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"Founded by Vladimir Lenin in 1919 to instigate a world revolution, the Comintern advanced not just the proletarian struggle but also a wide variety of radical causes, including those against imperialism and racism in settings as varied as Ireland, India, the United States, and China. Notoriously, and from the organization's outset, these causes grew ever more subservient to Soviet state interest and Stalinist centralization. Comintern Aesthetics shows how the cultural and political networks emerging from the Comintern have continued, even after its demise in 1943. Tracking these networks through a multiplicity of artistic forms geared towards advancing a common, liberated humanity, this volume captures the failure of a Soviet-centered world revolution, but also its enduring allure in the present."-- Provided by publisher.

In 1950, 18 American abstract painters signed an open letter addressed to the president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to express their intense disapproval of the museum's contemporaneous exhibit American Painting Today: 1950. The artists were William Baziotes, James Brooks, Fritz Bultman, Jimmy Ernst, Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Weldon Kees, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Richard Pousette-Dart, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Theodoros Stamos, Hedda Sterne, Clyfford Still and Bradley Walker Tomlin. This artistic coalition, which included many members of the New York School and is now considered a watershed movement in mid-20th-century American art history, challenged the museum's policies for their narrow understanding of what made certain art worth exhibiting. Though they resisted being labeled as a collective, media coverage of the museum boycott, which included a now-famous group portrait in Life magazine taken by photographer Nina Leen, ultimately contributed to the success of the 18 "Irascibles" in what became known as the abstract expressionist movement. This publication collects 18 paintings by the artists, images from Leen's photoshoot and extensive documentation of the letter-writing process with relevant catalogs and magazines. Featuring more than 230 illustrations alongside original essays by several art historians and curators that examine the complex history of the New York School, this volume serves as a time capsule of the exciting period of early abstract expressionism in the United States. Exhibition: Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain (06.03.-07.06.2020)

• A selection of works by pioneering female abstract expressionist artists and their predecessors (lots 1-23)

"Dans l'histoire de l'Occident, la guerre froide marque une nouvelle ère. Avènement de la télévision, triomphe de l'American Way of Life, soulèvments de la jeunesse et des minorités... Jamais les pratiques culturelles n'avaient connu un tel bouleversement. Aiguillonés par les modèles socialistes et par la peur nucléaire, les Etats-Unis et l'Europe de l'Ouest composent un monde nouveau où se redéfinissent les relations entre culture, médias et pouvoirs économiques et politiques, et où éclatent les frontières entre les arts, les genres et les acteurs. Un panorama renouvelé et synthétique." [page 4 of cover]

• Cover; The Grenfell Medical Mission and American Support in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1890s-1940s; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Editors' Introduction: "Untainted by American Ways"? Newfoundland, the United States, and the Grenfell Mission; Part I: Shaping the Grenfell Mission; 1 Wilfred Grenfell and Newfoundland; 2 "We Are Anglo-Saxons": Grenfell, Race, and Mission Movements; 3 The Gospel of Right Living: Wilfred Grenfell's Association with John Harvey Kellogg of Battle Creek

• 4 To Prevent "the Otherwise Inevitable Catastrophe": American Philanthropy and the Creation of the International Grenfell Association, 1905-1914Part II: The Grenfell Enterprise in Motion; 5 Sport in a Northern Borderland: A History of Athletics and Play in the Grenfell Mission, 1900-1949; 6 "Indiscriminate Bounty Makes for Pauperism": Producing Respectability through Clothing at the Grenfell Mission, 1890s-1920s; 7 Elizabeth Page and the White Bay Unit; 8 Education at the Grenfell Mission in the 1920s

• 9 Behind the Scenes at the Grenfell Mission: Edgar "Ted" McNeill and Counter-Biography as Material Agency10 American Aid, the International Grenfell Association, and Health Care in Newfoundland, 1920s-1930s; Editors' Conclusion: An American Operation; Notes; Bibliography; Contributors; Index

Dr Wilfred Grenfell, physician and folk hero, recruited thousands of volunteer workers for his Newfoundland and Labrador seamen's mission, many of them Americans from Ivy League institutions. As the medical mission grew to become the International Grenfell Association, establishing institutions along the Labrador and northern Newfoundland coasts, Americans also became resident staff leaders in the region, and Grenfell himself married an American, Anne MacClanahan, who led mission activities. The Grenfell Medical Mission and American Support in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1890s-1940s reveals the nature and extent of support from Americans throughout the distributed privately run social enterprise until the 1940s, before the region joined Canada. Essays explore the organization's claims to share an Anglo-Saxon heritage with the United States, American reaction to its financial scandal and creation of an incorporated association, its promotion of sport and masculinity, and the development of education and schools in the region and the mission. The organization's strong ties to the United States are exemplified by Grenfell's friendship with American physician John Harvey Kellogg; the donation of clothing from American donors; the work of one American woman on her affiliated mission unit; the impact of American philanthropy and training on the construction of the mission's main hospital in St Anthony; and the superior American-accredited health care facilities and their clinical achievements. From its corporate base in New York City, the International Grenfell Association blended contemporary social movements and adopted American notions of philanthropy. The Grenfell Medical Mission and American Support in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1890s-1940s offers the first thorough history of an iconic health and social organization in Atlantic Canada.
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• Essay
• Notes
• Chronology
• Acknowledgements
• Plates

"An essay on the career and work of Canadian sculptor John Greer (b.1944). Includes colour reproductions of seven of his works."-- Provided by publisher

• Keith Haring & Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines / Dieter Buchhart
• Interview: Jenny Holzer / Dieter Buchhart
• Interview: George Condo / Dieter Buchhart & Anna Karina Hofbauer
• Interview: Diego Cortez / Dieter Buchhart
• Interview: Patti Astor / Dieter Buchhart
• In Others' Words: An Oral History of Keith Haring & Jean Michel Basquiat / Linda Yablonsky
• The Art of Friendship / Larry Warsh
• Kool & Blak / Myles Russell-Cook
• Radiant Desire: Contemplating a Legacy of Cross-racial Contact / Ricardo Montez
• The Radiant Child / Rene Ricard
• Joint Timeline / Dieter Buchhart, Anna Karina Hofbauer & Anke Wiedmann
• Artist Chronologies
• List of Works

"Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat are considered icons of twentieth-century art. Both are known for their idiosyncratic imagery, radical viewpoints and complex socio-political commentary, and both employed signs, symbols and words to explore ideas around race, sexuality, spirituality and other aspects of contemporary life. Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines draws out the many intersections between the artists' lives, practices and ideas. It includes more than 200 images, including works created in public spaces, paintings, sculptures, objects, works on paper and photographs, which are accompanied by new essays and interviews. Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines is a record of and a tribute to the work of two boundary-pushing, highly influential artists"--Publisher website

Historienne et ecrivaine canadienne de reputation internationale, Margaret MacMmillan aborde la Premiere Guerre mondiale et ses repercussions paradoxales sur le Canada dans son discours prononce en 2018 lors de la remise de la medaille Symons et intitule Le lionceau. Avec son style caracteristique et son talent inne de narratrice, Margaret MacMillan a revele le paradoxe saisissant de l'experience canadienne durant la Premiere Guerre mondiale. En effet, si la Grande Guerre, comme on l'appelait a l'epoque, a sensibilise le Canada a l'idee de nation et a confere a bon nombre de Canadiens un sentiment accru d'identite, elle a aussi symbolise une epoque ou la Confederation canadienne fut fortement ebranlee et faillit meme se desagreger. De plus, les risques de fracture resultant de la Grande Guerre perdurerent durant tout le XXe siecle. Et aujourd'hui encore, ses effets continuent de se faire sentir dans la vie politique nationale canadienne, particulierement dans les relations entre le Quebec et le reste du pays. Pourtant, le Canada a survecu et continue de survivre. Selon Margaret MacMillan, c'est d'ailleurs la plus grande force de la Confederation canadienne. Dans son ouvrage intitule Le lionceau, elle suggere que l'endurance et la resilience du Canada devraient etre imperativement reconnues a leur juste valeur. Dans un monde ou les frontieres politiques sont souvent aussi artificielles que celles du Canada, la capacite a survivre et a prosperer de notre " pays improbable " est un brillant exemple d'espoir pour un monde plus vaste et plus divers. La medaille Symons est une des recompenses honorifiques les plus prestigieuses du Canada. Chaque annee, elle est remise par le Centre des arts de la Confederation a une personne distinguee en reconnaissance de sa contribution exceptionnelle a la vie canadienne. Edition bilingue - In The Lion's Cub, her 2018 Symons Medal address, eminent Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan examines the impact of the First War World on Canadian Confederation. With her characteristic flair and gift for telling detail, Margaret MacMillan shows the paradox of Canada's experience in the First World War. On the one hand, the Great War, as it was originally known, brought Canada closer to nationhood and gave many Canadians a greater sense of identity. On the other hand, the Great War also marked a time when Confederation was shaken and very nearly came apart. Its divisive impact continued to be felt throughout the twentieth century. And can still be felt today, in Canada's national political life, and in the relationship between Quebec and the rest of the country. Yet Canada survived, and continues to survive. And Margaret MacMillan concludes that this is the great strength of Confederation. The Lion's Cub suggests Canada's endurance should be recognized for the achievement it is. In a world where political boundaries are often as artificial as Canada's, the ability of our "improbable country" to survive and prosper may be an example of hope for a wider world. The Symons Medal is one of Canada's most prestigious honours. It is presented annually by the Confederation Centre of the Arts to honour persons who have made an exceptional contribution to Canadian life. Bilingual Edition.
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• Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Illustrations; 1 The Beginnings of the Affair; 2 Asian Apprenticeship; 3 Leadership Manoeuvres; 4 Chanak and All That; 5 Canada at the League of Nations; 6 The Advent of the Dictators: Mussolini; 7 The Advent of the Dictators: Hitler; 8 King and Abyssinia: The Muddle; 9 King and Abyssinia: The Domestic Scene; 10 King and Abyssinia: The End; 11 Appeasement; 12 A Berliner in Berlin; 13 Appalling Mischief; 14 The End of the Affair; 15 A Good Bit of Wool; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Until the outbreak of hostilities in 1939, Mackenzie King prided himself on never publicly saying anything derogatory about Hitler or Mussolini, unequivocally supporting the appeasement policies of British prime minister Neville Chamberlain and regarding Hitler as a benign fellow mystic. In Mackenzie King in the Age of the Dictators Roy MacLaren leads readers through the political labyrinth that led to Canada's involvement in the Second World War and its awakening as a forceful nation on the world stage. Prime Minister King's fascination with foreign affairs extended from helping President Theodore Roosevelt exclude "little yellow men" from North America in 1908 to his conviction that appeasement of Hitler and Mussolini should be the cornerstone of Canada's foreign and imperial policies in the 1930s. If war could be avoided, King thought, national unity could be preserved. MacLaren draws extensively from King's diaries and letters and contemporary sources from Britain, the United States, and Canada to describe how King strove to reconcile French Canadian isolationism with English Canadians' commitment to the British Commonwealth. King, MacLaren explains, was convinced by the controversies of the First World War that another such conflagration would be disruptive to Canada. When King finally had to recognize that the Liberals' electoral fortunes depended on English Canada having greater voting power than French Canada, he did not reflect on whether a higher morality and intellectual integrity should transcend his anxieties about national unity. A focused view of an important period in Canadian history, replete with insightful stories, vignettes, and anecdotes, Mackenzie King in the Age of the Dictators shows Canada flexing its foreign policy under King's cautious eye and ultimately ineffective guiding hand.
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• Polish World War II veterans
• Polish war veterans' stories
• From victory to sorrow.

"In the aftermath of World War II, more than 4,500 Polish veterans, displaced by the war events and the emerging Soviet-oriented Polish government, were resettled in Canada as farm workers; 750 of these men were accepted by the province of Alberta. Polish War Veterans in Alberta examines how these former soldiers experienced their new country and its sometimes-harsh postwar realities. This compelling work of social history is brought to life through the words and stories of four veterans, whose remembrances provide an intimate firsthand look at a moment of Canada's past that is at risk of being forgotten."-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction : a theory of the avant-garde today
• The magazine as laboratory in New York proto-Dada communities
• The page as map in proto-conceptual magazines
• Proto-language and new narrative magazines as theoretical implements
• Feminist avant-garde magazines and hospitality after 1980
• Communities of print in the digital age
• Epilogue : avant-garde fever

What would it mean to be avant-garde today? Arguing against the notion that the avant-garde is dead or confined to historically "failed" movements, this book offers a more dynamic and inclusive theory of avant-gardes that accounts for how they work in our present. Innovative in approach, Provisional Avant-Gardes focuses on the medium of the little magazine-from early Dada experiments to feminist, queer, and digital publishing networks-to understand avant-gardes as provisional and heterogeneous communities. Paying particular attention to neglected women writers, artists, and editors alongside more canonical figures, it shows how the study of little magazines can change our views of literary and art history while shedding new light on individual careers. By focusing on the avant-garde's publishing history and group dynamics, Sophie Seita also demonstrates a new methodology for writing about avant-garde practice across time, one that is applicable to other artistic and non-artistic communities and that speaks to contemporary practitioners as much as scholars. In the process, she addresses fundamental questions about the intersections of aesthetic form and politics and about what we consider to be literature and art.
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• Dream Plan for a Troubled World
• Convincing Canada, Building a Team
• The Journey Out
• Raising Camp Hilton
• The Study Begins
• Revolution, Politics, and Disease
• Plants, Animals, Mores, and Microbes
• Return of HMCS Cape Scott
• Personal and Popular Results
• The Scientific Papers Begin
• Virology, Psychology, and Return Visits
• Nógrády's Legacy and a Wonder Drug
• Forgetting METEI and the IBP
• METEI.

In 1964-65, an international team of thirty-eight scientists and assistants, led by Montreal physician Stanley Skoryna, sailed to the mysterious Rapa Nui (Easter Island) to conduct an unprecedented survey of its biosphere. Born of Cold War concerns about pollution, overpopulation, and conflict, and initially conceived as the first of two trips, the project was designed to document the island's status before a proposed airport would link the one thousand people living in humanity's remotest community to the rest of the world - its germs, genes, culture, and economy. Based on archival papers, diaries, photographs, and interviews with nearly twenty members of the original team, Stanley's Dream sets the expedition in its global context within the early days of ecological research and the understudied International Biological Program. Jacalyn Duffin traces the origins, the voyage, the often-complicated life within the constructed camp, the scientific preoccupations, the role of women, the resultant reports, films, and publications, and the previously unrecognized accomplishments of the project, including a goodwill tour of South America, the delivery of vaccines, and the discovery of a wonder drug. For Rapa Nui, the expedition coincided with its rebellion against the colonizing Chilean military, resulting in its first democratic election. For Canada, it reflected national optimism as the country prepared for its centennial and adopted its own flag. Ending with Duffin's own journey to the island to uncover the legacy of the study and the impact of the airport, and to elicit local memories, Stanley's Dream is an entertaining and poignant account of a long-forgotten but important Canadian-led international expedition.
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• Ne prenez pas ce simple grain de riz à la légère = Be careful not to think slightingly of this one grain of rice / Christine Macel
• Stream : Les possibles du noir et blanc = Stream : The possibilities of black and white / Valérie Douniaux
• Un index des Stream = An index of Streams
• Matsutani : La magie des variations = Matsutani : The magic of variations / Yves Peyré
• Écoulement, gonflement, remplissage : "Sans cela, ce ne serait pas mon oeuvre" = Pouring, inflating, filling in : "Without these the work is not mine" / Toshio Yamanashi

Accompanying a major survey of Takesada Matsutani's work at the Centre Pompidou in Paris from 26 June to 23 September 2019, this catalog fully illustrates the exhibition's artworks ranging from 1958 to 2019, and features multiple texts. Beginning with an introduction from Centre Pompidou Director Bernard Blistène and President Serge Lasvignes, the book continues with an essay by the museum's Chief Curator Christine Macel. Valérie Douniaux, who has been working with the artist's archives since 2014, overviews the "Stream" works, a series of activated performance pieces begun in 1980. Writer Yves Peyré offers a poetic view of the artist's practice in relation to Japanese traditions. Finally, Toshio Yamanashi, Director of the Osaka National Museum of Art, contributes an essay focusing on the main gestures in Matsutani's work. Exhibition: Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (26.06. - 23.09.2019)

• Introduction: museums, protest, and cities
• Of directors, museums, and national identity
• Protest at the threshold: a short history of contentious politics at Canadian museums, 1900-96
• ; the UBC Museum of Anthropology as model
• Crossing the threshold: counter-histories, museum exteriors, interiors, and archives
• "She walked in and removed her work from the wall": artists agains Reed Paper at the Art Gallery of Ontario, 1976
• Reactionary protest: the Warrior Nation and the Canadian War Museum
• The postponement of The Lands Within Me: expressions by Canadian artists of Arab origin, 2001
• "It takes a lot of wrongs to make a museum of rights": Indigenous resistance and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
• Wendy Coburn: anatomy of a protest
• When the land comes first: oil, museums and (missing) protest
• Reversing the flow: yes men tackle the Canadian Government
• "Intellectual properties": real estate, Occupy Vancouver, and the Vancouver Art Gallery
• Stan Douglas and the Woodward's redevelopment.

Museums are frequently sites of struggle and negotiation. They are key cultural institutions that occupy an oftentimes uncomfortable place at the crossroads of the arts, culture, various levels of government, corporate ventures, and the public. Because of this, museums are targeted by political action but can also provide support for contentious politics. Though protests at museums are understudied, they are far from anomalous. Tear Gas Epiphanies traces the as-yet-untold story of political action at museums in Canada from the early twentieth century to the present. The book looks at how museums do or do not archive protest ephemera, examining a range of responses to actions taking place at their thresholds, from active encouragement to belligerent dismissal. Drawing together extensive primary-source research and analysis, Robertson questions widespread perceptions of museums, strongly arguing for a reconsideration of their role in contemporary society that takes into account political conflict and protest as key ingredients in museum life. The sheer number of protest actions Robertson uncovers is compelling. Ambitious and wide-ranging, Tear Gas Epiphanies provides a thorough and conscientious survey of key points of intersection between museums and protest - a valuable resource for university students and scholars, as well as arts professionals working at and with museums.
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• Introduction: museums, protest, and cities
• Of directors, museums, and national identity
• Protest at the threshold: a short history of contentious politics at Canadian museums, 1900-96
• ; the UBC Museum of Anthropology as model
• Crossing the threshold: counter-histories, museum exteriors, interiors, and archives
• "She walked in and removed her work from the wall": artists agains Reed Paper at the Art Gallery of Ontario, 1976
• Reactionary protest: the Warrior Nation and the Canadian War Museum
• The postponement of The Lands Within Me: expressions by Canadian artists of Arab origin, 2001
• "It takes a lot of wrongs to make a museum of rights": Indigenous resistance and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
• Wendy Coburn: anatomy of a protest
• When the land comes first: oil, museums and (missing) protest
• Reversing the flow: yes men tackle the Canadian Government
• "Intellectual properties": real estate, Occupy Vancouver, and the Vancouver Art Gallery
• Stan Douglas and the Woodward's redevelopment.

Museums are frequently sites of struggle and negotiation. They are key cultural institutions that occupy an oftentimes uncomfortable place at the crossroads of the arts, culture, various levels of government, corporate ventures, and the public. Because of this, museums are targeted by political action but can also provide support for contentious politics. Though protests at museums are understudied, they are far from anomalous. Tear Gas Epiphanies traces the as-yet-untold story of political action at museums in Canada from the early twentieth century to the present. The book looks at how museums do or do not archive protest ephemera, examining a range of responses to actions taking place at their thresholds, from active encouragement to belligerent dismissal. Drawing together extensive primary-source research and analysis, Robertson questions widespread perceptions of museums, strongly arguing for a reconsideration of their role in contemporary society that takes into account political conflict and protest as key ingredients in museum life. The sheer number of protest actions Robertson uncovers is compelling. Ambitious and wide-ranging, Tear Gas Epiphanies provides a thorough and conscientious survey of key points of intersection between museums and protest - a valuable resource for university students and scholars, as well as arts professionals working at and with museums.
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