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- catalog abstract ""Hiding the Audience examines how the development of Canadian prairie arts institutions in the context of an implicitly Euro- or Anglo-Canadian audience clashed with the creation of regional arts that needed to acknowledge a Native Canadian presence to flourish. It looks in detail at the regional versus international strains in the history of the Banff Centre, at the development of the Glenbow Museum and the controversy over The Spirit Sings exhibition, at the two decades of contention regarding statues of Louis Riel in Regina and Winnipeg, and at the contrasts in audience participation in the 25th Street Theatre's productions of Prairie Wheat and Jessica." "Primarily a work of cultural history, this study uses archival sources, post-colonial theory, and the theories implied in the fiction of Cherokee author Thomas King to probe the ways in which the whitestream assumptions of the individuals who institutionalized the arts on the Prairies hid both a Native audience and the kinds of issues and presentations such an audience might reasonably expect to see - and that might help make the settler audience understand the responsibilities of becoming native to this place."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12451584.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""Hiding the Audience examines how the development of Canadian prairie arts institutions in the context of an implicitly Euro- or Anglo-Canadian audience clashed with the creation of regional arts that needed to acknowledge a Native Canadian presence to flourish. It looks in detail at the regional versus international strains in the history of the Banff Centre, at the development of the Glenbow Museum and the controversy over The Spirit Sings exhibition, at the two decades of contention regarding statues of Louis Riel in Regina and Winnipeg, and at the contrasts in audience participation in the 25th Street Theatre's productions of Prairie Wheat and Jessica." "Primarily a work of cultural history, this study uses archival sources, post-colonial theory, and the theories implied in the fiction of Cherokee author Thomas King to probe the ways in which the whitestream assumptions of the individuals who institutionalized the arts on the Prairies hid both a Native audience and the kinds of issues and presentations such an audience might reasonably expect to see - and that might help make the settler audience understand the responsibilities of becoming native to this place."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Orientalism and Indigeneity: Western Canadian Arts -- 2. The Nissan, the Pinto, the Karmann Ghia; Or, Columbus Was Expecting Indians -- 3. The Travelling Nude Finds a Home: The Banff Centre -- 4. If you Build It, They Will Come -- 5. Whose Spirit, What Song? -- 6. Any Important Form: Louis Riel in Sculpture -- 7. How Do You Grow an Audience? Paper Wheat, Jessica, and 25th Street Theatre -- 8. The Audience [Re]Emerges.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-289) and index.".
- catalog extent "xxiii, 301 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0888643764".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Edmonton, Alta., Canada : University of Alberta Press,".
- catalog spatial "Prairie Provinces.".
- catalog spatial "Provinces des Prairies".
- catalog spatial "Provinces des Prairies.".
- catalog subject "306.4/7/09712 21".
- catalog subject "Arts Provinces des Prairies Histoire.".
- catalog subject "Arts and society Prairie Provinces.".
- catalog subject "Arts et société Provinces des Prairies.".
- catalog subject "Arts, Canadian Prairie Provinces.".
- catalog subject "Multiculturalism Prairie Provinces.".
- catalog subject "NX180.S6 K39 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Orientalism and Indigeneity: Western Canadian Arts -- 2. The Nissan, the Pinto, the Karmann Ghia; Or, Columbus Was Expecting Indians -- 3. The Travelling Nude Finds a Home: The Banff Centre -- 4. If you Build It, They Will Come -- 5. Whose Spirit, What Song? -- 6. Any Important Form: Louis Riel in Sculpture -- 7. How Do You Grow an Audience? Paper Wheat, Jessica, and 25th Street Theatre -- 8. The Audience [Re]Emerges.".
- catalog title "Hiding the audience : viewing arts & arts institutions on the prairies / Frances W. Kaye.".
- catalog type "text".