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Author Stanworth, Karen, 1955- author.

Title Visibly Canadian : imaging collective identities in the Canadas, 1820-1910 / Karen Stanworth
Published Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 458 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color
Series McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history ; 15
McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history ; 15.
Contents pt. ONE Visibly Ordered: Mid-Nineteenth-Century Museums and the Colonial Order of Things -- 1. A Picture of Quebec: Artifacts of Civilization -- 2. A Laboratory of Learning: The Educational Museum, Visual Culture, and Citizenship in Canada West -- 3. Whose Lessons? Subjects of the Colonial Archive -- pt. TWO Visibly Public: Spectacularizing Social Identities in Victorian Canada -- 4. Staging a Siege: Or, the Cultural Politics of Re-Producing Modern History -- 5. Bilingual Memories: A Souvenir of the Diamond Jubilee in Quebec City, 1897 -- 6. "The Body Corporate Gets a Wriggle On": The Civic Parade in Montreal, 1897 -- pt. THREE Visibly Related: Small Group Portraiture and the Display of the Social Self -- 7. "Born with a Silver Spoon and Fork": Photographic Testimonies of Acculturation, Montreal, 1873 -- 8. The Family Portrait: Portrait of the Artist as a Successful Man -- 9. Visual Rhetoric: Storytelling, History, and Identity in a Portrait of Three Friends
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Art and society -- Québec (Province) -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies
Art and society -- Ontario -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies
Popular culture -- Québec (Province) -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies
Popular culture -- Ontario -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies
Group identity -- Québec (Province) -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies
Group identity -- Ontario -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies
Art and society -- Ontario -- History -- 19th century
Art and society -- Québec (Province) -- History -- 19th century
Popular culture -- Ontario -- History -- 19th century
Popular culture -- Québec (Province) -- History -- 19th century
Group identity -- Ontario -- History -- 19th century
Group identity -- Québec (Province) -- History -- 19th century
ART -- General.
ART -- Canadian.
Art and society
Group identity
Manners and customs
Popular culture
SUBJECT Québec (Province) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Case studies
Ontario -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Case studies
Subject Ontario
Québec
Genre/Form Case studies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773596931
0773596933