Bringing art to life : a biography of Alan Jarvis /

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In 1959, Alan Jarvis - the brilliant and charismatic director of the National Gallery of Canada - was forced to resign following a disagreement with the government over the purchase of works by European Old Masters. He never fully recovered from this dismissal, or the public humiliation that followe...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Horrall, Andrew (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2009
Colección:McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history ; #2.
Temas:
Jarvis, Alan, > 1915-1972.
Jarvis, Alan, > 1915-1972
National Gallery of Canada > History.
Musée des beaux-arts du Canada > Histoire.
National Gallery of Canada
Art museum directors > Canada > Biography.
Directeurs de musée d'art > Canada > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Artists, Architects, Photographers.
ART > Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions > Permanent Collections.
ART > Museum Studies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
Art museum directors
Canada
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. "A Walking Work of Art": Introduction
  • 2. "A Curiously Mixed Background": Family and Childhood, 1915-1934
  • 3. "Douglas Duncan Invented Me": Undergraduate, 1934-1938
  • 4. "I May Come Home with an Accent
  • God Forbid": Europe, Oxford, and Darrington, 1938-1939
  • 5. "The Dead Days": Toronto and New York City, 1939-1941
  • 6. "Up to My Ears in the Business World": England, 1942-1945
  • 7. "To Build a New Kind of Society": The Council of Industrial Design, 1945-1947
  • 8. "A Break in a Million": Pilgrim Pictures, 1948-1950
  • 9. "I Certainly Hope 1950 Will Be Different": Oxford House, 1950-1955
  • 10. "A Museum without Walls": The National Gallery of Canada, 1955-1956
  • 11. "A Chamber of Horrors": The National Gallery of Canada, 1957-1959
  • 12. "Canada's Most Outspoken and Witty Man About the Arts": Toronto, 1960-1968
  • 13. "We Have Lost Our Sheep Dog": The Last Years, 1968-1972.

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