Future possible : an art history of Newfoundland and Labrador

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"How do you begin to write an art history and what are the vital questions to ask? Which marks are most prominent in the visual culture of a particular place, and which are nearly invisible? In Future Possible, Mireille Eagan and other writers and artists navigate the tangled histories and cultures of Newfoundland and Labrador to investigate the visual output and to write the narrative that it has created. The result is an ambitious volume, arisi...

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Art, Canadian Newfoundland and Labrador 20th century Exhibitions

Newfoundland and Labrador History Exhibitions

Newfoundland and Labrador In art Exhibitions

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ISBN:

9781773102047

Description:

309 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm

Notes:

Catalogue of two exhibitions: Future possible : art of Newfoundland & Labrador to 1949, May 12 to September 3, 2018 and Future possible : art of Newfoundland & Labrador 1949 to present, May 18 to September 22, 2019
Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Foreword / Anne Chafe
Fail better : the curator's approach / Mireille Eagan
The great leap forward : introduction / Jamie Fitzpatrick
Future possible, possibly horrible : the monologue / Andy Jones
Back to the future / Heather Igloliorte
Art among livyers / Jeff Webb
Cultural conflux / Darryn Doull
Of salt fish and molassess / Bushra Junaid
Folk, carnivalesque, kitsch / Cory Thorne and Kelley Totten
Cultural infrastructure for the visual arts / Patricia Grattan
Full tilt / Gerard Curtis
A curator's memories / Caroline Stone
Now you have burned your books / Craig Francis Power
"It just all seems so ordinary to me" / Mireille Eagan with Christopher Pratt
Tall timber on the rock / Logan MacDonald
Five specimens from another time / Lisa Moore
Scavenging a future / Eva Crocker
At the still point of the turning world / Andria Hickey
Exhibitions
Future possible : art of Newfoundland & Labrador to 1949
Future possible : art of Newfoundland & Labrador 1949 to present

LCCN:

2020476267

Control Number:

3196663

Other Authors:

Eagan, Mireille, 1982- editor

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