The National Gallery of Canada : ideas, art, architecture / Douglas Ord.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ord, Douglas, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National Gallery of Canada.

Art museums--Canada.

Art museums.

Physical Description:

xii, 496 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ord looks at the gallery's historical and intellectual context - from 1910 when Eric Brown became the gallery's founding director, through Jean Sutherland Boggs, to Shirley Thomson - shedding light on its acquisitions, government policy towards the arts, and the public's deep-rooted suspicion of avant-garde art. In showing how Canadian art came to be housed in a building whose architectural and ideological sources include Gothic cathedrals, Islamic mosques, Egyptian temples, St Peter's Basilica, and the squared-stone facades of the Holy City of Jerusalem, The National Gallery of Canada insightfully explores the relationship of Canada's art and its National Gallery to the project of the Canadian nation state.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Magnetic Space

From Outside

From Inside

Inviting in Lawren Harris

Inviting in Plato on Grace and Gracelessness

The Field Before (1910-65)

Eric Brown: A Gatherer of Visions

Brown, “National Spirit,” and “Futurism”

Vincent Massey and the Transformation of Rhetoric

Alan Jarvis as “the Billy Graham of Canadian Art”

A Canadian Tragi-Comedy

The Evolution of a Style (1966-90)

Humanism, “Openness,” and Jean Sutherland Boggs

Centennialism

The First Triumvirate: The National Museums of Canada

The New Triumvirate: Trudeau, Boggs, Safdie

A “Magical Spot”

Potentialities

“The Spiritual Foundations of Our National Life”?

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [441]-454) and index.

ISBN:

0-7735-7083-7

OCLC:

180704376