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Culture in Canada - Visual Arts

Rodney Graham: "Cityself / Countryself". Courtesy Lisson Gallery. Janet Cardiff / George Bures Miller: "The Muriel Lake Incident". Courtesy Galerie Barbara Weiss. Jeff Wall: Untitled (Overpass). Courtesy Galerie Johnen und Sch”ttle

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Trends in Contemporary Canadian Art

Contemporary art in Canada, as elsewhere, is marked by a questioning of the nature of art - what art has been about historically, what it ought to be about, and who its intended audience is to be. This questioning has been accompanied by experimentation and innovation. The resulting work varies in content from the intensely personal to the public investigation of social and political issues; it ranges in form from the intellectually disciplined to the free and intuitive; and differs in production from the solitary to the collective. more...

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