This thesis investigates and analyzes certain significant aspects of the Centennial celebrations of 1967 as they took place in Toronto-area schools. By considering the Centennial activities involving art, travel, music and historical pageantry—those deemed most significant by educational planners—I propose to evaluate how students, and Canadians in general, were thinking and learning about Canada and its people at the time. Throughout this essay, I argue that the Centennial celebrations are crucial evidence of a developing shift in the way that Canadians conceived of national identities and a change in how students were educated about Canadian history. In particular, I will argue that the Centennial celebrations in Toronto-area schools often demonstrated the continued development of a post-imperial vision of Canada’s national character, and an approach to history education which moved beyond the traditional timeline-oriented and British nation-building narratives that dominated early-twentieth-century Canadian education.

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Habitat 67 est un complexe résidentiel modulaire de 158 logements, conçu par Moshe Safdie, et construit à Montréal pour l’Exposition universelle de 1967. Sa médiatisation continue fut exceptionnelle par son intensité, son rayonnement et sa durée, en particulier dans la presse spécialisée. Nous avons étudié les publications d’Habitat 67 dans les périodiques d’architecture, une par une et comme un tout, car elles contenaient une énigme en forme de retournement médiatico-historiographique. En effet, Habitat 67 s’imposa d’abord, durant une décennie et sur le mode de l’hypermédiatisation, comme incarnation universelle d’un renouveau salvateur de l’architecture moderne progressiste, une « idée dont le temps est venu » selon la formule canonique de Peter Blake, rédacteur en chef de la revue new-yorkaise Architectural Forum. Puis, sans transition, Habitat 67 servit d’argument essentiel à l’enterrement express du même Mouvement moderne, à titre de fantasmagorie universitaire tardive et déliquescente, « projet de fin d’études construit » selon la sentence du critique et historien d’audience transatlantique Reyner Banham, qui reste prégnante jusqu’à nos jours. L’incohérence apparente laisse entrevoir l’existence d’un objet historique spécifique, Habitat 67 dans la presse architecturale, dans lequel le retournement trouverait origine et explication autonomes. D’où l’idée d’étudier cet objet pour lui-même, par lui-même, et dans son contexte propre. À la croisée des approches d’étude de la réception et d’esthétique de la réception telles que théorisées en histoire de l’art dans les années 1990, notamment par Dario Gamboni et Pierre Vaisse, nous partons à […]. / Habitat 67 is a residential complex of 158 modular apartments, designed by Moshe Safdie, and built in Montreal for the 1967 World Exhibition. Preliminary explorations of its unprecedentedly abundant, widespread and long-lasting coverage in the architectural press had revealed enigmatic synchronicity with the rise and fall of megastructure, ending in death and mourning of the whole Modern Movement. Taking advantage of theories of reception, this study is a methodical and exhaustive survey of the specialised mediatisation of Habitat 67, in itself and in its own context, aiming to establish the autonomy and critical historiographic impact of the phenomenon. After a methodological introduction, the report opens with a prologue unveiling early, academic related, self-training of Safdie as an analyst of editorial policies and their relationship to modern architecture. This portrait of a student pioneering in reception studies by militant commitment is giving brand new and much deeper understanding of the still historiographically vivid «student project that got built» diagnosis emitted in 1967 by critic Reyner Banham. The essay is then structured along the chronological succession of architectural projects and objects to which the media coverage is supposed to refer to, starting with thesis project of 1961. Safdie’s formerly published analysis of editorial policies appears to be fully integrated in the original design as well as in its mediatisation strategy, resulting in lasting and international diffusion as a highly relevant avant-garde feature, providing a progressive dimension to the capitalistic media-favourite «New Montreal Skyline», until 1963. [...]

The paper focuses on the Czechoslovak pavilions at the 1967 and 1970 World Expos. Both events took place in the period around 1968, when, however briefly, the Czechoslovak visual arts partially overlapped with the state's cultural policy. The pavilions (especially at Expo 70) also reflected the socio- political contexts of the year 1968.. In Czechoslovakia towards the end of the 1960s, the purpose of "exhibitioning" - i.e., the state-sponsored exhibition trade - was to communicate with the public and to (re)present the country abroad. Its main goal was to promote and spread the ruling ideology. On the other hand, the Czechoslovak visual arts scene was beginning to consciously work with the medium of the exhibition as a comprehensively composed unit, either through innovative exhibition design and installation or through installation art. While the exhibition trade reached its high point in the 1960s and began to disintegrate into rigid mannerism towards the end of the decade, real experiments with the format of the art exhibition were just beginning. This study focuses on the question of how these two fields (art and the exhibition trade) approached the medium of the exhibition in the 1960s. I study the Czechoslovak pavilions as a cultural artifact in which aesthetic, social, political, and economic forces...