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category: Art
published: Apr 2001
ISBN:9781552384503
publisher: University of Calgary Press

Sights of Resistance

Approaches to Canadian Visual Culture

by Robert J. Belton

tagged: canadian
Description

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 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 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, providing opportunities for developing radically different perspectives -- and in this way the artwork becomes a site/sight of "resistance."

About the Author

Robert J. Belton

Contributor Notes

Robert Belton has taught the history of art and aesthetic theory and criticism at McMaster University, the University of Western Ontario, and Queen's University. He is Associate Professor of Art History at UBC Okanagan in Kelowna and author of The Beribboned Bomb: The Image of Woman in Male Surrealist Art and The Theatre of the Self: The Life and Art of William Ronald.

Awards
  • Short-listed, Alberta Book Awards, Scholarly Book of the Year

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