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Author Barber, Bruce

Title Voices of Fire : Art, Rage, Power, and the State
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (228 pages)
Series Theory / Culture
Theory/culture series.
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Credits -- Introduction: Bruising the Public Eye -- Documents -- Chronology -- Graphic Satires -- Texts -- Essays -- Vox Ignis Vox Populi -- Thalia Meets Melpomene: The Higher Meaning of the Voice of Fire and Flesh Dress Controversies -- Who's Afraid of Barnett Newman? -- Symposium -- Voicing the Fire of the Fierce Father -- Tightrope Metaphysics -- The Sculpture of Barnett Newman -- Specific Thoughts about the Making and Meaning of Voice of Fire -- General Discussion -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Summary This anthology can be seen as a case-study, providing both a historical account of the outcome of the National Gallery's purchase of the painting and an understanding of why the gallery's actions provoked such strong opinions and feelings
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-202) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Newman, Barnett, 1905-1970. Voice of fire.
National Gallery of Canada -- Appropriations and expenditures
SUBJECT National Gallery of Canada. fast (OCoLC)fst00531857
Voice of fire (Newman, Barnett) fast (OCoLC)fst01387098
Subject Painting, American -- Political aspects -- Canada
Painting, Abstract -- Political aspects -- Canada
Art and state -- Canada -- Case studies
Painting, Abstract -- Public opinion
Public opinion -- Canada
Art and state.
Expenditures, Public.
Public opinion.
Canada.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Form Electronic book
Author Guilbaut, Serge
O'Brian, John
ISBN 9781442683167
1442683163
0802007546
9780802007544
0802078036
9780802078032