Modern in the making : post-war craft and design in British Columbia / Daina Augaitis, Allan Collier and Stephanie Rebick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Augaitis, Daina, writer of foreword, writer of introduction, organizer.

Vancouver Art Gallery, host institution, publisher.

Standardized Title:

Modern in the making (Vancouver, B.C.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Design--British Columbia--History--20th century--Exhibitions.

Design.

Handicraft--British Columbia--History--20th century--Exhibitions.

Handicraft.

Furniture design--British Columbia--History--20th century--Exhibitions.

Furniture design.

Pottery, Canadian--British Columbia--20th century--Exhibitions.

Pottery, Canadian.

History.

British Columbia.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

History.

Physical Description:

249 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

[Vancouver, British Columbia] : Vancouver Art Gallery ; Vancouver ; Berkeley : Figure.1, [2020]

Summary:

"From the aesthetics of postwar reconstruction to the functional objects that complemented 1950s West Coast Modern architecture and the expressive material forms of the 1960s and 70s, Modern in the Making acknowledges the many dimensions that defined British Columbia's cultural identity in the postwar era. It is the first volume to trace the evolution of Modern ceramics, weaving and fibre art, furniture, fashion and jewelry design produced between 1945 and 1975 in the Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island and the Okanagan."--From publisher's website.

Contents:

Director's foreword / Daina Augaitis

Introduction: Made in modern ways / Daina Augaitis

From prohibition to revitalization: Indigenous arts and cultural production in British Columbia during the 1950s / Michelle McGeough

"To have a new world"; or, contingent modernisms, colonialisms and rethinking the histories of design and culture in British Columbia / Michael J. Prokopow

Modern in the making: post-war craft and design in British Columbia / Allan Collier with Jenn Jackson and Stephanie Rebick

Biographical sketches / Allan Collier with Siobhan McCracken Nixon

Curator's acknowledgements

Photo credits and copyright notices.

Notes:

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Modern in the making: post-war craft and design in British Columbia, organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery, curated by Daina Augaitis, Interim Director; Allan Collier, Guest Curator; and Stephanie Rebick, Associate Curator; and presented from July 18, 2020, to January 3, 2021"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781773271224

1773271229

9781927656518

1927656516

OCLC:

1227647734

Bound With:

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