National Gallery of Canada: Ideas, Art, ArchitectureMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 26.05.2003 - 464 Seiten Ord looks at the gallery's historical and intellectual context - from 1910 when Eric Brown became the gallery's founding director, through Jean Sutherland Boggs, to Shirley Thomson - shedding light on its acquisitions, government policy towards the arts, and the public's deep-rooted suspicion of avant-garde art. In showing how Canadian art came to be housed in a building whose architectural and ideological sources include Gothic cathedrals, Islamic mosques, Egyptian temples, St Peter's Basilica, and the squared-stone facades of the Holy City of Jerusalem, The National Gallery of Canada insightfully explores the relationship of Canada's art and its National Gallery to the project of the Canadian nation state. |
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THE FIELD BEFORE 191065 | 53 |
THE EVOLUTION OF A STYLE 196690 | 185 |
The Spiritual Foundations of Our National Life? | 367 |
Notes | 399 |
Bibliography | 441 |
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