| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 496 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Contents |
Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE: MAGNETIC SPACE -- 1 From Outside -- 2 From Inside -- 3 Inviting in Lawren Harris -- 4 Inviting in Plato on Grace and Gracelessness -- PART TWO: THE FIELD BEFORE (1910�65) -- 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 -- PART THREE: THE EVOLUTION OF A STYLE (1966�90) -- 10 Humanism, Openness, and Jean Sutherland Boggs |
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11 Centennialism12 The First Triumvirate: The National Museums of Canada -- 13 The New Triumvirate: Trudeau, Boggs, Safdie -- 14 A Magical Spot -- 15 Potentialities -- EPILOGUE: The Spiritual Foundations of Our National Life? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-454) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
National Gallery of Canada.
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| SUBJECT |
National Gallery of Canada fast |
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Ottawa / Nationalgalerie. swd |
| Subject |
ART -- Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions -- Permanent Collections.
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ART -- Museum Studies.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Public, Commercial & Industrial.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780773570832 |
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0773570837 |
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