english / french

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