's Foreword (pg. 9)
- The Triumph of the Egg - Alvin Balkind (pg. 11)
- A sense of place - Terrence Heath (pg. 45)
- The Alternate Eden: A Primer of Canadian Abstraction - Gary Michael Dault (pg. 79)
- Redefining the role - Charlotte Townsend-Gault (pg. 123)
- The snakes in the garden: The Self and the City in contemporary Canadian Art - John Bentley Mays (pg. 157)
- Rethinking the art object - Diana Nemiroff (pg. 193)
- Notes (pg. 226)
- Suggestions for Further Reading (pg. 229)
- Index (pg. 231)
- ISBN
- 088894392x
- Accession Number
- 2019.71
- Call Number
- 06.1 B76v
- Collection
- Archives Library
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