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| Title: | Sights of Resistance
: Approaches to Canadian Visual Culture |
| Author: | Robert J Belton |
| ISBN: | 1552380114 : 9781552380116 |
| Illustrations: | colour & b/w illus |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 210x260mm |
| Pages: | 398 |
| Weight: | 1.525 Kg. |
| Published: | University of Calgary Press - February 2001 |
| List Price: | 35.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | THE ARTS: Canada |
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 offers both breadth & 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 & 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 & many unfamiliar works of art, architecture, crafts, painting, photography, sculpture, & 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 & provides opportunities for developing radically different perspectives -- & in this way the artwork becomes a site/sight of 'resistance'.
