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RACAR Vol XXVI, 1-2 1999

Published in August 2002/Publié en aout 2002)

 

Postures
et impostures de l'artiste moderne/Myths of the Modern Artist: Exposing the
Pose

 

Sous la
direction de/Guest Editors - Nicole Dubreuil et Johanne Lamoureux, Université
de Montréal

 

 

Contents/Sommaire

 

L'atelier institué en portrait de l'artiste moderne dans
la littérature du XIXe siècle

VERONIQUE RODRIGUEZ

 

Vaporization and/or Centralization: On the (Self)
Portraits of Manet and Degas

VICTOR I. STOICHITA

 

Artists and After-Lives

HEATHER DAWKINS

 

Renoir, susceptibilités épidermiques

NICOLE DUBREUIL

 

La mise en lumière des indépendants. Le mythe de
l'artiste isolé chez les écrivains symbolistes français

FRANÇOIS LUCBERT

 

Paradigme ou modèle: Les héritiers de Van Gogh et les
paradoxes de l'authenticité

NATHALIE HEINICH

 

"T'Other Emily:" Emily Carr, the Modern
Woman Artist and Dilemmas of Gender

GERTA MORAY

 

Virtual (Art) History 

DONALD PREZIOSI

 

In memoriam: Through Feminist Eyes: In Memory of
Natalie Luckyj

CYNTHIA HAMMOND

 

LIVRES/BOOKS

 

Nathalie Heinich Ce que l'art fait à la sociologie

Reviewed by Francine Couture

 

Kay Dian Kriz The Idea of the English Landscape
Painter: Genius as Alibi in the Early Nineteenth Century -
Reviewed by
Adele Ernstrom

 

Catherine M. Soussloff, The Absolute Artist: The
Historiography of a Concept

Reviewed by Allister Neher

 

Kevin D. Murphy Memory and Modernity:
Viollet-le-Duc at Vézelay

Reviewed by Christopher Thomas

 

Kalman P. Bland, The Artless Jew: Medieval and
Modern Affirmations and Denials of the Visual

Reviewed by Carol Zemel

RACAR Vol XXIV, # 1 / 1997



RACAR Vol XXIV, # 1 / 1997

 

Published in December 1999/publié en
decembre 1999

 

Sommaire/Contents

 

The Santa Croce Drawings: A Re-examination

GILLIAN MACKIE

 

Images of Authority, Identity, Power: Facade Mosaic
Decoration in Rome during the Later Middle Ages

CATHERINE HARDING

 

From Woodblock to Textile: Images of Elite Culture in
the Blue-and-White Embroideries of Sichuan

CATHERINE PAGANI

 

Thinking Nation and Hybrid Belongings: The Aesthetics
of Negotiation in Recent Media Art

CHRISTINE ROSS

 

Livres/Books

 

Margot Coatts, ed., Pioneers of Modern Craft

Reviewed by Sandra Alfoldy

 

C. Jean Campbell, The Game of Courting and the Art
of the Commune of San Gimignano 1290 – 1320

Reviewed by Louise Bourdua

 

Clifford Brown and Guy Delmarcel, Tapestries for
the Courts of Federico II, Ercole, and Ferrante Gonzaga, 1522 – 63

Reviewed by Stephen J. Campbell

RACAR Vol XXIV, # 2 / 1997



Breaking the Boundaries: Intercultural Perspectives in
Medieval Art

/Entamer les frontières: perspectives interculturelles
dans l'art du Moyen-Age

 

Published in November 2000/publié en
novembre 2000

 

 

Sommaire /Contents

 

Norwegian Stave Churches and their Pagan Antecedents

MICHAEL REED

 

Food for Thought in the Souillac Pillar: Devouring
Beasts, Pain and the Subversion of Heroic Codes of Violence

CAROL KNICELY

 

Shields of Faith: Apotropaic Images of the Virgin in
Alfonso X's Cantigas de Santa Maria

DEIRDRE JACKSON

 

Mamluks and Venetians: An Intercultural Perspective on
14th Century Material Culture in the Mediterranean

CATHERINE HARDING AND NANCY MICKLEWRIGHT

 

Livres/Books

 

Calvin B. Kendall, The Allegory of the Church:
Romanesque Portals and their Verse Inscriptions

Reviewed by James Bugslag

 

Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis, Japanese Mandalas:
Representation of Sacred Geography

Reviewed by Gail F. Chin

 

Gill Perry, ed., Gender and Art 

Reviewed by Catherine
Harding

 

Amelia Jones, Body Art: Performing the Subject

 Reviewed
by Jayne Wark

RACAR Vol XXV, 1-2 1998

Published in June 2001/publié en juin 2001

 

Producing Women/Ces femme qui produisent.....

 

Guest
Editors/Sous la direction de Janice Helland, Queen's University & Catherine
MacKenzie, Concordia University

 

Sommaire/Contents

 

Editorial
Introduction/Mot des rédacteurs

 

Elitekey: The
Artistic Production of Mi’Kmaq Women                               

JOAN ACLAND

 

Troubling
Presences: Body, Sound and Space in Installation Art

of the mid -
1990s                                                                                 

DEBORAH CHERRY     

 

Daughter in
Exile: The Painting Space of Christiane Pflug

CHRISTINE
CONLEY

 

The Industry
of Motherhood: Spring Hurlbut’s “L’ascension

and Julia
Margaret Cameron’s Wings                                                      

CYNTHIA IMOGEN HAMMOND

 

Place Really
Does Matter: Marion Greenwood’s 1947 “China” Exhibition

CATHERINE
MACKENZIE         

 

How Many
Artists Are There in the Family?

The Career of
Montreal Painter Regina Seiden (1897 - 1991)         

BARBARA
MEADOWCROFT

 

Madonna/Mother/Death and Child: Laura Muntz and the Representation of
Maternity ELIZABETH MULLEY

 

The Viewer as
Producer: British and Canadian Feminists reading Prudence Heward’s “Women”

LYNN PEARCE

 

A Tale of
Three Women: The Visual Arts in Canada/A Current Accounting

JOYCE ZEMANS

 

Livres/Books

 

Ingrid
Bachmann and Ruth Scheuing, eds Material
Matters;The Art and Culture of
Contemporary Textiles
                

Reviewed by
Elaine Cheasley

 

Griselda
Pollock, Differencing the Canon:  Feminist Desire and

the Writing of Arts’ Histories      

Reviewed by Shannon Hunter Hurtado

 

Debra Pincus,  The
Tombs of the Doges of Venice          

Reviewed by John Osborne

 

Katheryn
Brush,  The Shaping of Art History. Wilhelm Vöge,
Adolph Goldschmidt, and the Study of Medieval Art                                         

Reviewed by Gwendolyn Trottein

RACAR Vol XXVII, 1-2 2000


Published in August 2003 (Publié en aout 2003)

 

 

Sommaire / Contents

 

Concerning the Origin of the Virgin of Humility Theme                               

JOSEPH POLZER

 

Le Problème de l’ornement chez Cellini : théorie, iconographie
et humanisme                    

GWENDOLYN TROTTEIN

 

“The Man with Three Feet” in Pieter Bruegel the
Elder’s Peasant Wedding

CLAUDINE MAJZELS

 

Images de Pompéi                    

BRIGITTE DESROCHERS

 

La Gloire du peintre de les errements de l’Academie. Des pistes
pour l’étude des marines de Claude-Joseph Vernet au Salon

NICOLAS GAUDREAU 

 

White Marble, Black Bodies and the Fear of the
Invisible Negro: Signifying Blackness in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Neoclassical
Sculpture CHARMAINE NELSON

 

The Commodification of William Morris: Emotive Links in a
Mass-Produced World

SANDRA ALFOLDY

 

Translating Music into Visual Form: The Influence of Music
in the Work of Bertram Brooker

GLENN WILLIAMS

 

Des Canadiennes exposent au Riverside Museum en 1947.
Ambiguïtés de la réception critique

EDITH –ANNE PAGEOT

 

Commentaire / Commentary

 

Hommage à Raymond
Klibansky / Tribute to Raymond Klibansky

Carol Doyon

 

Raymond
Klibansky and the Warburg Institute

Carol Gibson-Wood

 

Raymond Klibansky
et l’histoire de l’art du XXe siècle

Jean-Philippe Uzel

 

La Notion de Kulturwissenschaft

Raymond Klibansky

                                   

Livres / Books

 

Greg M. Thomas, Art and Ecology in
Nineteenth-Century France: The Landscapes of Théodore Rousseau -
Reviewed
by Nicole Dubreuil

 

Barbara Fischer, Foodculture: Tasting Identities
and Geographies of Art

Reviewed by Martha Langford

 

Deborah Cherry,Beyond the Frame: Feminism and
Visual Culture
 

Reviewed by Anne-Marie Link

 

Christine Stevenson, Medicine and Magnificence:
British Hospital and Asylum Architecture, 1600-1815
Reviewed by Sherry
McKay

 

Bernard Smith,Modernism’s History 

Reviewed by Ellen RAMSAY

RACAR Vol. XXIX 1-2 2004


Revue d’art
canadienne/Canadian Art Review

Published in August 2005

 

 

Sommaire/Contents

 

Riegl, Hegel, Kunstwollen,
and the Weltgeist

ALLISTER NEHER

 

Slippery Talk of Parliament’s Architecture: Canadian,
Canadian British, or Anglo-American?

CHRISTOPHER A. THOMAS

 

Exhibiting Ireland: The Donegal Industrial Fund in
London and Chicago

JANICE HELLAND

 

L’avènement de l’art naïf en Haïti:
La Portée instauratrice d’un jugement esthétique

CARLO AVIERL CÉLIUS

 

Le narrateur dans l’image. Analyse comparative d’une photographie
de Jeff Wall et d’un texte de Walter Benjamin

MARIE FRASER

 

Note/Note

 

Patronage at the Court of Burgundy around 1500: a Note
on the Death of St. Nicholas Window
in the Royal Ontario Museum

ARIANE ISLER-DE JONGH

 

Livres/Books

 

Andrew Hemingway, Artists
on the Left: American Artists and the Communist Movement

Reviewed by Pamela Allara

 

Joan B. Landes, Visualizing
the Nation: Gender, Representation, and the Revolution in Eighteenth-Century
France

Reviewed by Vivian Cameron

 

Rose Marie San Juan, Rome: a City Out of Print

Reviewed by Erin J. Campbell

 

Christopher A. Thomas, The Lincoln Memorial & American Life

Reviewed by Angela Carr

 

Kristina Huneault,  Difficult Subjects: Working Women and Visual
Culture, Britain 1880 – 1914

Reviewed by Julie F. Codell

 

Philip Jacks and William Caferro, The Spinelli of Florence: Fortunes of a Renaissance Merchant Family

Reviewed by Cathleen Hoeniger

 

J. Philip McAleer,
Rochester Cathedral, 604 – 1540: An Architectural History

Reviewed by Malcolm Thurlby

 

Carol Gibson-Wood, Jonathan
Richardson: Art Theorist of the English Enlightenment

Reviewed by Catherine Tite

 

Lawrence Gowing,  Vermeer  

Reviewed by Angela Vanhaelen

 

Kathy E. Zimon, Alberta
Society of Artists, the first Seventy Years

Reviewed by Anne Whitelaw

RACAR Vol. XXVII/2001-2003


Revue d’art canadienne/Canadian Art Review

Art History Inside and Outside the University/L’histoire de l’art à l’université et hors de l’université

 

Guest Editor/Sous la direction de Adele Ernstrom, Emerita, Bishop’s University

 

Published
June 2004

 

 

 

Sommaire/Contents

 

Editorial
Introduction: Art History Inside and Outside the University

ADELE ERNSTROM

 

Geroge
Turnbull and Art History at Scottish Universities in the Eighteenth Century

CAROL
GIBSON-WOOD

 

Art, History
and Discipline in the Eighteenth-Century German University

ANN-MARIE LINK

 

Entering Art
History in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Félicie d’Ayzac, Anna Jameson and the
Legacy of Mme de Staël

ADELE ERNSTROM

 

L’Institutionnalisation
de l’histoire de l’art en France au XIX siècle

LYNE THERRIEN

 

The Academy,
the Market and the Art Museums in the Repositioning of Australian Aboriginal
Art

DAVID DOLAN

 

Commentaire/Commentary

New Art
Histories: Severing the Incestuous Relation Betweeen the Discipline and the
Museum?

NICOLE
DUBREUIL

 

Livres/Books

Ellen Easton
McLeod, In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild

Reviewed by
Sandra Alfoldy

 

Dennis Reid
and Matthew Teitelbaum, eds., Greg Curnoe: Life and Stuff

Reviewed by
Katie Cholette

 

Martha
Langford, Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic
Albums

Reviewed by
Susan Close

 

Michael Fried,
Menzel’s Realism: Art and Ebodiment in Nineteenth-Century Berlin

Reviewed by
Mitchell Frank

 

Serge
Trottein, ed., L’estétique naît-elle au XVIIIe siècle?

Reviewed by
Nicolas Gaudreau

 

Jeffry Abt,  A Museum on the Verge: A Socioeconomic History
of the Detroit Institute of Arts 1882 – 2000  

Reviewed by
Reesa Greenberg

 

Philip Sohm  Style in the Art Theory of Early Modern Italy

 Reviewed by Sharon Gregory

 

Eckhart
Marchand and Alison Wright, eds., With and Without the Medici: Studies in
Tuscan Art and Patronage 1434 – 1530

 Reviewed by Corinne Mandel

 

Janice
Helland, Professional Women Painters in the Nineteenth-Century Scotland:
Commitment, Friendship, Pleasure

 Reviewed by Juliette Peers

 

Robert J.
Belton, Signs of Resistance: Approaches to Canadian Visual Culture

Reviewed by
Ron Shuebrook

 

Dominic
Marner, St. Cuthbert: His Life and Cult in Medieval Durham

 Reviewed by Malcolm Thurlby

RACAR Vol. XXX 1-2 2005

Revue d’art
canadienne/Canadian Art Review

The Portrait Issue/La
question du portrait

Published in July 2006

 

 

Sommaire/Contents

 

Editors’ Introduction/Mot des rédacteurs

 

A New Portrait Gallery for Canada: Stacking or
Unpacking a National Narrative

LILLY KOLTUN

 

Sur/Rendering Her Image: The Unknowable Harriet Tubman

CHANTAL N. GIBSON and MONIQUE SILVERMAN

 

Portrait of a Globalized Canadian: Ken Lum’s There Is No Place Like Home

CYNTHIA FOO

 

Catherine de Médicis (1519-1589) et le portrait: esquisse
d’une collection royale au féminin

CHANTAL TURBIDE

 

L’Intéret et les limites de la recherche sur l’art de
la miniature au Canada. La collection de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada

ANNE-ELISABETH VALLÉE

 

(Re)viewing Whistler and Sargent: portraiture at the fin-de-siècle

MEAGHAN CLARKE

 

Miniature objects of Cultural Covenant: Portraits and
First Nations Sitters in British North America

KRISTINA HUNEAULT

 

Leaders, Legends and Felons: negotiating portraiture,
from veneration to vandalism

ANGELA CARR

 

Collaboration spéciale/Keynote Paper

 

What Lies Beyond the Slide Library?  Facing the Digital Future of Art History

SARAH PARSONS

 

Livres/Books

 

Lori Pauli, Manufactured
Landscapes: The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky,
with essays by Mark
Haworth-Booth and Kenneth Baker and an interview by Michael Torosian

Reviewed by SARAH BASSNETT

 

Sylvia Lavin, Form
Follows Libido: Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture

Reviewed by KEITH BRESNAHAN

 

Heather Dawkins, The
Nude in French Art and Culture, 1870-1910

Reviewed by JOHN POTVIN

 

Steven Harris, Surrealist
Art and Thought in the 1930s: Art, Politics, and the Psyche;
and Johanna
Malt, Obscure Objects of Desire:
Surrealism, Fetishism, and Politics

Reviewed by LINDA STEER

 

Michael W. Cole, Cellini
and the Principles of Sculpture;
Margaret A. Gallucci, Benvenuto Cellini, Sexuality, Masculinity and Artistic Identiry in
Renaissance Italy;
 and Alessandro
Nova and Anna Schreurs, eds, Benvenuto
Cellini. Kunst and Kunsttheorie im 16 Jahrhundert

Reviewed by GWENDOLYN TROTTEIN

 

Tanya Mars and Johanna Householder, eds. Caught in the Act: an anthology of
performance art by Canadian women.

Reviewed by JESSICA WYMAN

RACAR Vol. XXXI 1-2 2006

Revue d’art
canadienne/Canadian Art Review

Papers from
the 31st International Congress of the Comité international
d’histoire de l’art (CIHA) August 23 – 27 2004 Montréal / Communications
présentées au XXXI ième Congrès international du Comité international
d’histoire de l’art (CIHA) à Montréal, du 23 – 27 août 2004

 

Published in April 2007

 

 

Sommaire/Contents

 

Editors’ Introduction/Mot des rédacteurs

 

Béton et utopie avant 1914: architecture et
<<moule social>>                               

LAURENT BARIDON

 

Law or Independence
– What Does the Frame Stand For ?

VERA BEYER

 

Archéologie de l’oeuvre Net art: une esthétique du
fragment

JEAN-PAUL FOURMENTRAUX

 

From Flatness to Space and Back Again: Concepts of
Representation in the Work of Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke

JULIE GELSHORN

 

The Virtual Memorial: Temporality, Interactivity and
the Internet

ANNIE GÉRIN

 

Photographie et cinéma chez Henri Focillon: illustrer,
sérier, diffuser et enseigner.  Le
renouvellement d’une discipline

COLIN LEMOINE

 

Modernist Ultimate Thule

RHODRI WINDSOR
LISCOMBE

 

Le corps sans limites ou l’acéphalité; le personnage
d’Acéphale, secret et équivoque, dans les oeuvres des artistes autour du
Collège de Sociologie

CAMILLE MORANDO    

 

Mirror Reflections: Robert Smithson’s Dialectical
Concept of Space

JOHANNES STŰCKELBERGER

 

Livres/Books

 

Indri Kais McEwen, Vitruvius:
Writing the Body of Architecture

Reviewed by BARBARA ARCISZEWSKA

 

Louis Kaplan, American
Exposures;
and Martha Langford, ed., Image
and Imagination

Reviewed by MATTHEW BROWER

 

Alice Goldfarb Marquis, Art Czar, The Rise and Fall of Clement Greenberg

Reviewed by KEN CARPENTER

 

Stephen J. Campbell and Stephen J. Milner, eds, Artistic Exchange and Cultural Translation
in the Italian Renaissance City

Reviewed by CATHERINE HARDING

 

Kristen Frederickson and Sarah E. Webb, eds,  Singular Women: Writing the Artist

Reviewed by JANICE HELLAND

 

Glenn Peers, Sacred
Shock, Framing Visual Experience in Byzantium

Reviewed by LESLEY JESSOP

 

Virginia Nixon, Mary’s
Mother: St Anne in Late Medieval Europe

Reviewed by CHRISTINE KRALIK

 

Madeleine Landry et Robert Derome, L’art sacré en Amérique française.  Le trésor de la Côte-de-Beaupré

Reviewed by JEAN TRUDEL

RACAR Vol. XXXII 1-2 2007

Revue d’art
canadienne/Canadian Art Review


Published in December
2007

 

Sommaire/Contents

 

A “Lost” Ivory Casket in the Gort Collection at the Winnipeg Art Gallery

JAMES BUGSLAG

 

Who Was that Masked Man ?  An Alexandrian Bronze

ALAN HUGHES

 

Art and the Gregorian Reform: Saints Peter and Clement
in the Church of San
Marco
at Venice

LESLEY JESSOP

 

Grace Pailthorpe et Reuben Mednikoff à Vancouver.  La transmission du surréalisme au Canada anglais,
1942-1946

YVES M. LAROCQUE

 

Theodulf of Orléans and the Ark of the Covenant:  A New Allegorical Interpretation at
Germigny-des-Près

GILLIAN MACKIE

 

Jacques Villon and the Tovell Family:  A Canadian Connection with Modernism

MICHAEL PARKE-TAYLOR

 

Body Politics and the Art of Norval Morrsseau

CARMEN ROBERTSON

 

The Wound on Christ’s Back in New
Spain

ALENA ROBIN

 

Un Canadian
errant:
Charles Smeaton and the earliest photographs of the
Roman Catacombs

ANDREA TERRY AND JOHN OSBORNE

 

Livres/Books

 

Ihor Holubizky, Walter Klepac and Christopher Cuts, Kazuo Nakamura: The Method of Nature/La
Méthode de la nature; 
Bryce Kanbara,
Tashme2: Early Work of Kazuo
Nakamura;
 and Richard William Hill,  Kazuo
Nakamura: A Human Measure

Reviewed by BRIAN
GRISON AND BRETT STEVENS

 

Malcolm Thurlby, Romanesque
Architecture and Sculpture in Wales

Reviewed by STUART HARRISON

 

Jayne Wark, Radical
Gestures: Feminism and Performance Art in North America

Reviewed by LAURA LEVIN

 

Laurier Lacroix, Suzor-Coté,
lumièreet matière

Reviewed by DIDIER
PRIOUL