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Future possible : an art history of Newfoundland and Labrador /

Title: Future possible : an art history of Newfoundland and Labrador / editor, Mireille Eagan.
Publication: Fredericton, New Brunswick : Goose Lane Editions ; St. John's, NL : The Rooms Corporation of Newfoundland and Labrador, 2021.

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Eagan, Mireille, 1982-

Description

309 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 27 cm

Summary

"How do you begin to write an art history and what are the vital questions to ask? Which marks are most prominent in the visual culture of a particular place, and which are nearly invisible? 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 180 images of art and objects from the province's visual history, 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 work from the region's 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"--

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Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Catálogos de exposiciones

Note

Catalogue of two exhibitions: Future possible : art of Newfoundland & Labrador to 1949, May 12 to September 3, 2018 and Future possible : art of Newfoundland & Labrador 1949 to present, May 18 to September 22, 2019.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- Exhibitions -- Future possible : art of Newfoundland & Labrador to 1949 -- Future possible : art of Newfoundland & Labrador 1949 to present.

ISBN

9781773102047
1773102044

LCCN

2020476267
99989409997

OCLC

on1145340664
1145340664

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries