Title Spaces and places for art : making art institutions in Western Canada, 1912-1990 / Anne Whitelaw

Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Series McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history. Contents Keen propagandists for Canadian art : establishing art galleries in Western Canada -- Managing the periphery : the National Gallery and regional museums -- From Kingston to Massey : developing a policy for culture in Canada -- Resisting the centre : the Western Canada art circuit -- Buildings, collections, and curators : professionalizing the art gallery -- The perils of decentralization : federal funding and art museums in Western Canada Summary "When the Edmonton Museum of Arts opened in 1924 it was only the second art gallery in Canada west of Toronto. Spaces and Places for Art tells the story of the financial and ideological struggles that community groups and artist societies in booming frontier cities and towns faced in establishing spaces for the cultivation of artistic taste. Mapping the development of art institutions in western Canada from the founding of the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 1912 to the 1990s heydey of art museums in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia, Anne Whitelaw provides a glimpse into the production, circulation, and consumption of art in Canada throughout the twentieth century. Initially dependent on paintings loaned from the National Gallery of Canada, art galleries across the western part of the country gradually built their own collections and exhibitions and formed organizations that made them less reliant on institutions and government agencies in Ottawa. Tracing the impact of major national arts initiatives such as the Massey Commission, the funding programs of the Canada Council, and the policies of the National Museums Corporation, Whitelaw sheds light on the complex relationships between western Canada and Ottawa surrounding art. Building on extensive archival research and in-depth analysis of government involvement, Spaces and Places for Art is an invaluable explanation of the roles of cultural institutions and cultural policy in the emergence of artistic practice in Canada."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Art museums -- Canada, Western -- History -- 20th century Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Canada, Western -- History -- 20th century Art and state -- Canada, Western -- History -- 20th century ART -- Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions -- Permanent Collections. ART -- Museum Studies. Art and state Art -- Collectors and collecting Art museums Cultural policy SUBJECT Canada, Western -- Cultural policy -- History -- 20th century Subject Western Canada Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780773550674 0773550674 9780773550681 0773550682 9780773550315 0773550313

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