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For folk's sake : art and economy in twentieth-century Nova Scotia /

"Folk art emerged in twentieth-century Nova Scotia not as an accident of history, but in tandem with cultural policy developments that shaped art institutions across the province between 1967 and 1997. For Folk's Sake charts how woodcarvings and paintings by well-known and obscure self-tau...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morton, Erin, 1981- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016.
Colección:McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • INTRODUCTION 1 The Historical Presentism of Folk Art
  • 2 A Genealogy of Folk Art in Canada: Nostalgia and the Ancestry of Modern Art.
  • PART ONE Art Institutions and the Institutionalization of Folk Art. 3 "Behind ThoseWeathered Doors": Chris Huntington, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, and the Institutionalization of the Folkloric Future
  • 4 Teaching the Self-Taught: Collins Eisenhauer, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and the Art-World Economies of Folk Art
  • 5 "Tales of These Halcyon Days": The Centralized Decentralization of Regional Culture Making.
  • PART TWO Maud Lewis and the Social Aesthetics ofthe Everyday. 6 Ordinary Affects: Public History, Maud Lewis, and the Cultural Object of Optimism in Rural Nova Scotia
  • 7 Commemorative Expectations: The Community-CorporateModel of the Maud Lewis Painted House Preservation
  • 8 Art Works: TheMaud Lewis Authority, Tourism, and Neoliberal Copyright.