Narratives unfolding : national art histories in an unfinished world

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"Somewhere between global and local, the nation still lingers as a concept. National art histories continue to be written--some for the first time--while innovative methods and practices redraw the boundaries of these imagined communities. Narratives Unfolding considers the mobility of ideas, transnationalism, and entangled histories in essays that define new ways to see national art in ever-changing nations. Examining works that were designed to...

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Art Historiography

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McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history

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ISBN:

9780773549791
077354979X

Description:

xviii, 437 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm

Other Title:

National art histories in an unfinished world

Notes:

Canadiana
Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Introduction / Martha Langford
Playing out the "differences" in "Turkish" art-historical narratives / Ceren Özpinar
Race, Irishness, and art history : Margaret Clarke's Bath time at the Crèche (1925), Motherhood, and the Matter of whiteness / Fionna Barber
Problems of translation : Lyonel Feininger and Gaganendranath Tagore at the Fourteenth Annual Indian Society of Oriental Art Exhibition, Kolkata, India / Martin Beattie
Some notes on applying postcolonial methodologies to architectural history research in Israel/Palestine / Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler
"Draw me a sheep!" Contemporary responses to the histories of art education, surrealism, and psychoanalysis in Egypt / Tammer El-Sheikh
Historical archives and contemporary art : the case of the Umm el-Fahem Gallery in Palestine/Israel / Merav Yerushalmy
Dalriada, the lordship of the isles, and the northern rim : decentralizing the visual culture of the highlands and islands of Scotland / Lindsay Blair
New maps for networks : Reykjavik Fluxus--a case of connections / Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir
Hitching a ride : American know-how in the engineering of Canadian photographic institutions / Martha Langford
Migratory affiliations : contemporary Romanian art / Corina Ilea
Maraya's Sisyphean cart : twinned visions of Vancouver and Dubai / Alice Ming Wai Jim
Urban art histories (in Canada) / Johanne Sloan
A stranger in New York / Steve Lyons
Mending walls : imagining the sovereign subject in contemporary exhibition practices / Erin Silver
Embodying sovereignty : indigenous women's performance art in Canada / Carla Taunton

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2220590

Other Authors:

Langford, Martha, author, editor

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