Title & Author:

Public art in Canada : critical perspectives / edited by Annie Gérin and James S. McLean.

Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2009.

Description:

x, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-331).
The wrong commemoration : Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith's paintings of the state funeral of Sir John Thompson / Eva Major-Marothy -- A drive through Canadian history : people, cars, and public art at Niagara Fall in the 1930s / Joan Coutu -- Camouflage series / Jason St-Laurent -- Public art and Canadian cultural policy : the airports / Bernard Flaman -- I nostri grandi Padri -- Heroic nationalism and the Italians of Montreal : the monument to Giovanni Caboto, 1935 / Anna Maria Carlevaris -- What's the point? / Jeff Thomas -- Mémoire ardente by Gilbert Boyer, or when politics penetrates contemporary art / Véronique Rodriguez -- Edmonton's city hall as visual archive and collector of memory / C.S. Ogden -- Cultural interventions in the public sphere / Bruce Barber -- Queering the streets : Johannes Zits and contemporary public art as activism / Daniel Faria -- Exhibiting madness in The Weyburn Project : situating performance/installation in an abandoned mental asylum / Kathleen Irwin -- Model for a public space / Adrian Blackwell -- Dark forces at Mount Allison University / Rebecca Burke -- Emerging urban aesthetics in public art : the thresholds of proximity / Julie Boivin -- Window (dis)plays : reality shopping / Kim Morgan -- Framing temporality : Montreal graffiti in photography / Ella Chmielewska -- Stardance / John Noestheden -- The public part of public art : technology and the art of public communication / James S. McLean.

Summary:

"Arguably, public art is experienced daily by more people than most offerings in galleries, yet our notion of what constitutes public art is surprisingly limited. Public Art in Canada broadens the critical discussion by exploring public art's varied means of engaging with public space and the public sphere. Annie Gerin and James S. McLean have assembled contributions from new and established Canadian scholars, curators, and artists. Each contributor enlivens our understanding of public art as a practice and its place in the social and aesthetic formation of which it is a part. As a result, the book provides an overview of the current debates in the field of public art that are informed by the theories and critical literature of art history, communication studies, cultural studies, sociology, and urban studies." "The rigorous essays and original works of art collected in this volume present a compelling demonstration of the strategies, aesthetic and otherwise, used by artists to elicit intellectual, sensual, or emotional responses that can only be obtained through artistic practices in public places. Public Art in Canada is a major contribution to the study of Canadian art and culture."--Jacket.

ISBN:

9780802098474 (bound)
0802098479
9780802095688 (pbk.)
0802095682

Subject:

Public art Canada.
Art public Canada.
Public art.
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Kunst
Öffentlicher Raum
Canada.
Kanada

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Gérin, Annie, 1969-
McLean, James S., 1956-

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 263028
Call No.: BIB 194122
Status: Available