ARTH 370 Studies in Canadian Art: Modern Craft in Quebec
ARTH 370 Studies in Canadian Art: Modern Craft in Quebec
- T & TH 12:15-14:45
- EV-1-605
- Instructor: Dr. Bruno Andrus
This course will critically address the history of modern craft in relation to the particular socio-cultural context of Quebec. Focusing on the 20thcentury, the course will offer an in-depth account of the development of this field as a whole, while also looking at different trades related to the transformation of specific materials such as ceramics, textiles, wood, metal and glass. We will examine the period of the Quiet Revolution, when artisanal productions were invested with different, often conflicting, values linked to the negotiation of identity in Quebec. The course will introduce case studies related to a variety of modern craft productions ranging from the hand-made to the industrially-manufactured to the artistic installation; in this way we will examine how objects can shift from one category to another between métiers d’art, craft, art, design and architecture, or occupy ambiguous spaces of convergence between such categories and nomenclatures.