Catalogue

Under the general editorship of Hilliard T. Goldfarb, the exhibition catalogue has been published by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ Publishing Department, co-published and distributed internationally by Somogy Éditions d’art.  This major 320-page publication, with 220 illustrations, includes essays by the members of the academic committee and constitutes a major contribution to the understanding of this period and its landscape art. Available in separate English and French editions, the catalogue is sold at the Museum Boutique and Bookstore for $59.95.
 
Two partners have been entrusted with various aspects of the catalogue: orangetango is responsible for the graphic design and Transcontinental Litho Acme for the printing. The catalogue mock-up will be printed on two different types of paper: for the text, rough paper composed of 100% post-consumer fibres, and for the reproduction of the works, a less absorbent paper composed of 30% post-consumer fibres. The printing will involve aluminum printing plates, vegetable inks and FSC-certified paper.

Eco-design – An Eco Catalogue

In keeping with the exhibition’s theme of celebrating nature, the Museum is making a green shift for the design and catalogue of the exhibition by following the principles of eco-design.

Eco-design is a contemporary practice that takes into account the re-use capacity and composition of materials, with a bias towards local products. In order to implement this innovative initiative, the Museum has been collaborating with a number of professionals. For the exhibition design, two companies have accepted the challenge: architecture firm Atelier Big City in Montreal and molo design studio in Vancouver. The design concept emphasizes recyclable or reusable materials, and the construction methods are mostly mechanical. The exhibition’s rest areas have been furnished with paper softseating, paper benches made out of 50% recycled content. Their organic and harmonious geometrical forms echo the design of the exhibition by creating actual interior landscapes.

List of authors

Philip Brookman
Director of Curatorial Affairs
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington

Brian Foss
Associate Dean Academic and Students Affairs
Faculty of Fine Arts, Université Concordia, Montréal

François-Marc Gagnon
Director
The Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, Université Concordia, Montréal

Hilliard T. Goldfarb
Associate Chief Curator
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Richard Hill
Assistant Professor
Art History and Visual Arts Department, York University, Toronto

Lynda Jessup
Associate Professor,
Department of Art, Queen’s University, Kingston

T. J. Jackson Lears
Professor
Rutgers History Department, Rutgers University, New Brunswick (New Jersey)

Rosalind Pepall
Senior Curator of Decorative Arts 
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Ian Thom
Senior Curator of Canadian Art
Vancouver Art Gallery

Summary

Preliminary texts 

• Hilliard T. Goldfarb, Crossed Destinies: Manifesting the Paths of Nationhood in the United States and Canada through Landscapes, 1860–1918 (2700 words)
• Jackson Lears, Flexible Frontiers: Expansion, Contraction, Regeneration (5700 words)

Section 1 – Nature Transcendent

• Rosalind Pepall, The Most Northerly Horizon (3800 words)
• François-Marc Gagnon, The Forest, Niagara and the Sublime (3000 words)
• Works with entries

Section 2 – The Stage of History and the Theatre of Myth

• Lynda Jessup, Looking at Landscape in the Age of Environmentalism (3800 words)
• Richard Hill, Too Silent to be Real (3400 words)
• Works with entries

Section 3 – Man Vs. Nature

• Ian Thom, Painting and Photography in British Columbia, 1871–1916: Some Observations (3300 words)
• Works with entries

Section 4 – Nature Domesticated

• Brian Foss, Word and Image: North American Landscape in Nineteenth-century Illustrated Publications (3500 words)
• Hilliard T. Goldfarb, John Singer Sargent’s Adventurous Summer in the Canadian Rockies: The Visit to the Yoho Valley in 1916 (3800 words)
• Works with entries

Section 5 – Urban Landscape

• Philip Brookman, “To Pavements and Homesteads Here”—Landscape, Photography, and the Transcendence of Time and Space (3900 words)
• Works with entries

Section 6 – The Return to Nature

• Introductory text (350 words)
• Works with entries

End matter

• Chronology
• Biographies of artists
• Lists of works / figures
• Bibliography

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