Ord looks at the gallery's historical and intellectual context - from 1910 when Eric Brown became the gallery's founding director, through Jean Sutherland Boggs, to Shirley Thomson - shedding light on its acquisitions, government policy towards the arts, and the public's deep-rooted suspicion of avant-garde art. In showing how Canadian art came to be housed in a building whose architectural and ideological sources include Gothic cathedrals, Islamic mosques, Egyptian temples, St Peter's Basilica, and the squared-stone facades of the Holy City of Jerusalem, The National Gallery of Canada insightfully explores the relationship of Canada's art and its National Gallery to the project of the Canadian nation state.

The National Gallery of Canada: Ideas, Art, Architecture

Arts & Photography

Ord, Douglas

History & Criticism

McGill-Queen's University Press

<p>Ostensibly the pastoral story of a man with a dream of living in the country, innocently, perfectly, and purely— Tommy's Farm takes the reader on a gentle, funny and deeply ironic journey into the heart of the meaning of desire. This is a book that pulls you in and along, as misunderstanding and misadventure slow Tommy and his battered pick-up truck while he drives our hero north, away from his city bookstore and the comfortable world he has known, into that dangerous zone of being given exactly what you wished for. This is a hilarious, serious book that is destined to become a cult classic.</p>

Tommy's farm: A novel

Mercury Press

<i>A Schizo-Philosopher's Colouring Book</i> is a playful experiment in what the philosopher Gilles Deleuze might call 'crowned anarchy.' The crown of authority is worn by the format 'colouring book,' in a style that repeats with difference. Anarchy enters via a swarm of figures from philosophical, literary, theological, and art history, each with a quotation. These distribute themselves over fifty-two drawings, producing little machines that are desirous of colour and driven by paradox, whose "organization of surface ... assures the resonance between two series."

A Schizo-Philosopher's Colouring Book (16) (Colouring Books)

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

MiroLand

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