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Is there such a thing as British Columbia culture, and if so, is there anything special about it? This is the broad question Dr. Maria Tippett answers in this work with an assured “yes!" To prove her point she looks at the careers of eight ground-breaking cultural producers in the fields of painting, aboriginal art, architecture, writing, theatre and music. The eight creative figures profiled in Made in British Columbia are not just distinguished artists who made an enduring mark on Canadian culture during the twentieth century. They are unique artists whose work is intimately interwoven with British Columbia's identity. Emily Carr portrayed BC's coastal landscape in a manner as unique as her lifestyle. Bill Reid's carvings, jewellery and sculpture stand as a contemporary interpretation of his reclaimed Haida heritage. The name Francis Rattenbury is less known than The Empress Hotel in Victoria, one of many prominent BC buildings he designed, while Arthur Erickson's modern architectural contributions are recognized worldwide. Martin Allerdale Grainger's experience in the BC woods in the early days of hand-logging inspired him to write one of the undisputed classics of BC fiction, Woodsmen of the West. Jean Coulthard struggled for respect as a female composer during the 1920s and 1930s in British Columbia but eventually proved her extraordinary musical talents internationally. George Woodcock left Britain in 1949 to forge his career as an influential author, editor, mentor and tireless promoter of literary scholarship in the province, while playwright George Ryga, the son of Ukrainian immigrants, exposed the anguish and reality of life for Native women in our cities with his 1967 play, The Ecstasy of Rita Joe. Featuring images of the artists and their works, Made in British Columbia presents a history of the treasures found in our galleries, concert halls, theatres, museums, libraries and streetscapes, and explores the legacy of a cultural tradition as unique as the place that nurtured it.

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The late nineteenth century saw a re-examination of artistic creativity in response to questions surrounding the relation between human beings and automata. These questions arose from findings in the 'new psychology', physiological research that diminished the primacy of mind and viewed human action as neurological and systemic. Concentrating on British and continental culture from 1870 to 1911, this unique study explores ways in which the idea of automatism helped shape ballet, art photography, literature, and professional writing. Drawing on documents including novels and travel essays, Linda M. Austin finds a link between efforts to establish standards of artistic practice and challenges to the idea of human exceptionalism. Austin presents each artistic discipline as an example of the same process: creation that should be intended, but involving actions that evade mental control. This study considers how late nineteenth-century literature and arts tackled the scientific question, 'Are we automata?'

Arts, British --- Automatism (Art movement) --- Arts, European --- Automatic art (Art movement) --- Arts, Canadian --- British arts --- Caribbean Artists Movement (Group of artists)

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The self and the other in the works of Canadian contemporary artists.

Arts, Canadian. --- Culture in art. --- Identity (Psychology) in art. --- National characteristics, Canadian, in art. --- National characteristics, Canadian, in art --- Arts, Canadian --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Canada --- Canadian arts --- Automatistes (Group of artists) --- Canadian literature --- gender --- Canadian identity --- multiculturalism --- identity formation --- nationhood

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Les trois rubriques introduites dans ce recueil tentent de refléter les divers champs d'investigation qui s'entrelacent. Sans doute l'interaction entre "les mots et la peinture" (il y a bien discours sur le tableau et/ou tableau dans le discours) donne lieu à un ensemble de communications très homogène tout en faisant appel à un corpus d'œuvres très large. La section "l'image-récit" touche, en fait, à plusieurs types de discours : le discours photographique y est certainement privilégié, puis apparaissent le discours filmique et enfin le discours figuratif de la bande dessinée. Il a paru important de regrouper dans la dernière partie ce que nous avons appelé "l'image-métaphore". Peinture et écriture, image et parole (que la peinture soit enrichissement du langage ou que le texte soit illusion féconde) posent le problème de la représentation de l'indicible ou de l'invisible et visent à transcender le réel. Tous ces textes s'interrogent en fin de compte sur la présentation de deux modes d'expression différents qui semblent impuissants séparément à rendre la perception du réel dans sa complétude et sa totalité mais dont le croisement permet d'atteindre le but impossible, la limite toujours repoussée qui, désormais, n'échappent plus au créateur.

Art and literature --- Arts, Canadian --- Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics) --- History --- Aesthetics --- Humanism in art --- Canadian arts --- Automatistes (Group of artists) --- Literature and art --- Literature and painting --- Literature and sculpture --- Painting and literature --- Sculpture and literature --- Literature --- Canada --- indicible --- littérature et peinture --- image et texte