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Legitimizing the Artist

Manifesto Writing and European Modernism 1885-1915

by Luca Somigli
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the production of literary and cultural manifestoes enjoyed a veritable boom and accompanied the rise of many avant-garde movements. Legitimizing the Artist considers this phenomenon as a response to a more general crisis of legitimation that...
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Razing Africville

A Geography of Racism

by Jennifer Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009

In the 1960s, the city of Halifax razed the black community of Africville under a program of urban renewal and 'slum clearance.' The city defended its actions by citing the deplorable living conditions in Africville, ignoring its own role in the creation of these conditions through years of neglect...
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by Lauro Martines
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011

Lauro Martines' exhaustive search of manuscript material in the state archives of Florence is the basis for a fascinating portrayal of representative humanists of the period. The Social World of the Florentine Humanists explores the wealth, family tradition, civic prominence, and intellectual achievements...
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by Vernon Hyde Minor
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016

Intricate, expressive, given to grandeur and even excess, Baroque art as a style is inseparable from the meanings it seeks to convey. Vernon Hyde Minor’s Baroque Visual Rhetoric probes this combination of style and message and – equally importantly – the methodological basis on which the critical...
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Settling and Unsettling Memories

Essays in Canadian Public History

by Nicole Neatby, Peter Hodgins
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012

Settling and Unsettling Memories analyses the ways in which Canadians over the past century have narrated the story of their past in books, films, works of art, commemorative ceremonies, and online. This cohesive collection introduces readers to overarching themes of Canadian memory studies and brings...
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Defining the Modern Museum

A Case Study of the Challenges of Exchange

by Lianne McTavish
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013

Defining the Modern Museum is a fascinating exploration of the museum as a cultural institution. Emphasizing museums' relationship to schools, libraries, and government agencies, this interdisciplinary study challenges long-standing assumptions about museums – revealing their messy, uncertain origins,...
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by Eric Arthur, Stephen Otto
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017

Eric Arthur fell in love with Toronto the first time he saw it. The year was 1923; he was twenty-five years old, newly arrived to teach architecture at the University of Toronto. For the next sixty years he dedicated himself to saving the great buildings of Toronto's past. Toronto, No Mean City sounded...
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Enduring Empire

Ancient Lessons for Global Politics

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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2009

An exploration of the ways in which ancient theories of empire can inform our understanding of present-day international relations, Enduring Empire engages in a serious discussion of empire as it relates to American foreign policy and global politics. The imperial power dynamics of ancient...
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Boundaries of the City

The Architecture of Western Urbanism

by Alan Waterhouse
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994

In this study Alan Waterhouse draws on anthropological, social and cultural history, literature, and philosophy to reach an understanding of the roots of Western architecture and city building. He explores the illusion that cities are constructed to impose rational order, an order articulated through...
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Pride in Modesty

Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy

by Michelangelo Sabatino
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2011

Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects...
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At the Limits of Justice

Women of Colour on Terror

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Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014

The fear and violence that followed the events of September 11, 2001 touched lives all around the world, even in places that few would immediately associate with the global war on terror. In At the Limits of Justice, twenty-nine contributors from six countries explore the proximity of terror in their...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967

Mountain ranges are the most conspicuous elements of the earth's architecture, and the manner in which the architectural units are arranged or disarranged has become the study of a subdivision of geology known as Tectonics. A hundred years ago James Hall attempted the first scientific synthesis of...
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Leaders in the Shadows

The Leadership Qualities of Municipal Chief Administrative Officers

by David Siegel
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015

In most municipalities across Canada, the top public servant is the chief administrative officer (CAO) or city manager. Compared to elected politicians such as the mayor and the council, the work of a CAO is often overlooked and not well understood. In Leaders in the Shadows, David Siegel brings the...
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Candid Eyes

Essays on Canadian Documentaries

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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003

Beginning in 1922, when Robert Flaherty filmed 'Nanook of the North' in Canada's Arctic, and encouraged by John Grierson and the federal government in 1939 when they created the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), documentaries have dominated Canada's film production and, more than any other form,...
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