Charlotte Townsend‐gault
Biographic Data
| ID | 3833122 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charlotte Townsend‐gault |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charlotte |
| FAMILY NAME | Townsend‐gault |
| SIGNATURE | GAULT C T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Histoire de l’art et potlatch
Jean
Outside things inside
Indigenous people in Canada often bring attention to the continuities between their pasts and their presents. Such continuity is evident in the perpetual play of status concerns and their adaptation to relations between Native and non-Native. Status display remains active for new reasons and takes new forms in contemporary art. It is suggested that the relative status of the First Nations peoples in British Columbia, outsiders within the state wh…
World art
World art', as an unbounded catagory, is questioned. Three boundaries, are brought into view, and each is defined by a paradox. These are a) the display and marketing potential of culturally-specific things, b) the measures to protect them and c) the consequent effect of uncritical advocacy. Certainly evident in British Columbia, these boundaries may have a wider resonance in 'world art', and as such may be highlighted in this journal
Sea-lion whiskers and spray-crete
Two materials, disparate by some reckonings, are considered for the ways in which both are imbricated in contemporary status display. It is suggested that the role of status hierarchies in the public address of the Indigenous societies in British Columbia has been overlooked and that, due to the affective response they invoke, materials that represent these hierarchies are implicated in the contradictory tensions between display and disguise that…
Not a museum but a cultural journey
The Skwxwú7mesh or Squamish, a Coast Salish people, are one of the Four Host First Nations who constituted themselves into a supra-national corporate entity for the purpose of promoting, and protecting, their cultures during the 2010 Winter Olympics. The Sea to Sky Highway, carrying Olympic traffic between the sports venues of Vancouver and Whistler, runs through their un-ceded territory. The Skwxwú7mesh have merged the natural spectacle of the c…
The Art of Narritjin Maymuru
Rebecca Belmore and James Luna on Location at Venice
At the Venice Biennale of 2005 Rebecca Belmore's Fountain and James Luna's Emendatio , although presented in different locales, converged for reasons that knowingly complicated the fact that both artists are Native North Americans. Their works were allegories about, as well as for, the location: reliant on Venice as a city of allegorical certainty; reliant on allegories, skewed and traduced, about the Native. Venice as its own allegory was both r…
Circulating Aboriginality
First Nations designs and motifs derived from crest imagery have proliferated over the last two decades in urban British Columbia. Their circulation through public and private spaces is, however, subject to limitations, variously perceptible. The notion of figuration is used to consider the ways in which this material is apprehended. Non-natives through whose hands this material circulates, typically exercising what they think of as their rights …
First Nations Culture
Located in the context of discussion in urban British Columbia as to whether contemporary First Nations art should properly be referred to as “art” in the Western sense or whether it is, rather, the repository and communicator of culturally specific knowledge, this paper considers the ways in which both Native and non-Native observers are negotiating their various rights to this very public visual culture
At the margin or the center?—The anthropological study of art
Blocker, H. Gene, The Aesthetics of Primitive Art. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1994. xi + 330 pp. including references. $57.50 cloth, $34.50 paper. Coote, Jeremy and Anthony Shelton, eds. Anthropology, Art, and Aesthetics. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. xiii + 281 pp. including index. $95.00 cloth. Helms, Mary, W. Craft and the Kingly Ideal: Art, Trade, and Power. Austin: University of Texas Press. 1993. xii + 287 pp. including notes…
Eagle Transforming
Eagle Transforming: The Art of Robert Davidson. ROBERT DAVIDSON. with photographs by ULLI STELTZER. Seattle: University of Washington Press; and Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & Mclntyre, 1995. + 164 pp. 103 duotone illustrations, chronology, notes. $39.95 (cloth
Northwest Coast Art
its forests, without over-fishing its teeming waters, without interfering with its animal populations, without compromising the fertility of its berry bushes and medicinal plants. What is now called art was integrated into the whole complex of ways, practical and imaginative (which need not be separated), for maintaining a balanced relationship between humans and their environment. While in some important ways the tradition appears to be continuo…
Impurity and Danger
Symbolic Façades
Circulating Aboriginality
First Nations designs and motifs derived from crest imagery have proliferated over the last two decades in urban British Columbia. Their circulation through public and private spaces is, however, subject to limitations, variously perceptible. The notion of figuration is used to consider the ways in which this material is apprehended. Non-natives through whose hands this material circulates, typically exercising what they think of as their rights …
Symbolic Façades
Not a museum but a cultural journey
The Skwxwú7mesh or Squamish, a Coast Salish people, are one of the Four Host First Nations who constituted themselves into a supra-national corporate entity for the purpose of promoting, and protecting, their cultures during the 2010 Winter Olympics. The Sea to Sky Highway, carrying Olympic traffic between the sports venues of Vancouver and Whistler, runs through their un-ceded territory. The Skwxwú7mesh have merged the natural spectacle of the c…
Northwest Coast Art
its forests, without over-fishing its teeming waters, without interfering with its animal populations, without compromising the fertility of its berry bushes and medicinal plants. What is now called art was integrated into the whole complex of ways, practical and imaginative (which need not be separated), for maintaining a balanced relationship between humans and their environment. While in some important ways the tradition appears to be continuo…
Rebecca Belmore and James Luna on Location at Venice
At the Venice Biennale of 2005 Rebecca Belmore's Fountain and James Luna's Emendatio , although presented in different locales, converged for reasons that knowingly complicated the fact that both artists are Native North Americans. Their works were allegories about, as well as for, the location: reliant on Venice as a city of allegorical certainty; reliant on allegories, skewed and traduced, about the Native. Venice as its own allegory was both r…
Impurity and Danger
Sea-lion whiskers and spray-crete
Two materials, disparate by some reckonings, are considered for the ways in which both are imbricated in contemporary status display. It is suggested that the role of status hierarchies in the public address of the Indigenous societies in British Columbia has been overlooked and that, due to the affective response they invoke, materials that represent these hierarchies are implicated in the contradictory tensions between display and disguise that…
At the margin or the center?—The anthropological study of art
Blocker, H. Gene, The Aesthetics of Primitive Art. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1994. xi + 330 pp. including references. $57.50 cloth, $34.50 paper. Coote, Jeremy and Anthony Shelton, eds. Anthropology, Art, and Aesthetics. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. xiii + 281 pp. including index. $95.00 cloth. Helms, Mary, W. Craft and the Kingly Ideal: Art, Trade, and Power. Austin: University of Texas Press. 1993. xii + 287 pp. including notes…
Symbolic Façades
Impurity and Danger
Northwest Coast Art
its forests, without over-fishing its teeming waters, without interfering with its animal populations, without compromising the fertility of its berry bushes and medicinal plants. What is now called art was integrated into the whole complex of ways, practical and imaginative (which need not be separated), for maintaining a balanced relationship between humans and their environment. While in some important ways the tradition appears to be continuo…
Eagle Transforming
Eagle Transforming: The Art of Robert Davidson. ROBERT DAVIDSON. with photographs by ULLI STELTZER. Seattle: University of Washington Press; and Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & Mclntyre, 1995. + 164 pp. 103 duotone illustrations, chronology, notes. $39.95 (cloth
First Nations Culture
Located in the context of discussion in urban British Columbia as to whether contemporary First Nations art should properly be referred to as “art” in the Western sense or whether it is, rather, the repository and communicator of culturally specific knowledge, this paper considers the ways in which both Native and non-Native observers are negotiating their various rights to this very public visual culture
At the margin or the center?—The anthropological study of art
Blocker, H. Gene, The Aesthetics of Primitive Art. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1994. xi + 330 pp. including references. $57.50 cloth, $34.50 paper. Coote, Jeremy and Anthony Shelton, eds. Anthropology, Art, and Aesthetics. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. xiii + 281 pp. including index. $95.00 cloth. Helms, Mary, W. Craft and the Kingly Ideal: Art, Trade, and Power. Austin: University of Texas Press. 1993. xii + 287 pp. including notes…
Circulating Aboriginality
First Nations designs and motifs derived from crest imagery have proliferated over the last two decades in urban British Columbia. Their circulation through public and private spaces is, however, subject to limitations, variously perceptible. The notion of figuration is used to consider the ways in which this material is apprehended. Non-natives through whose hands this material circulates, typically exercising what they think of as their rights …
The Art of Narritjin Maymuru
Rebecca Belmore and James Luna on Location at Venice
At the Venice Biennale of 2005 Rebecca Belmore's Fountain and James Luna's Emendatio , although presented in different locales, converged for reasons that knowingly complicated the fact that both artists are Native North Americans. Their works were allegories about, as well as for, the location: reliant on Venice as a city of allegorical certainty; reliant on allegories, skewed and traduced, about the Native. Venice as its own allegory was both r…
World art
World art', as an unbounded catagory, is questioned. Three boundaries, are brought into view, and each is defined by a paradox. These are a) the display and marketing potential of culturally-specific things, b) the measures to protect them and c) the consequent effect of uncritical advocacy. Certainly evident in British Columbia, these boundaries may have a wider resonance in 'world art', and as such may be highlighted in this journal
Sea-lion whiskers and spray-crete
Two materials, disparate by some reckonings, are considered for the ways in which both are imbricated in contemporary status display. It is suggested that the role of status hierarchies in the public address of the Indigenous societies in British Columbia has been overlooked and that, due to the affective response they invoke, materials that represent these hierarchies are implicated in the contradictory tensions between display and disguise that…
Not a museum but a cultural journey
The Skwxwú7mesh or Squamish, a Coast Salish people, are one of the Four Host First Nations who constituted themselves into a supra-national corporate entity for the purpose of promoting, and protecting, their cultures during the 2010 Winter Olympics. The Sea to Sky Highway, carrying Olympic traffic between the sports venues of Vancouver and Whistler, runs through their un-ceded territory. The Skwxwú7mesh have merged the natural spectacle of the c…
Outside things inside
Indigenous people in Canada often bring attention to the continuities between their pasts and their presents. Such continuity is evident in the perpetual play of status concerns and their adaptation to relations between Native and non-Native. Status display remains active for new reasons and takes new forms in contemporary art. It is suggested that the relative status of the First Nations peoples in British Columbia, outsiders within the state wh…
Histoire de l’art et potlatch
Jean
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