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Tear gas epiphanies : protest, culture, museums /

"Museums are frequently sites of struggle and negotiation. They are key cultural institutions that occupy an oftentimes uncomfortable place at the crossroads of the arts, culture, various levels of government, corporate ventures, and the public. Because of this, museums are be targeted by polit...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Robertson, Kirsty, 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2019]
Series:McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: museums, protest, and cities
  • Of directors, museums, and national identity
  • Protest at the threshold: a short history of contentious politics at Canadian museums, 1900-96
  • ;the UBC Museum of Anthropology as model
  • Crossing the threshold: counter-histories, museum exteriors, interiors, and archives
  • "She walked in and removed her work from the wall": artists agains Reed Paper at the Art Gallery of Ontario, 1976
  • Reactionary protest: the Warrior Nation and the Canadian War Museum
  • The postponement of The Lands Within Me: expressions by Canadian artists of Arab origin, 2001
  • "It takes a lot of wrongs to make a museum of rights": Indigenous resistance and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
  • Wendy Coburn: anatomy of a protest
  • When the land comes first: oil, museums and (missing) protest
  • Reversing the flow: yes men tackle the Canadian Government
  • "Intellectual properties": real estate, Occupy Vancouver, and the Vancouver Art Gallery
  • Stan Douglas and the Woodward's redevelopment.