Confessions of a Curator
Adventures in Canadian Art
1st Edition
Published on 10. January 1996
296 pages
978-1-4597-2237-8 (ISBN)
Description
In this witty and compelling defence of the art field itself, Joan Murray, one of the country's most outspoken art historians, discusses the great figures of Canadian art and the rise of our national are in institutions such as the Art Gallery of Ontario.
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Joan Murray is director of the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa. Among Murray's many other books are The Best of Contemporary Canadian Art and Tom Thomson: The Last Spring .
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface: Provenance and Exhibition History
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Who was Joan Murray?
- 2 Canadian Art History is Born
- 3 O Canada!
- 4 Canadian Art History as an Institution
- 5 McMichael and Me
- 6 The Task of the Curator
- 7 Rites of Passage
- 8 The Many Trees of Thomson's West Wind
- 9 Abstraction: Visit to a Small Planet
- 10 Harold Town
- 11 The Journey of Alexandra Luke
- 12 Empowerment and the Canadian Woman Artist
- 13 The Prairie Gang
- 14 Canadian Working-Class Art
- 15 Criticism Reconsidered
- 16 What Is to Be Done?
- Index
- List of Illustrated Works of Art
- List of Figures
