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A Question of Representation
13 January 2025
A Question of Representation
Ana María Durán Calisto on moving from extracting and renaming to enmeshing and re-Indigenizing
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Traces of India depicts the social, political, and anthropological role of images, showing how they laid the historical foundations—real and imagined—on which an ordered empire may have been constructed, rather than an assemblage of colonial trading relationships. Organized around six themes, the exhibition explores some of the greatest architectural sites of the Indian(...)
Main galleries
15 May 2003 to 14 September 2003
Traces of India: Photography, Architecture, and the Politics of Representation
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Description:
Traces of India depicts the social, political, and anthropological role of images, showing how they laid the historical foundations—real and imagined—on which an ordered empire may have been constructed, rather than an assemblage of colonial trading relationships. Organized around six themes, the exhibition explores some of the greatest architectural sites of the Indian(...)
Main galleries
Architecture and Its Image examines the complex relationships between drawings, photographs, prints, and other architectural representations and the buildings, landscapes, and cities they represent. The exhibition assembles images dating from the early sixteenth century to the late twentieth century from Tokyo and Rome to Mississauga and Montreal and includes maps, books,(...)
7 May 1989 to 7 August 1989
Architecture and Its Image
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Architecture and Its Image examines the complex relationships between drawings, photographs, prints, and other architectural representations and the buildings, landscapes, and cities they represent. The exhibition assembles images dating from the early sixteenth century to the late twentieth century from Tokyo and Rome to Mississauga and Montreal and includes maps, books,(...)
DR1982:0246
ca. 1751
PH1978:0289:002:001
engineering
1889
Leaflet with a humourous textual representation of the Forth Bridge
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PH1978:0289:002:001
engineering
books
AP058.S4.009
1944
A Study in urban planning: standard symbols and methods of representation
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AP058.S4.009
books
1944
DR1995:0224:342:001:003
1965 or 1966?
Diagrammatic representation of the transmission of news in the Oxford Corner House
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DR1995:0224:342:001:003
graphic materials
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6 ephemera
PH1978:0289:002:001-006
engineering
Six identical leaflets with a humourous textual representation of the Forth Bridge
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PH1978:0289:002:001-006
graphic materials
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6 ephemera
engineering
works of art
DR1983:1077
1686
Représentation de l'intérieur de la Ste-Maison de Lorette : représentation des murailles
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DR1983:1077
works of art
1686
textual records
AP058.S1.SS1.011
October 1979
Representation and Architecture: pre-conference proceedings of the North-East Regional Meeting of ACSA
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AP058.S1.SS1.011
textual records
October 1979