| ISBN |
9780773549784 (cloth) |
| 9780773549791 (paper) |
| Title |
Narratives unfolding : national art histories in an unfinished world / edited by Martha Langford. |
| Portion of title |
National art histories in an unfinished world |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2017] |
| ©2017. |
| Description |
xviii, 437 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-416) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Martha Langford -- Playing out the "differences" in "Turkish" art-historical narratives / Ceren Özpinar -- Race, Irishness, and art history : Margaret Clarke's Bath time at the Crèche (1925), Motherhood, and the Matter of whiteness / Fionna Barber -- Problems of translation : Lyonel Feininger and Gaganendranath Tagore at the Fourteenth Annual Indian Society of Oriental Art Exhibition, Kolkata, India / Martin Beattie -- Some notes on applying postcolonial methodologies to architectural history research in Israel/Palestine / Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler -- "Draw me a sheep!" Contemporary responses to the histories of art education, surrealism, and psychoanalysis in Egypt / Tammer El-Sheikh -- Historical archives and contemporary art : the case of the Umm el-Fahem Gallery in Palestine/Israel / Merav Yerushalmy -- Dalriada, the lordship of the isles, and the northern rim : decentralizing the visual culture of the highlands and islands of Scotland / Lindsay Blair -- New maps for networks : Reykjavik Fluxus -- a case of connections / Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir -- Hitching a ride : American know-how in the engineering of Canadian photographic institutions / Martha Langford -- Migratory affiliations : contemporary Romanian art / Corina Ilea -- Maraya's Sisyphean cart : twinned visions of Vancouver and Dubai / Alice Ming Wai Jim -- Urban art histories (in Canada) / Johanne Sloan -- A stranger in New York / Steve Lyons -- Mending walls : imagining the sovereign subject in contemporary exhibition practices / Erin Silver -- Embodying sovereignty : indigenous women's performance art in Canada / Carla Taunton. |
| Summary |
"Somewhere between global and local, the nation still lingers as a concept. National art histories continue to be written--some for the first time--while innovative methods and practices redraw the boundaries of these imagined communities. Narratives Unfolding considers the mobility of ideas, transnationalism, and entangled histories in essays that define new ways to see national art in ever-changing nations. Examining works that were designed to reclaim or rethink issues of territory and dispossession, home and exile, contributors to this volume demonstrate that the writing of national art histories is a vital project for intergenerational exchange of knowledge and its visual formations. Essays showcase revealing moments of modern and contemporary art history in Canada, Egypt, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel/Palestine, Romania, Scotland, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates, paying particular attention to the agency of institutions such as archives, art galleries, milestone exhibitions, and artist retreats. Old and emergent art cities, including Cairo, Dubai, New York, and Vancouver, are also examined in light of avant-gardism, cosmopolitanism, and migration. Narratives Unfolding is both a survey of current art historical approaches and their connection to the source: art-making and art experience happening somewhere."-- |
| Subjects |
Art -- Historiography |
| Other Authors &/or Associated Persons |
Langford, Martha (editor.) |
| Series |
McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history |
| Call number |
2018.555 |
