National Gallery of Canada

Know about the book -

National Gallery of Canada is written by Douglas Ord and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0773570837 (ISBN 10) and 9780773570832 (ISBN 13).

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.