Research Catalog

Title

• On aboriginal representation in the gallery / edited by Lydia Jessup with Shannon Bagg.

Publication

Hull, Quebec : Canadian Museum of Civilization, c2002.

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Additional Authors

• Bagg, Shannon
• Canadian Ethnology Service
• Canadian Museum of Civilization
• Jessup, Lynda, 1956-

Description

xxx, 310 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"This illustrated collection is based on workshops held at the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Vancouver Art Gallery in March 2000. It includes sixteen original papers and seven synthesizing 'after-essays' that together reflect analytically adn incisively on policies and practices in recent historical and contemporary curatorial projects"--P. iii.

Series Statement

• Mercury series
• Paper / Canadian Ethnology Service ; 135

Uniform Title

• Mercury series
• Paper (Canadian Ethnology Service) no. 135.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Art museums > Canada
• Art, Canadian > 20th century
• Art, Canadian > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Indian art > Canada
• Inuit art > Canada
• Museum exhibits > Canada
• Museums > Acquisitions > Canada
• Native art > Canada
• Native art > Canada > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Includes abstract in French.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Hard inclusion / Lynda Jessup -- Our (inter) related history / Gerald McMaster -- First Nations perspective: the AGO or the Woodland Cultural Centre? / Tom Hill -- First Nations and art museums / Aldona Jonaitis -- Framing aboriginal art at the museum of Sydney / Wendy Brady -- After essay - questioning history, questioning art / Richard Fung -- Proper place for art or the proper arts of place? Native North American objects and the hierarchies of art, craft, and souvenir / Ruth B. Phillips -- Crossing new borders to exhibit Iroquois tourist art / Moira T. McCaffrey -- (Cultural) objects of (cultural) value: commodification and the development of a Northwest coast artworld / Aaron Glass -- After essay - indigenous is the local / Jolene Rickard -- Edmund Morris: speaking of First Nations / Jeff Thomas, Anna Hudson --
• Expanded visions: collaborative approaches to exhibiting first nations histories and artistic traditions / Trudy Nicks -- Cunningham collection of Haida Argillite at the art gallery of Ontario / Robin K. Wright -- After essay - what's the story? / Lynn A. Hill -- Anthropology of Inuit art: a problem for art historians / Shannon Bagg -- Status 2000: presenting contemporary Inuit art in the gallery setting / Christine Lalonde -- After essay - and what about Inuit art? / Jean Blodgett -- Weaving stories of art / Delores Churchill -- After essay - after words / Doreen Jensen, Rose Spahan -- Five suggestions for better living / Skawennati Tricia Fragnito -- Negotiating space for aboriginal art / Lee-Ann Martin -- Complex sightings: aboriginal art and intercultural spectatorship / Andrea Naomi Walsh --
• After essay - and also ... / Richard William Hill -- (Aboriginal) (representation) (in the museum): articulations of the creative, the organic and the instrumental / Clive Robertson

ISBN

0660187493

OCLC

49352352

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library