PH2018:0005:035
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Photograph by Stefano Graziani of the following work: Giorgio Sommer, Teatro tragico Pompei, ca. 1870s, from Album Souvenir de Pompei, albumen silver print, 20.6 x 27.0, PH1980:0046:024, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal Questioning Pictures is a 36 photograph project commissioned by Fondazione Prada, Milan. Artist Stefano Graziani investigates archival and conservation systems in a number of museums. Through photographing museum objects, Graziani, focusing on the relationship between photographs, the museum objects and the power structures at play within institutions. The museums include the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montréal, Canada; Sir John Soane’s Museum in London, UK; the Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland; Museum Insel Hombroich in Neuss, Germany; the Museo di Castelvecchio in Verona, Italy; and the Plaster Cast Gallery at Museo Canova in Possagno, Italy.
2017
Questioning Pictures: Photograph of Teatro tragico Pompei from Souvenir album by Giorgio Sommer, ca.1870
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PH2018:0005:035
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Photograph by Stefano Graziani of the following work: Giorgio Sommer, Teatro tragico Pompei, ca. 1870s, from Album Souvenir de Pompei, albumen silver print, 20.6 x 27.0, PH1980:0046:024, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal Questioning Pictures is a 36 photograph project commissioned by Fondazione Prada, Milan. Artist Stefano Graziani investigates archival and conservation systems in a number of museums. Through photographing museum objects, Graziani, focusing on the relationship between photographs, the museum objects and the power structures at play within institutions. The museums include the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montréal, Canada; Sir John Soane’s Museum in London, UK; the Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland; Museum Insel Hombroich in Neuss, Germany; the Museo di Castelvecchio in Verona, Italy; and the Plaster Cast Gallery at Museo Canova in Possagno, Italy.
The exhibition examines the important role the Pantheon played in French artistic and political life from its foundation in 1744 well into the twentieth century. Coinciding with the international celebrations of the bicentennial of the French Revolution, the exhibition focuses on one of the central architectural episodes of the Revolution—the transformation of Saint(...)
Main galleries
19 September 1989 to 19 November 1989
Le Panthéon: Symbol of Revolution
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The exhibition examines the important role the Pantheon played in French artistic and political life from its foundation in 1744 well into the twentieth century. Coinciding with the international celebrations of the bicentennial of the French Revolution, the exhibition focuses on one of the central architectural episodes of the Revolution—the transformation of Saint(...)
Main galleries
Learning from… Ruscha and Venturi Scott Brown, 1962–1977 examines the relationship between the seminal illustrated books by artist Edward Ruscha and architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown that deal with the architecture and urbanism of the everyday in Los Angeles and Las Vegas during the 1960s and 1970s. Ruscha’s Every Building on the Sunset Strip and Venturi(...)
Octagonal gallery
31 March 2004 to 30 May 2004
Learning from… Ruscha and Venturi Scott Brown, 1962–1977
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Learning from… Ruscha and Venturi Scott Brown, 1962–1977 examines the relationship between the seminal illustrated books by artist Edward Ruscha and architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown that deal with the architecture and urbanism of the everyday in Los Angeles and Las Vegas during the 1960s and 1970s. Ruscha’s Every Building on the Sunset Strip and Venturi(...)
Octagonal gallery
photographs
PH1990:0334
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Commissioned by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, for "Ernest Cormier: Université de Montréal," 1988-1990.
May 1989
The tower, main pavilion, Université de Montréal (early evening), Montréal, Québec
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PH1990:0334
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Commissioned by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, for "Ernest Cormier: Université de Montréal," 1988-1990.
photographs
May 1989
photographs
PH1990:0335
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Commissioned by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, for "Ernest Cormier: Université de Montréal," 1988-1990.
Juillet 1989 / July 1989
Circular staircase at the corner of the main courtyard, view from above, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
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PH1990:0335
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Commissioned by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, for "Ernest Cormier: Université de Montréal," 1988-1990.
photographs
Juillet 1989 / July 1989
PH1990:0338
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Commissioned by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, for "Ernest Cormier: Université de Montréal," 1988-1990.
1989
Rear view of the main pavilion, showing (from left to right) the chapel and west wing, the auditorium (with tower above), and the east wing, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
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PH1990:0338
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Commissioned by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, for "Ernest Cormier: Université de Montréal," 1988-1990.
1989
photographs
PH1990:0339
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Commissioned by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, for "Ernest Cormier: Université de Montréal," 1988-1990.
May 1989
The tower, main pavilion, Université de Montréal (early evening), Montréal, Québec
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PH1990:0339
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Commissioned by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, for "Ernest Cormier: Université de Montréal," 1988-1990.
photographs
May 1989
The Université de Montréal and St. Joseph's Oratory seen from the southwest, Montréal, Québec
PH1990:0340
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Commissioned by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, for "Ernest Cormier: Université de Montréal," 1988-1990.
1989
The Université de Montréal and St. Joseph's Oratory seen from the southwest, Montréal, Québec
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PH1990:0340
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Commissioned by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, for "Ernest Cormier: Université de Montréal," 1988-1990.
1989
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PH1990:0344
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Commissioned by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, for "Ernest Cormier: Université de Montréal," 1988-1990.
May 1989
The tower, main pavilion, Université de Montréal (night), Montréal, Québec
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PH1990:0344
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Commissioned by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, for "Ernest Cormier: Université de Montréal," 1988-1990.
photographs
May 1989
photographs
PH1990:0347
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Commissioned by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, for "Ernest Cormier: Université de Montréal," 1988-1990.
September 1989
Main entry (detail), entrance hall, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
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PH1990:0347
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Commissioned by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, for "Ernest Cormier: Université de Montréal," 1988-1990.
photographs
September 1989