Sights of Resistance: Approaches to Canadian Visual Culture

BELTON, Robert James

ISBN 10: 1552380114 / ISBN 13: 9781552380116

Published by Univ of Calgary Press, Calgary, 2001

About this Item

Offers an introduction to both Canadian visual culture and critical practice. This title includes both old favourites and many unfamiliar works of art, architecture, crafts, painting, photography, sculpture, and so on, placing emphasis on the study of a Native blanket as on the study of a legislative building. Dedicated inscription in the author's hand and with his signature. vii, 398 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. + 1 computer laser optical disc (4 3/4 in.) Useage instructions for the CD-Rom, laid-in. A 'mint' copy - bright, fresh and unmarked in a similar, unclipped dustjacket. Heavy book weighing 1.533kg. Size: Quarto.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sights of Resistance: Approaches to Canadian Visual Culture
• Publisher: Univ of Calgary Press, Calgary
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1552380114
• ISBN 13: 9781552380116
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Dedicated Author's Inscription & Signature
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art, Architecture & Design
  • Canadiana

About this title

Synopsis

Few books on Canadian art provide an in-depth look at more than one art form from a variety of practical critical perspectives. Sights of Resistance : Approaches to Canadian Visual Culture offers both breadth and depth in an innovative but accessible introduction to Canadian visual culture. Robert Belton has an impossibly ambitious goal -- to create a single-volume introduction to both visual culture and critical practice that neither creates a list of Canadian art's "greatest hits" nor promotes one way of knowing over another. Belton deliberately includes in his overview both old favourites and many unfamiliar works of art, architecture, crafts, painting, photography, sculpture, and so on, placing as much emphasis on the study of a Native blanket as on the study of a legislative building. He demonstrates how all aspects of Canadian visual art interrelate to form a cultural heritage that is as rich as it is varied. To this end, he endeavours to leave no tradition, time period, or geographical area unmentioned in the numerous case studies he inserts into a broader theoretical framework. The broader theoretical framework is supported by the substantial glossary on CD-ROM that both explains the case studies and provides opportunities for developing radically different perspectives -- and in this way the artwork becomes a site/sight of "resistance."

About the Author

Robert Belton has taught the history of art and art theory at McMaster University, the University of Western Ontario, and Queen's University. He is Associate Professor of Art History at Okanagan University College in Kelowna, B.C. Dr. Belton has published two other books with the University of Calgary Press: The Theatre of the Self: The Life and Art of William Ronald and Sights of Resistance: Approaches to Canadian Visual Culture.