Issues in Contemporary Canadian Art

Three credits · Undergraduate

The course will begin with a look at events in Quebec just after WWII – Les automatistes and the Refus global . We will then examine the gradual development of artmaking in Canada up to the present. This will include the regional versus the national; Canada in the international arena; innovations in photographic practice; contemporary Indigenous and Inuit work; and the infrastructure which supports and defines the visual arts in Canada. Three credits.