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Author : Louis Nicolas
Release : 2011
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 763/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas by : Louis Nicolas
Download or read book Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas written by Louis Nicolas. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A natural history and illustrations of the New World in the seventeenth century.
Author : François-Marc Gagnon
Release : 2011-09-29
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 233/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas by : François-Marc Gagnon
Download or read book Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas written by François-Marc Gagnon. This book was released on 2011-09-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part art, part science, part anthropology, this ambitious project presents an early Canadian perspective on natural history that is as much artistic and fantastical as it is encyclopedic. Edited and introduced by François-Marc Gagnon, The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas showcases an intriguing attempt to document the life of the new world - flora, fauna, and aboriginal. The book brings together for the first time the illustrated Codex Canadensis and The Natural History of the New World, following Gagnon's argument that both can be attributed to Louis Nicolas, a French Jesuit priest who travelled throughout Canada between 1664 and 1675. Histoire Naturelle des Indes Occidentales, originally written in classical French, has been put in modern French by Réal Ouellet and translated into English by Nancy Senior. The Natural History presents a pre-Linnaean botany and pre-Darwinian account of living things, including hundreds of species of plants and vivid descriptions of wildlife. It is thoroughly annotated, focusing on the contemporary identification of species, as the result of a pan-Canadian collaboration of experts in fields from linguistics to biology and botany. The Codex Canadensis, currently in the collection of the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is reproduced in full and provides both a fascinating visual account of wildlife as Nicolas saw it and a rare example of early Canadian art. Gagnon's introduction profiles Louis Nicolas and analyses connections between his work and European examples of natural illustration from the period. The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas shows how the wildlife and native inhabitants of the new world were understood and documented by a seventeenth-century European and makes available fundamental documents in the history and visual culture of early North America.
Author : Kristina Huneault
Release : 2012-04-11
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 830/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Rethinking Professionalism by : Kristina Huneault
Download or read book Rethinking Professionalism written by Kristina Huneault. This book was released on 2012-04-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of women and art in Canada has often been celebrated as a story of progress from amateur to professional practice. Rethinking Professionalism challenges this narrative by questioning the assumptions that underlie the category of artistic professionalism, a construct as influential for artistic practice as it has been for art historical understanding. Through a series of in-depth studies, contributors examine changes to the infrastructure of the art world that resulted from a powerful discourse of professionalization that emerged in the late- nineteenth century. While many women embraced this new model, others fell by the wayside, barred from professional status by virtue of their class, their ethnicity, or the very nature of the artworks they produced. The richly illustrated essays in this collection depict the changing nature of the professional paradigm as it was experienced by women painters, photographers, craftspeople, architects, curators, gallery directors, and art teachers. In so doing, they demonstrate the ongoing power of feminist art history to disrupt patterns of thought that have become naturalized and, accordingly, invisible. Going beyond the narratives of recovery or exclusion that the category of professionalism has traditionally encouraged, Rethinking Professionalism explores the very consequences of telling the history of women's art in Canada through that lens. Contributors include Annmarie Adams (McGill University), Alena Buis (Queen's University), Sherry Farrell Racette (University of Manitoba), Cynthia Hammond (Concordia University), Kristina Huneault (Concordia University), Loren Lerner (Concordia University), Lianne McTavish (University of Alberta), Kirk Niergarth (Mount Royal University), Mary O'Connor (McMaster University), Sandra Paikowsky (Concordia University), Ruth B. Phillips (Carleton University), Jennifer Salahub (Alberta College of Art & Design), and Anne Whitelaw (Concordia University).
Author : Sandra Alfoldy
Release : 2012
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 603/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Allied Arts by : Sandra Alfoldy
Download or read book Allied Arts written by Sandra Alfoldy. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering a wide range of craftspeople, materials, and forms, The Allied Arts investigates the history of the complex relationship between craft and architecture by examining the intersection of these two areas in Canadian public buildings.
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Release : 2020
Genre : Missionaries
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Book Synopsis Gender, Violence, and Science by :
Download or read book Gender, Violence, and Science written by . This book was released on 2020. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1664, the Jesuit missionary Louis Nicolas arrived in the St. Lawrence Valley of New France. He was supposed to convert Native Americans to Catholicism, but Nicolas instead used his time in Canada to fashion a new identity for himself as a natural philosopher, botanist, and all-around New World expert. He did this by observing North American people, plants, and animals, and acquiring material goods that he presented to the French Crown as curiosities. He compiled his observations into a multi-volume Histoire naturelle and a small illustrated work, now known as the Codex canadensis, in hopes of winning King Louis XIV or another member of the nobility as a patron. By examining these two works through the lenses of gender, violence, and science, it is possible to see the ways in which Nicolas sought to distance himself from the Jesuits, forge a new identity for himself, and gain prestige and wealth based on his knowledge of North America, presented in a way that endorsed French hegemony in Canada. This thesis will also examine how individual attempts at self-reinvention and social elevation shaped the way Europeans perceived cross-cultural interactions in North America and privileged their own developing modes of understanding the natural world and humanity.
