Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Magnetic Space
6. From Outside 5
7. From Inside 19
8. Inviting in Lawren Harris 33
9. Inviting in Plato on Grace and Gracelessness 45
10. The Field Before (1910-65)
11. Eric Brown: A Gatherer of Visions 55
12. Brown, “National Spirit,” and “Futurism” 75
13. Vincent Massey and the Transformation of Rhetoric 101
14. Alan Jarvis as “the Billy Graham of Canadian Art” 129
15. A Canadian Tragi-Comedy 157
16. The Evolution of a Style (1966-90)
17. Humanism, “Openness,” and Jean Sutherland Boggs 187
18. Centennialism 221
19. The First Triumvirate: The National Museums of Canada 247
20. The New Triumvirate: Trudeau, Boggs, Safdie 279
21. A “Magical Spot” 313
22. Potentialities 343
23. “The Spiritual Foundations of Our National Life”? 367
24. Notes 399
25. Bibliography 441
26. Index 455