| Description |
1 online resource (222 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| 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 MCMlCHAEL 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Art, Canadian.
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Art, Canadian. |
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Art museum curators -- Canada.
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Art museum curators. |
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Canada. |
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Art museums -- Canada.
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Art museums. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Murray, Joan. Confessions of a curator. Toronto : Dundurn Press, ©1996 1550022385 9781550022384 (OCoLC)35880538 |
| ISBN |
9781554881352 (electronic book) |
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1554881358 (electronic book) |
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9781459720411 (electronic book) |
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1459720415 (electronic book) |
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1550022385 |
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9781550022384 |
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