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Dr. Gagnon Receives Prix du Canada

March 1, 2013
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François-Marc Gagnon François-Marc Gagnon

The Department of Art History warmly congratulates Dr. François-Marc Gagnon for having been awarded the 2013 Prix du Canada "Canada Prize in the Humanities."

Dr. Gagnon, Founding Director and Distinguished Research Fellow of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art and internationally recognized scholar in Canadian visual culture, also teaches two brilliantly conceived e-Concordia courses: "Introduction to Canadian Art" and "From Realism to Abstraction in Canadian Art." He was honoured at a reception this past weekend in Ottawa.

The Codex Canadensis The Codex Canadensis

The Prix du Canada honours the work that François-Marc Gagnon, Nancy Senior, and Réal Ouellet have done in preparing, as the Prix du Canada jury describes it, " a stunning bilingual edition of two remarkable and little-known manuscripts: the Codex Canadensis and the Histoire naturelle des Indes Occidentales by Louis Nicolas, one-time Jesuit missionary to New France. The picture-book of the Codex and the description of the Histoire naturelle provide fascinating and fresh evidence for how a seventeenth-century European understood the peoples, flora, and fauna of the New World and for how lives were lived and bodies adorned among First Nations peoples."

In addition to this honour, Dr. Gagnon received the Governor General's Award (1978) for his critical biography of Paul-Émile Borduas and was was awarded the Order of Canada (1999). His books include La Conversion par l'image (1975), Paul-Émile Borduas: Ecrits/Writings 1942-1958 (1978), Paul-Émile Borduas (1988), and Chronique du mouvement automatiste québécois 1941-1954 (1998).



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