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2016 Visiting Scholar Olumuyiwa Adegun presents his research: European cities of the nineteenth century, like African cities today, experienced severe housing problems. Shanty towns marked Berlin and Paris in ways that are similar to how Nairobi and Johannesburg have been characterized by informal settlements in the last few decades. This lecture explores the history of(...)
2016 Visiting Scholar Olumuyiwa Adegun presents his research: European cities of the nineteenth century, like African cities today, experienced severe housing problems. Shanty towns marked Berlin and Paris in ways that are similar to how Nairobi and Johannesburg have been characterized by informal settlements in the last few decades. This lecture explores the history of(...)
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Shaughnessy House
Shaughnessy House
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4 August 2016, 6pm
4 August 2016, 6pm
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Visiting Scholar Seminar: Olumuyiwa Adegun
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2016 Visiting Scholar Olumuyiwa Adegun presents his research: European cities of the nineteenth century, like African cities today, experienced severe housing problems. Shanty towns marked Berlin and Paris in ways that are similar to how Nairobi and Johannesburg have been characterized by informal settlements in the last few decades. This lecture explores the history of(...)
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Olumuyiwa Adegun
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2016 Visiting Scholar Olumuyiwa Adegun presents his research: European cities of the nineteenth century, like African cities today, experienced severe housing problems. Shanty towns marked Berlin and Paris in ways that are similar to how Nairobi and Johannesburg have been characterized by informal settlements in the last few decades. This lecture explores the history of(...)
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4 August 2016
6pm
4 August 2016
6pm
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Shaughnessy House
Shaughnessy House
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Jacques Rousseau fonds
Jacques Rousseau fonds
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AP066
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Le Fonds Jacques Rousseau est constitué des archives professionnelles et personnelles de l'architecte. Le fonds comprend plus de 6000 dessins, 1000 documents photographiques et 4 mètre linéaire de documents textuels, relatifs aux projets d'architecture incluant des concours, à des expositions, à des dossiers personnels et professionnels, à sa formation universitaire et à ses enseignements. Les documents du fonds étaient produits entre 1963 et 1997.
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Le Fonds Jacques Rousseau est constitué des archives professionnelles et personnelles de l'architecte. Le fonds comprend plus de 6000 dessins, 1000 documents photographiques et 4 mètre linéaire de documents textuels, relatifs aux projets d'architecture incluant des concours, à des expositions, à des dossiers personnels et professionnels, à sa formation universitaire et à ses enseignements. Les documents du fonds étaient produits entre 1963 et 1997.
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1963-1997
1963-1997
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Jacques Rousseau fonds
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AP066
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Le Fonds Jacques Rousseau est constitué des archives professionnelles et personnelles de l'architecte. Le fonds comprend plus de 6000 dessins, 1000 documents photographiques et 4 mètre linéaire de documents textuels, relatifs aux projets d'architecture incluant des concours, à des expositions, à des dossiers personnels et professionnels, à sa formation universitaire et à ses enseignements. Les documents du fonds étaient produits entre 1963 et 1997.
Jacques Rousseau fonds
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AP066
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Le Fonds Jacques Rousseau est constitué des archives professionnelles et personnelles de l'architecte. Le fonds comprend plus de 6000 dessins, 1000 documents photographiques et 4 mètre linéaire de documents textuels, relatifs aux projets d'architecture incluant des concours, à des expositions, à des dossiers personnels et professionnels, à sa formation universitaire et à ses enseignements. Les documents du fonds étaient produits entre 1963 et 1997.
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archives
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archives
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1963-1997
1963-1997
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Territories are the complex set of relations to things that keep us alive. They are bound spaces, where intersecting borders establish semi-stable relations between polities and their material base of operations. A new intensification is reshaping the surface and the cycles of the Earth: the Anthropocene marks an exit from modern forms of territorial organization of(...)
Territories are the complex set of relations to things that keep us alive. They are bound spaces, where intersecting borders establish semi-stable relations between polities and their material base of operations. A new intensification is reshaping the surface and the cycles of the Earth: the Anthropocene marks an exit from modern forms of territorial organization of(...)
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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5 November 2015
5 November 2015
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John Palmesino: Territorial Agency
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Territories are the complex set of relations to things that keep us alive. They are bound spaces, where intersecting borders establish semi-stable relations between polities and their material base of operations. A new intensification is reshaping the surface and the cycles of the Earth: the Anthropocene marks an exit from modern forms of territorial organization of(...)
John Palmesino: Territorial Agency
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Territories are the complex set of relations to things that keep us alive. They are bound spaces, where intersecting borders establish semi-stable relations between polities and their material base of operations. A new intensification is reshaping the surface and the cycles of the Earth: the Anthropocene marks an exit from modern forms of territorial organization of(...)
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5 November 2015
5 November 2015
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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Realism and Illusion: Catherine Wagner Photographs the Disney Theme Parks presents a visual essay of the Disney theme parks in Anaheim, Orlando, Tokyo, and Paris. Fascinated by the importance of illusion in the design and layout of the parks, Wagner aspired “to add yet another layer of deception to this already simulated world, our world, where illusion is now more real(...)
Realism and Illusion: Catherine Wagner Photographs the Disney Theme Parks presents a visual essay of the Disney theme parks in Anaheim, Orlando, Tokyo, and Paris. Fascinated by the importance of illusion in the design and layout of the parks, Wagner aspired “to add yet another layer of deception to this already simulated world, our world, where illusion is now more real(...)
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Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
Date:
17 June 1997 to 28 September 1997
17 June 1997 to 28 September 1997
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Realism and Illusion: Catherine Wagner Photographs the Disney Theme Parks
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Realism and Illusion: Catherine Wagner Photographs the Disney Theme Parks presents a visual essay of the Disney theme parks in Anaheim, Orlando, Tokyo, and Paris. Fascinated by the importance of illusion in the design and layout of the parks, Wagner aspired “to add yet another layer of deception to this already simulated world, our world, where illusion is now more real(...)
Realism and Illusion: Catherine Wagner Photographs the Disney Theme Parks
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Realism and Illusion: Catherine Wagner Photographs the Disney Theme Parks presents a visual essay of the Disney theme parks in Anaheim, Orlando, Tokyo, and Paris. Fascinated by the importance of illusion in the design and layout of the parks, Wagner aspired “to add yet another layer of deception to this already simulated world, our world, where illusion is now more real(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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17 June 1997 to
28 September 1997
17 June 1997 to
28 September 1997
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Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
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Learning from... Cairo
Learning from... Cairo
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Nasser Rabbat challenges the traditional framing strategies of East vs. West or traditional vs. modern, focusing instead on the dialectical relationship of modernity and history in the making of contemporary Cairo. Shaped by distinct waves of modernity from the colonial Napoleonic invasion of 1789 to the revolution and independence in 1952, the city responded with layers(...)
Nasser Rabbat challenges the traditional framing strategies of East vs. West or traditional vs. modern, focusing instead on the dialectical relationship of modernity and history in the making of contemporary Cairo. Shaped by distinct waves of modernity from the colonial Napoleonic invasion of 1789 to the revolution and independence in 1952, the city responded with layers(...)
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Date:
15 September 2011 , 7pm
15 September 2011 , 7pm
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Learning from... Cairo
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Nasser Rabbat challenges the traditional framing strategies of East vs. West or traditional vs. modern, focusing instead on the dialectical relationship of modernity and history in the making of contemporary Cairo. Shaped by distinct waves of modernity from the colonial Napoleonic invasion of 1789 to the revolution and independence in 1952, the city responded with layers(...)
Learning from... Cairo
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Nasser Rabbat challenges the traditional framing strategies of East vs. West or traditional vs. modern, focusing instead on the dialectical relationship of modernity and history in the making of contemporary Cairo. Shaped by distinct waves of modernity from the colonial Napoleonic invasion of 1789 to the revolution and independence in 1952, the city responded with layers(...)
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15 September 2011
7pm
15 September 2011
7pm
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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Naoya Hatakeyama: Scales
Naoya Hatakeyama: Scales
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The work of Japanese artist Naoya Hatakeyama is concerned largely with the relationship between nature and cities. Comissioned by the CCA, the three series of photographs comprising Scales capture existing architectural models of New York City and Tokyo in a way that challenges notions of scale and the perception of reality. Naoya Hatakeyama: Scales is the fourth and(...)
The work of Japanese artist Naoya Hatakeyama is concerned largely with the relationship between nature and cities. Comissioned by the CCA, the three series of photographs comprising Scales capture existing architectural models of New York City and Tokyo in a way that challenges notions of scale and the perception of reality. Naoya Hatakeyama: Scales is the fourth and(...)
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Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
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27 September 2007 to 3 February 2008
27 September 2007 to 3 February 2008
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Naoya Hatakeyama: Scales
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The work of Japanese artist Naoya Hatakeyama is concerned largely with the relationship between nature and cities. Comissioned by the CCA, the three series of photographs comprising Scales capture existing architectural models of New York City and Tokyo in a way that challenges notions of scale and the perception of reality. Naoya Hatakeyama: Scales is the fourth and(...)
Naoya Hatakeyama: Scales
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The work of Japanese artist Naoya Hatakeyama is concerned largely with the relationship between nature and cities. Comissioned by the CCA, the three series of photographs comprising Scales capture existing architectural models of New York City and Tokyo in a way that challenges notions of scale and the perception of reality. Naoya Hatakeyama: Scales is the fourth and(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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27 September 2007 to
3 February 2008
27 September 2007 to
3 February 2008
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Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
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AP161
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- La collection est composée d’objets reliés au « Manifeste » de Gilles Clément, présenté lors de l’exposition « Environ(ne)ment » au Centre canadien d’architecture du 18 octobre 2006 au 10 juin 2007.
AP161
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- La collection est composée d’objets reliés au « Manifeste » de Gilles Clément, présenté lors de l’exposition « Environ(ne)ment » au Centre canadien d’architecture du 18 octobre 2006 au 10 juin 2007.
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1995-2006
1995-2006
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Gilles Clément’s Manifesto for the “Environment” exhibition collection
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AP161
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- La collection est composée d’objets reliés au « Manifeste » de Gilles Clément, présenté lors de l’exposition « Environ(ne)ment » au Centre canadien d’architecture du 18 octobre 2006 au 10 juin 2007.
Gilles Clément’s Manifesto for the “Environment” exhibition collection
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AP161
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- La collection est composée d’objets reliés au « Manifeste » de Gilles Clément, présenté lors de l’exposition « Environ(ne)ment » au Centre canadien d’architecture du 18 octobre 2006 au 10 juin 2007.
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archives
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Collection 161
archives
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Collection 161
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1995-2006
1995-2006
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Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
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Main galleries
Main galleries
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16 May 2012 to 14 October 2012
16 May 2012 to 14 October 2012
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Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling
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Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling
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Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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16 May 2012 to
14 October 2012
16 May 2012 to
14 October 2012
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Main galleries
Main galleries
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Learning from... Mexico City
Learning from... Mexico City
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Arturo Ortiz Struck describes the boundaries of formal and legal building in the context of Mexico:“In order to build a critical view of the production of space and architecture in this environment, we should start from two fundamental premises. The first considers that spaces reflect who we are, and they express our cultural ways and how we unfold in everyday life. The(...)
Arturo Ortiz Struck describes the boundaries of formal and legal building in the context of Mexico:“In order to build a critical view of the production of space and architecture in this environment, we should start from two fundamental premises. The first considers that spaces reflect who we are, and they express our cultural ways and how we unfold in everyday life. The(...)
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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10 May 2012 , 7pm
10 May 2012 , 7pm
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Learning from... Mexico City
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Arturo Ortiz Struck describes the boundaries of formal and legal building in the context of Mexico:“In order to build a critical view of the production of space and architecture in this environment, we should start from two fundamental premises. The first considers that spaces reflect who we are, and they express our cultural ways and how we unfold in everyday life. The(...)
Learning from... Mexico City
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Arturo Ortiz Struck describes the boundaries of formal and legal building in the context of Mexico:“In order to build a critical view of the production of space and architecture in this environment, we should start from two fundamental premises. The first considers that spaces reflect who we are, and they express our cultural ways and how we unfold in everyday life. The(...)
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events
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10 May 2012
7pm
10 May 2012
7pm
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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photographs
photographs
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DR2012:0012:089:003
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Ring binder containing slides of photographs taken at the following exhibitions of Melvin Charney's work from 1970 to 2000: - Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1978 (22 slides, including 3 duplicates); - 49th Parallel, New York City, 1984 (3 slides); - Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, 1990 (13 slides of the installation "In flight... Selavy"); - Musée des beaux-arts, Montréal, 1983 (11 slides of the installation "Pliny on my mind"); - Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal 1991 (76 slides of the series "Parables and other allegories", including 31 duplicates); - Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, 2001 (20 slides, including 17 duplicates); - Musée des arts contemporain, Montréal, 2002 (70 slides, including 35 duplicates); - Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, 2002 (13 slides). Binder labelled: MC EXHIBITIONS / 1970-2000
DR2012:0012:089:003
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Ring binder containing slides of photographs taken at the following exhibitions of Melvin Charney's work from 1970 to 2000: - Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1978 (22 slides, including 3 duplicates); - 49th Parallel, New York City, 1984 (3 slides); - Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, 1990 (13 slides of the installation "In flight... Selavy"); - Musée des beaux-arts, Montréal, 1983 (11 slides of the installation "Pliny on my mind"); - Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal 1991 (76 slides of the series "Parables and other allegories", including 31 duplicates); - Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, 2001 (20 slides, including 17 duplicates); - Musée des arts contemporain, Montréal, 2002 (70 slides, including 35 duplicates); - Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, 2002 (13 slides). Binder labelled: MC EXHIBITIONS / 1970-2000
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1978-2002
1978-2002
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Photographs of Melvin Charney's exhibitions
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DR2012:0012:089:003
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Ring binder containing slides of photographs taken at the following exhibitions of Melvin Charney's work from 1970 to 2000: - Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1978 (22 slides, including 3 duplicates); - 49th Parallel, New York City, 1984 (3 slides); - Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, 1990 (13 slides of the installation "In flight... Selavy"); - Musée des beaux-arts, Montréal, 1983 (11 slides of the installation "Pliny on my mind"); - Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal 1991 (76 slides of the series "Parables and other allegories", including 31 duplicates); - Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, 2001 (20 slides, including 17 duplicates); - Musée des arts contemporain, Montréal, 2002 (70 slides, including 35 duplicates); - Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, 2002 (13 slides). Binder labelled: MC EXHIBITIONS / 1970-2000
Photographs of Melvin Charney's exhibitions
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DR2012:0012:089:003
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Ring binder containing slides of photographs taken at the following exhibitions of Melvin Charney's work from 1970 to 2000: - Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1978 (22 slides, including 3 duplicates); - 49th Parallel, New York City, 1984 (3 slides); - Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, 1990 (13 slides of the installation "In flight... Selavy"); - Musée des beaux-arts, Montréal, 1983 (11 slides of the installation "Pliny on my mind"); - Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal 1991 (76 slides of the series "Parables and other allegories", including 31 duplicates); - Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, 2001 (20 slides, including 17 duplicates); - Musée des arts contemporain, Montréal, 2002 (70 slides, including 35 duplicates); - Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, 2002 (13 slides). Binder labelled: MC EXHIBITIONS / 1970-2000
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photographs
photographs
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1978-2002
1978-2002
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