 | Voices of Fire: Art, Rage, Power, and the State Subjects: Newman Barnett 1905-1970. Voice of Fire; National Gallery of Canada -- Appropriations and expenditures; Painting American -- Political aspects -- Canada; Painting Abstract -- Political aspects -- Canada; Art and state -- Canada -- Case studies; Painti; This anthology can be seen as a case-study, providing both a historical account of the outcome of the National Gallery's purchase of the painting and an understanding of why the gallery's actions provoked such strong opinions and feelings. Barber Bruce : Bruce Barber is an associate professor at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. He is an artist and cultural historian, and author of Reading Rooms and Modern Art, Cartoons, Comics and Class Conflict: Cultural Hegemony and the Contest of Power.Guilbaut Serge : Serge Guilbaut is a professor in the Department of Fine arts at the University of British Columbia. He is editor of Modernism and Modernity and Reconstructing Modernism, and is the author of How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art and Voir, Ne pas voir, Faut voir.O'Brian John : John O'Brian teraches Art History at the University of British Columbia. He is author of David Milne and the Modern Tradition of Painting: The Flat Side of the Landscape and Degas to Matisse: The Maurice Wetheim Collection, and editor of Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism. |
