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Rethinking Professionalism
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Rethinking Professionalism

Women and Art in Canada, 1850-1970
Edited by Kristina Huneault and Janice Anderson
Art/Photography/Design: Canadian, History: Art & Architecture, History: Canada, History: Women's, Women's And Gender Studies: Canadian
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The first collection of scholarly essays on women and art in Canadian history.


The history of women and art in Canada has often been celebrated as a story of progress from amateur to professional practice. Rethinking Professionalism challenges this narrative by questioning the assumptions that underlie the category of artistic professionalism, a construct as influential for artistic practice as it has been for art historical understanding.

Through a series of in-depth studies, contributors examine changes to the infrastructure of the art world that resulted from a powerful discourse of professionalization that emerged in the late- nineteenth century. While many women embraced this new model, others fell by the wayside, barred from professional status by virtue of their class, their ethnicity, or the very nature of the artworks they produced. The richly illustrated essays in this collection depict the changing nature of the professional paradigm as it was experienced by women painters, photographers, craftspeople, architects, curators, gallery directors, and art teachers. In so doing, they demonstrate the ongoing power of feminist art history to disrupt patterns of thought that have become naturalized and, accordingly, invisible.

Going beyond the narratives of recovery or exclusion that the category of professionalism has traditionally encouraged, Rethinking Professionalism explores the very consequences of telling the history of women's art in Canada through that lens.



Contributors include Annmarie Adams (McGill University), Alena Buis (Queen's University), Sherry Farrell Racette (University of Manitoba), Cynthia Hammond (Concordia University), Kristina Huneault (Concordia University), Loren Lerner (Concordia University), Lianne McTavish (University of Alberta), Kirk Niergarth (Mount Royal University), Mary O'Connor (McMaster University), Sandra Paikowsky (Concordia University), Ruth B. Phillips (Carleton University), Jennifer Salahub (Alberta College of Art & Design), and Anne Whitelaw (Concordia University).
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Part of the McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History Series (number 8 in series)

472 Pages, 7 x 10

140 colour illustrations

ISBN 9780773539662

April 2012

Formats: Cloth, eBook

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“Rethinking Professionalism is the fruit of two generations of feminist scholarship about women’s contributions to the arts. In its rigorously focused approach the book adds an important new dimension to our understanding of women’s participation in the visual arts and of the development of Canadian culture in general and brings to light the contributions and careers of many hitherto overlooked Canadian women in the visual arts.” Gerta Moray, professor emeritus of art history, University of Guelph
“Rethinking Professionalism is of tremendous value not only to women’s art history, but to Canadian art history as a whole, where it constitutes both a much needed expansion and a corrective.” Lora Senechal Carney, Department of Humanities, University of Toronto
“The essays in this collection provide a powerful and convincing entrypoint into a much needed conversation about the history of women’s cultural production and the values of art practice in Canada. This book would be a powerful addition to teaching and researching not just women’s history in Canada, but history in Canada more broadly, by highlighting what has been marginalized or rendered invisible in dominant narratives.” Histoire sociale / Social History
“The framework of professionalism allows for an exploration of women’s contributions in the cultural sphere that is far-reaching in scope. The real strength of this collection of essays is that it showcases a number of women who remain un(der)recognized in the history of Canadian culture.” Canadian Woman Studies / Les cahiers de la femme
“A compact tour de force, it provides a critical overview of the role of professionalism in writings on Canadian women artists and untangles the history of women, art, and professionalization in Canada to the mid-twentieth century. The selected essays form a tight-knit group. Such a critical study is long overdue.” University of Toronto Quarterly
Kristina Huneault is associate professor in art history at Concordia University and a co-founder of the Canadian Women Artists History Initiative.


Janice Anderson is adjunct professor in art history at Concordia University and a co-founder of the Canadian Women Artists History Initiative.

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