Future Possible: An Art History of Newfoundland and Labrador
Edited by Mireille Eagan
8vo. pp. 309. profusely illustrated. index. boards. [Fredericton: N.B]: Goose Lane Editions & The Rooms Corporation of Newfoundland and Labrador, [2021].
Exhibition catalogue of a two-part exhibition.
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ISBN: 1773102044 / 9781773102047
Catalogue of two exhibitions: Future possible : art of Newfoundland & Labrador to 1949, May 12 to September 3, 2018 and Future possible : art of Newfoundland & Labrador 1949 to present, May 18 to September 22, 2019.
with Contributions from Mireille Eagan, Jamie Fitzpatrick, Andy Jones, Heather Igloliorte, Jeff Webb, Darryn Doull, Bushra Junaid, Cory Thorne, Kelley Totten, Patricia Grattan, Gerard Curtis, Caroline Stone, Craig Francis Power, Christopher Pratt, Logan MacDonald, Lisa Moore, Eva Crocker, Andria Hickey, and a foreword by Anne Chafe.
with Contributions from Mireille Eagan, Jamie Fitzpatrick, Andy Jones, Heather Igloliorte, Jeff Webb, Darryn Doull, Bushra Junaid, Cory Thorne, Kelley Totten, Patricia Grattan, Gerard Curtis, Caroline Stone, Craig Francis Power, Christopher Pratt, Logan MacDonald, Lisa Moore, Eva Crocker, Andria Hickey, and a foreword by Anne Chafe.
Newfoundland and Labrador is breathtakingly beautiful and a challenging place to live. It was Britain's oldest colony and is Canada's newest province. It's been a meeting place for - an is home to - Indigenous Peoples, explorers, settlers, come-from-aways.
What has this place of promise and disasters - and endless wellsprings of hope and loyalty - inspired in its artists? Eighteen writers and more than 180 colour images now answer that question in this first comprehensive art history of Newfoundland and Labrador.
What has this place of promise and disasters - and endless wellsprings of hope and loyalty - inspired in its artists? Eighteen writers and more than 180 colour images now answer that question in this first comprehensive art history of Newfoundland and Labrador.
From different vantage points, looking back and looking ahead, they examine the ways that the stories we tell, as individuals and as a collective, define and redefine our understanding of place, both its past and its future.