The Arts

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Framing Identity

By (author) Susan Close
Categories: Photography and photographs

Framing Identity defines photography as social practice and examines how women moved beyond making pictorial images to using photography as a form of speech to represent social issues. Key concepts and ...

Vancouver Art & Economies

Edited by Melanie O'Brian
Categories: History of art

Since the mid-1980s, the once marginal city of Vancouver has developed within a globalized economy and become an internationally recognized centre for contemporary visual art. Vancouver’s status is ...

National Visions, National Blindness

By (author) Leslie Dawn
Categories: History of art

In the early decades of the twentieth century, the visual arts were considered central to the formation of a distinct national identity, and the Group of Seven’s landscapes became part of a larger program ...

Music in Canada

By (author) Elaine Keillor
Categories: Music

Kwakwaka’wakw welcome songs, an aria from Joseph Quesnel’s 1808 opera Lucas et Cécile, rubbaboos (a combination of elements from First Peoples, French, and English music), the Tin Pan Alley hits ...

An Illustrated Alphabet for the Illiterate

By (author) Rudolf Kurz & Elizabeth Kurz
Categories: History of art

‘Sin creates [ an inclination ] to sin; it engenders vice by repetition of the same acts. This results in perverse inclinations which cloud conscience and corrupt the concrete judgement of good and ...

Un monde en soi

By (author) Christy Vodden & Ian G. Dyck
Categories: Theory of art

?partir des annes 1850, et travers des dizaines d?nnes marques par des guerres et une crise conomique mondiale, le manque d?rgent et de personnel et la difficult d?btenir un toit permanent, le muse national ...