Traces of India depicts the social, political, and anthropological role of images, showing how they laid the historical foundations—real and imagined—on which an ordered empire may have been constructed, rather than an assemblage of colonial trading relationships. Organized around six themes, the exhibition explores some of the greatest architectural sites of the Indian(...)
Main galleries
15 May 2003 to 14 September 2003
Traces of India: Photography, Architecture, and the Politics of Representation
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Traces of India depicts the social, political, and anthropological role of images, showing how they laid the historical foundations—real and imagined—on which an ordered empire may have been constructed, rather than an assemblage of colonial trading relationships. Organized around six themes, the exhibition explores some of the greatest architectural sites of the Indian(...)
Main galleries
Architecture and Its Image examines the complex relationships between drawings, photographs, prints, and other architectural representations and the buildings, landscapes, and cities they represent. The exhibition assembles images dating from the early sixteenth century to the late twentieth century from Tokyo and Rome to Mississauga and Montreal and includes maps, books,(...)
7 May 1989 to 7 August 1989
Architecture and Its Image
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Architecture and Its Image examines the complex relationships between drawings, photographs, prints, and other architectural representations and the buildings, landscapes, and cities they represent. The exhibition assembles images dating from the early sixteenth century to the late twentieth century from Tokyo and Rome to Mississauga and Montreal and includes maps, books,(...)
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Reading Landscapes
Reading Landscapes
Laura Aparicio Llorente, Leonie Hartung, and Viveca Pattison Robichaud reflect on how the concept of landscape is developed through books
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Occluding Baghdad
Figuring Territory
28 November 2022
Occluding Baghdad
Amin Alsaden on the violence inflicted by depictions of the city in Western films
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Figuring Territory
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1965 or 1966?
Diagrammatic representation of the transmission of news in the Oxford Corner House
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engineering
Six identical leaflets with a humourous textual representation of the Forth Bridge
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engineering
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between 1967 and 1971
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