The National Gallery of Canada : ideas, art, architecture / Douglas Ord.

Main entry:

Ord, Douglas, 1950-

Title & Author:

The National Gallery of Canada : ideas, art, architecture / Douglas Ord.

Publication:

Description:

xii, 496 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-454) and index.
1. From outside -- 2. From inside -- 3. Inviting in Lawren Harris -- 4. Inviting in Plato on grace and gracelessness -- 5. Eric Brown : a gatherer of visions -- 6. Brown, "national spirit," and "futurism" -- 7. Vincent Massey and the transformation of rhetoric -- 8. Alan Jarvis as "the Billy Graham of Canadian art" -- 9. A Canadian tragi-comedy -- 10. Humanism, "openness," and Jean Sutherland Boggs -- 11. Centennialism -- 12. The first triumvirate : the National Museums of Canada -- 13. The new triumvirate : Trudeau, Boggs, Safdie -- 14. A "magical spot."
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"The National Gallery of Canada: Ideas, Art, and Architecture examines the National Gallery as an institution, a collection, and a series of sites for the display of the nation's art. Douglas Ord explores how, throughout the gallery's development, art has consistently been linked to notions of religious truth, national spirit, and hallowed atmosphere, culminating in Moshe Safdie's design for the institution's current building. Integrating accounts of political intrigue and public controversy with philosophy, art theory, and architectural analysis, Ord provides vivid accounts of successive directors' struggles to obtain a permanent home for the nation's art and sheds light on the place and the role of art in Canada."--Jacket

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0773525092 (alk. paper)
9780773525092 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Safdie, Moshe, 1938-
National Gallery of Canada.
Musée des beaux-arts du Canada.
Ottawa / Nationalgalerie.
National Gallery of Canada History.
Art, Canadian Canada.
Architecture Ontario Ottawa.
Art Canada.
Art theory.
Architecture (object genre) Canada Ontario Ottawa.
Museums Canada Ontario Ottawa 1980-2010.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 227616
Call No.: N910.O7 O8 2003
Status: Available

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