{"product_id":"9781487555351-cause-of-art","title":"The Cause of Art","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eProfessionalizing the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador\u003cbr\u003eThe Cause of Art reveals how curators and visual artists fought for control of a provincial art gallery during a cultural revival\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1949, Newfoundland and Labrador had a widely celebrated oral culture but little visual art. After entering the Canadian federation, recreational painters worked to create a venue for the display of art. \u003cem\u003eThe Cause of Art\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of the advocates, curators, and professional artists who laid the foundation for an artistic community in the province.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Memorial University Art Gallery was the site of a struggle between recreational painters who aspired to express their creative impulse and develop a Newfoundland art, and curators who wanted artists to participate in the Canadian art market and international artistic movements. The book recounts the history of passionate and strong-willed curators and cultural administrators who fought for control of the gallery. It reveals how they appealed to competing conceptions of professionalization, as well as diverse political and aesthetic preferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBased on extensive archival research in previously unexamined collections, and oral interviews with key informants, this book examines a cultural institution that is widely remembered as the centre of the cultural renaissance in late twentieth-century Newfoundland and Labrador. As a result, \u003cem\u003eThe Cause of Art\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates the relationship between the state and the university during a key period in the modernization of the province.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41720281202785,"sku":"9781487555351","price":26.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_35389221_d1a75919-737d-4951-b682-b1c545b03099.jpg?v=1752772804","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781487555351-cause-of-art","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}