History of art

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Honouring Tradition

By (author) Glenbow Museum
Categories: History of art

To explore the diverse ways this art can be understood, the Glenbow Museum invited Aboriginal elders, leaders and artists to share their perspectives with non-Native museum staff. The resulting dialogue ...

Vancouver Art & Economies

Edited by Melanie O'Brian
Categories: History of art

Since the mid-1980s, the once marginal city of Vancouver has developed within a globalized economy and become an internationally recognized centre for contemporary visual art. Vancouver’s status is ...

National Visions, National Blindness

By (author) Leslie Dawn
Categories: History of art

In the early decades of the twentieth century, the visual arts were considered central to the formation of a distinct national identity, and the Group of Seven’s landscapes became part of a larger program ...

An Illustrated Alphabet for the Illiterate

By (author) Rudolf Kurz & Elizabeth Kurz
Categories: History of art

‘Sin creates [ an inclination ] to sin; it engenders vice by repetition of the same acts. This results in perverse inclinations which cloud conscience and corrupt the concrete judgement of good and ...

Tales of Ghosts

By (author) Ronald W. Hawker
Categories: History of art

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 ...

Out of the Mist

By (author) Martha Black
Categories: History of art

Out of the Mist celebrates the art, culture and history of the Nuu-chah-nulth (formerly called Nootka) nations. It features the material culture – including many major art pieces – of the richly ...