The National Gallery of Canada
The National Gallery of Canada

Author: Douglas Ord

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 9780773525092

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"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."--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Annual Report
Annual Report

Author: National Museum of Canada

Publisher:

Published: 1928

Total Pages: 768

ISBN-13:

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"The National Museum of Canada, by W. H. Collins" (historical sketch of the museum): Annual report, 1926, p. 32-70.

Annual Report For...
Annual Report For...

Author: National Museum of Canada

Publisher:

Published: 1933

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13:

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"The National Museum of Canada, by W. H. Collins" (historical sketch of the museum): Annual report, 1926, p. 32-70.

Toward the 21st century / En vue du 21e siècle
Toward the 21st century / En vue du 21e siècle

Author: Leslie H. Tepper

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1989-01-01

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1772824283

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New directions in museum programming are presented in 13 papers representing a variety of perspectives that are guiding the transformation of Canada’s national museums in preparation for the twenty-first century. / Les nouvelles orientations de la programmation des musées sont présentées dans 13 articles, qui représentent des perspectives diversifiées guidant la transformation des musées nationaux du Canada en préparation du XXIe siècle.

Tales of Ghosts
Tales of Ghosts

Author: Ronald W. Hawker

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2007-10-01

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0774850442

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The years between 1922 and 1961, often referred to as the "Dark Ages of Northwest Coast art," have largely been ignored by art historians, and dismissed as a period of artistic decline. Tales of Ghosts compellingly reclaims this era, arguing that it was instead a critical period during which the art played an important role in public discourses on the status of First Nations people in Canadian society. Those with an interest in First Nations and Canadian history and art history, anthropology, museology, and post-colonial studies will be delighted by the publication of this major contribution to their fields.