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The National Gallery of Canada: Ideas, Art, Architecture

Douglas Ord

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Description:A wide-ranging intellectual history that examines the National Gallery as institution, as collection, and as a series of sites for the display of the nation's art. Douglas Ord explores how, in the gallery's development, art has consistently been linked to notions of religious truth, national spirit, and hallowed atmosphere, culminating in Moshe Safdie's design for the institution's current building. Integrating accounts of political intrigue and public controversy with philosophy, art theory, and architectural analysis, Ord provides vivid accounts of successive directors' struggles to obtain a permanent home for the nation's art. 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The National Gallery of Canada: Ideas, Art, Architecture. To get started finding The National Gallery of Canada: Ideas, Art, Architecture, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 496

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ISBN: 0773525092

Description: A wide-ranging intellectual history that examines the National Gallery as institution, as collection, and as a series of sites for the display of the nation's art. Douglas Ord explores how, in the gallery's development, art has consistently been linked to notions of religious truth, national spirit, and hallowed atmosphere, culminating in Moshe Safdie's design for the institution's current building. Integrating accounts of political intrigue and public controversy with philosophy, art theory, and architectural analysis, Ord provides vivid accounts of successive directors' struggles to obtain a permanent home for the nation's art. 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The National Gallery of Canada: Ideas, Art, Architecture. To get started finding The National Gallery of Canada: Ideas, Art, Architecture, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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