Main entry:

Canadian Photography Institute, organizer, author, issuing body.

Title & Author:

Photography in Canada 1960-2000 / Canadian Photography Institute, Andrea Kunard.

Publication:

Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Photography Insitute : National Gallery of Canada, 2017.
©2017

Description:

175 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 27 cm

Notes:
Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Canadian Photography Institute of the National Gallery of Canada and presented at the National Gallery of Canada March 31-September 4, 2017.
"Fifth in a series of publications focusing on selected works from the collection of the Canadian Photography Institute of the National Gallery of Canada"--Title page verso.
"5"--Spine.
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Photography in Canada, 1960-2000: a selection from the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography and National Gallery of Canada Collections -- Catalogue -- Note.

Summary:

This fifth and final volume in the series dedicated to the National Gallery of Canada's immense photography collection documents the emergence of the medium as a recognized artistic discipline in Canada. The creation and growth of this unique collection reflects the enormous development in the practice, collection and display of photography over the latter half of the 20th century. Prior to this time, government institutions, commercial establishments and the legal, medical and journalism professions prized it for its documentary value. As a result, photographs rarely entered the collections of major institutions. This changed in the 1960s when art became more vigorous and dynamic. Photography especially articulated probing, contentious ideas of art, the artist, identity, sexuality and community. Art institutions, themselves undergoing radical transformation, acted as an interface between artist and public, and attempted to articulate movements and trends in art and photography. With dozens of full-page plates each accompanied by an individual abstract, the publication offers a scholarly essay providing artistic, cultural and historical context. Artists featured include those at the forefront of the changes in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as more contemporary figures who continue to push at the limits of the definition of the medium. They include Roy Arden, Raymonde April, Ed Burtnysky, Carol Condé and Karl Beveridge, Evergon, General Idea, Rodney Graham, Angela Grauerholz, Geoffrey James, Suzy Lake, Ken Lum, Gabor Szilasi, N.E. Thing Co, Ian Wallace and Jin-me Yoon.

ISBN:

9780888849489 (paperback)
0888849486 (paperback)

Subject:

Canadian Photography Institute Exhibitions.
National Gallery of Canada Exhibitions.
Musée des beaux-arts du Canada Catalogues.
Musée canadien de la photographie contemporaine Catalogues.
Canadian Photography Institute
National Gallery of Canada
Photography, Artistic History 20th century Exhibitions.
Photography Canada History 20th century Exhibitions.
Art museums Exhibitions Ontario Ottawa.
Photography, Artistic Exhibitions.
Photographie Canada Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Photographie artistique Expositions.
Photographie artistique 20e siècle Expositions.
Art museums Exhibitions
Photography
Photography, Artistic
Canada
Ontario Ottawa
1960-2000

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
History
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Kunard, Andrea, writer of supplementary textual content.
National Gallery of Canada, organizer, host institution, issuing body.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 294254
Call No.: BIB 239668
Status: Available