23 novembre 2006 au 20 janvier 2007
Tue/Wed/Fri 11 am - 5 pm, Thursday 11 am - 7 pm, Saturday 12 - 5 pm, Sundays & Mondays closed
McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton (Ontario)
Internationally acclaimed, Canadian Arnaud Maggs (1926-) can be considered a photo-anthropologist or cultural historian using his camera as a way of re-presenting and ordering aspects of the past. He is best known for his serial photographs of everything from mug shots and death notices to French hotel signs.
Now investigating classifications of colour, Maggs has shot each page of two 19th century texts. The first, Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours (1814) was praised by Darwin for its merits to the arts and sciences. It contains pages of colour chits, accompanied by listings of the colour’s appearance in other forms in nature. The other text, Cercles Chromatiques (1861) by M.E. Chevreul, is a rare publication of purely theoretical content including eleven colour wheels.
Pay what you can, if you can with a suggested donation of $2.00. Students and seniors are always free.
RoseAnne Prevec
prevecr@mcmaster.ca
