Title & Author:

Oh, Canada : contemporary art from north North America / edited by Denise Markonish.

Publication:

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2012.

Description:

399 pages : color illustrations, maps (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Published in the occasion of an exhibition at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.
Includes bibliographical references.
Buy America / Joseph Thompson -- A love letter to the Great White North / Denise Markonish -- Oh, Canada or: how I learned to love 3.8 million square miles of art north of the 49th parallel / Denise Markonish -- Canadian art: 1847-1985 / Robin Simpson -- British Columbia / Douglas Coupland -- Of histories and blind spots / Candice Hopkins -- Rebecca Belmore -- Douglas Coupland -- Allison Hrabluik -- Myfanwy MacLeod -- Luanne Martineau -- Between friends and strangers: paraphrasing the Yukon / Lance Blomgren -- Eryn Foster -- Charles Stankievech -- Joseph Tisiga -- The prairies: upon, above, within / Warren Cariou -- The irreality of becoming a living culture / Wayne Baerwaldt -- Eric Cameron -- The Cedar Tavern Singers aka Les Phonoréalistes -- DaveandJenn -- Terrance Houle -- Rita McKeough -- Chris Millar -- John Will -- Saskatchewan / Jen Budney -- Amalie Atkins -- Ruth Cuthand -- Wally Dion -- Clint Neufeld -- Manitoba / Cliff Eyland -- Noam Gonick -- Sarah Anne Johnson -- Wanda Koop -- Divya Mehra -- Nunavut / Nancy Campbell -- Suvinai Ashoona -- Annie Pootoogook -- Excerpt from The underpainter / Jane Urquhart -- Is here there? Ontario at the center of the periphery / David Liss -- Kim Adams -- Shary Boyle -- Bill Burns -- Kristan Horton -- Luis Jacob -- Micah Lexier -- Kelly Mark -- Kent Monkman -- Ed Pien -- Michael Snow.
French is the most beautiful language / Jacob Wren -- Art made in a place / Lesley Johnstone -- Gisele Amantea -- Nicolas Baier -- Dean Baldwin -- Daniel Barrow -- Patrick Bernatchez -- BGL -- Valérie Blass -- Michel de Broin -- Diane Landry -- Janet Werner -- The escape, 1978 / Lisa Moore -- 3+1=4 ... 1+1+2=4 / John Murchie -- Mario Doucette -- Andrea Mortson -- Graeme Patterson -- Janice Wright Cheney -- No man is an island -- and neither is Nova Scotia / Sarah Fillmore -- Michael Fernandes -- Garry Neill Kennedy -- Craig Leonard -- Kim Morgan -- Mitchell Wiebe -- Prince Edward Island / Pan Wendt -- Hans Wendt -- Newfoundland standard time / Bruce Johnson -- Ned Pratt -- The aitch of innocence / David Rakoff -- I didn't know they were Canadian / Steven Holmes -- Marcel Dzama -- Brendan Fernandes -- Hadley + Maxwell -- David R. Harper -- Etienne Zack -- My 360-degree dervish library / Louise Déry -- Some Canadians / Jack Risley -- Migration patterns of the Canadian artist.

Summary:

"The fact that Canada has a vibrant contemporary art scene is no secret to Canadians, but in other parts of the world, including the United States, this is not as recognized as it deserves to be. This wide-ranging, comprehensive survey of contemporary Canadian art, showcasing the work of artists from all across the country, will change that. These artists include those who have risen to international prominence - Michael Snow, Garry Neill Kennedy, and Marcel Dzama, among others - as well as many artists who have yet to be discovered outside Canada.
Oh, Canada (and the exhibition it accompanies at MASS MoCA) surveys nearly every province and territory, grouping artists by region, offering a new kind of travel guide with art as the main attraction. The result is not art that defines itself by national identity but rather some remarkable contemporary art that happens to be Canadian. Each section - from British Columbia and the Yukon to the Prairies and North, Ontario, Quebec, Atlantic Canada and the Ex-Pats - includes a text on the art of the region, interviews between artists, and examples of their work. Oh, Canada also includes a detailed exploration of today's Canadian art scene by the editor and whimsical shorter pieces in a variety of forms (travelogues, poems, even fiction) by other writers, among them Douglas Coupland and Jane Urquhart. An appendix offers two lists of Canadians you didn't know were Canadian - one compiled by an American and the other by a Canadian. Oh, Canada is an unprecedented, near-encyclopedic guide to Canadian contemporary art, and to Canada itself."--Pub. desc.

ISBN:

9780262018357 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262018357 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Art, Canadian 20th century.
Art, Canadian 21st century.
Art canadien 21e siècle.
Art canadien 20e siècle.
Art, Canadian

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Added entries:

Markonish, Denise.
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.

Contemporary art from north North America

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 280253
Call No.: BIB 216832
Status: Available