For Folk's Sake
Art and Economy in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia
1st Edition
Published on 1. November 2016
424 pages
978-0-7735-9986-4 (ISBN)
Description
A radical re-examination of art in Nova Scotia and the place of folk art in the cultural hierarchy of the twentieth century.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Montreal, QC
Canada
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
76 photos, full colour throughout
76 photos, full colour throughout
File size
20,61 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7735-9986-4 (9780773599864)
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10/2016
2nd Edition
McGill-Queen's University Press
€47.00
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10/2016
McGill-Queen's University Press
€166.38
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Person
Morton Erin:
Erin Morton is professor of visual culture in the Department of History at the University of New Brunswick.Erin Morton is associate professor of visual culture in the Department of History at the University of New Brunswick.
Erin Morton is professor of visual culture in the Department of History at the University of New Brunswick.Erin Morton is associate professor of visual culture in the Department of History at the University of New Brunswick.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 The Historical Presentism of Folk Art
- 2 A Genealogy of Folk Art in Canada: Nostalgia and the Ancestry of Modern Art
- PART ONE: Art Institutions and the Institutionalization of Folk Art
- 3 "Behind Those Weathered Doors": Chris Huntington, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, and the Institutionalization of the Folkloric Future
- 4 Teaching the Self-Taught: Collins Eisenhauer, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and the Art-World Economies of Folk Art
- 5 "Tales of These Halcyon Days": The Centralized Decentralization of Regional Culture Making
- PART TWO: Maud Lewis and the Social Aesthetics of the Everyday
- 6 Ordinary Affects: Public History, Maud Lewis, and the Cultural Object of Optimism in Rural Nova Scotia
- 7 Commemorative Expectations: The Community-Corporate Model of the Maud Lewis Painted House Preservation
- 8 Art Works: The Maud Lewis Authority, Tourism, and Neoliberal Copyright
- CONCLUSION
- 9 The After Images and After Affects of Folk Art in the Present
- Illustrations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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