The National Gallery of Canada : ideas, art, architecture /
"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 n...
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Montreal ; Ithaca :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2003.
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| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. From outside
- 2. From inside
- 3. Inviting in Lawren Harris
- 4. Inviting in Plato on grace and gracelessness
- 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
- 10. Humanism, "openness," and Jean Sutherland Boggs
- 11. Centennialism
- 12. The first triumvirate : the National Museums of Canada
- 13. The new triumvirate : Trudeau, Boggs, Safdie
- 14. A "magical spot."