Main entry:

Stanworth, Karen, 1955- author.

Title & Author:

Visibly Canadian : imaging collective identities in the Canadas, 1820-1910 / Karen Stanworth.

Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2014]
©2014

Description:

x, 458 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), map, portraits ; 26 cm

Series:

McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history ; 15

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE Visibly Ordered: Mid-Nineteenth-Century Museums and the Colonial Order of Things -- 1. A Picture of Quebec: Artifacts of Civilization -- 2. A Laboratory of Learning: The Educational Museum, Visual Culture, and Citizenship in Canada West -- 3. Whose Lessons? Subjects of the Colonial Archive -- pt. TWO Visibly Public: Spectacularizing Social Identities in Victorian Canada -- 4. Staging a Siege: Or, the Cultural Politics of Re-Producing Modern History -- 5. Bilingual Memories: A Souvenir of the Diamond Jubilee in Quebec City, 1897 -- 6. "The Body Corporate Gets a Wriggle On": The Civic Parade in Montreal, 1897 -- pt. THREE Visibly Related: Small Group Portraiture and the Display of the Social Self -- 7. "Born with a Silver Spoon and Fork": Photographic Testimonies of Acculturation, Montreal, 1873 -- 8. The Family Portrait: Portrait of the Artist as a Successful Man -- 9. Visual Rhetoric: Storytelling, History, and Identity in a Portrait of Three Friends.
Issued also in electronic format.
Text in English.

Summary:

Through nine case studies, each representing key moments of identity formation and contestation, this book investigates how a range of cultural phenomena, from fine arts to institutional histories to public spectacles, were used to order, resist, and articulate identities within specific social and economic contexts.

ISBN:

9780773544581 (cloth)
0773544585

Subject:

Art and society Québec (Province) History 19th century Case studies.
Art and society Ontario History 19th century Case studies.
Popular culture Québec (Province) History 19th century Case studies.
Popular culture Ontario History 19th century Case studies.
Group identity Québec (Province) History 19th century Case studies.
Group identity Ontario History 19th century Case studies.
Art et société Québec (Province) Histoire 19e siècle Études de cas.
Art et société Ontario Histoire 19e siècle Études de cas.
Culture populaire Québec (Province) Histoire 19e siècle Études de cas.
Culture populaire Ontario Histoire 19e siècle Études de cas.
Identité collective Québec (Province) Histoire 19e siècle Études de cas.
Identité collective Ontario Histoire 19e siècle Études de cas.
Art and society
Group identity
Manners and customs
Popular culture
Nationalbewusstsein
Kunst
Kultur
Québec (Province) Social life and customs 19th century Case studies.
Ontario Social life and customs 19th century Case studies.
Québec (Province) Moeurs et coutumes 19e siècle Études de cas.
Ontario Moeurs et coutumes 19e siècle Études de cas.
Ontario
Québec
Kanada

Form/genre:

Case studies.
History
Études de cas.

Added entries:

McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history ; 15.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 288380
Call No.: BIB 230058
Status: Available