This study examines the impact of new museological theory on museum education
practice at the Vancouver Art Gallery in relation to a re-installation of Emily Carr's work. It is a
case study that concerns both the negotiation of meanings around Emily Carr's work as they
are situated within current and traditional art historical/ historical beliefs, and the desire to offer
museum visitors a more sufficient or comprehensive educational experience.
The dissertation examines the installation of Carr in a variety of galleries across
Canada (National Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Vancouver
Art Gallery) as a means of contextualizing a range of problems associated with museum
practice. The National Gallery chapter explores issues of ideology raised by the new
museology. The chapter concerning the display at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
concerns the particularities of site and place (Victoria was Carr's birthplace) as well as
notions of resonance and contextualization in art displays. The discussion of the Art Gallery
of Ontario concerns contextualization of a different sort, the display created with a solid
foundation in educational literature. A temporary exhibition of Carr's work juxtaposed with
that of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun in Vancouver offers an entry point into a discussion of
subjectivity and curatorial epistemic authority, while the resulting re-installation of Carr at the
Vancouver Art Gallery (the case) is explored as one possible approach to issues raised in
the earlier chapters, by the challenges of post-modem theorists to historical understanding,
historiography, and museum practice.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/10784 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Knutson, Karen Leslie |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Relation | UBC Retrospective Theses Digitization Project [http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/retro_theses/] |
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