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Future possible : an art history of Newfoundland and Labrador / editor, Mireille Eagan.
LIBRA F1123 .F78 2021
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Newfoundland and Labrador--History--Exhibitions.
- Newfoundland and Labrador.
- Newfoundland and Labrador--In art--Exhibitions.
- Art objects--Newfoundland and Labrador--Exhibitions.
- Art objects.
- Art, Canadian--Newfoundland and Labrador--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Art, Canadian.
- Genre:
- exhibition catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 309 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada : The Rooms ; Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada : Goose Lane Editions, [2021]
- Summary:
- "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, arising from a two-part exhibition of the same name at The Rooms, that provides a multi-vocal, multi-faceted history spanning pre- and post-Confederation Newfoundland. Lavishly illustrated with reproductions of original works and installation views, Future Possible features essays by curators and artists on topics such as pre-Confederation art; contemporary art, craft, and Indigenous culture; and outsider and folk art. This intriguing volume places artifacts from the province's history and work by iconic Newfoundland and Labrador artists such as Gerald Squires and Mary Pratt in conversation with works by contemporary artists like Jordan Bennett and Kym Greeley. Together they explore how history is told and retold through objects and images and how these objects and images, and the power structures that preserve them, define an understanding of place."-- Publisher's webpage.
- 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
- The exhibitions. Future possible : art of Newfoundland & Labrador to 1949
- Future possible : art of Newfoundland & Labrador 1949 to present.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781773102047
- 1773102044
- OCLC:
- 1145340664
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