Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Preface xv
6. Rethinking Relevance: Studying the Visual in Canada 3
7. Preposterous Histories of the Present
8. Struck by Likening: Homer Watson, Jack Chambers, Gerhard Richter, and the Force of Art World Analogies 31
9. Feminist Art History in Canada: A “Limited Pursuit”? 47
10. Dealing With Chiastic Perspectives: Global Art Histories in Canada 66
11. The Location of/The Conditions for Art: On-Site Specifics and Site Adjustments 91
12. Out With the New
13. National Cultural Policy and the International Liberal Order 114
14. Visualizing the “New” North American Landscape 130
15. Arctic Culture/Global Indigeneity 150
16. The Vacant Lot: Who’s Buying It? 171
17. Discontiguous Dependencies
18. The Aesthetics of the Territory-Nation-State and the “Canadian Problematique” 188
19. Our Vacant Lot is a Trailer Park: Why English Canada’s Perpetual Threat of Disappearing Keeps Film and Television Alive 201
20. The Art of Conflict: Liberal Development after Neo-liberalism 217
21. Considering Sovereignty and Neo-liberalism Within Indeterminate States and Self-Determined Spaces 236
22. Bibliography 253
23. Contributors 275
24. Index 279