A Cultivating Journey / Un Voyage Au Coeur de L'art: The Herman H. Levy Legacy / Le Legs Herman H. Levy (English and French Edition)

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A Cultivating Journey examines the collection of significant European historical and modern art donated to the McMaster Museum of Art by Herman Levy in 1984, and includes works by Courbet, Derain, Monet, Pissarro and Van Gogh. Today the production of such a project raises the critical question: how does the museum collect in the twenty-first century? This would have been a much easier consideration when the Levy donation entered the museum's collection. Up until that time, art history and the museum were Western inventions that served a particular period (circa 1860-1980) without contestation. The situation has since changed, forcing a reconsideration of the making, collecting, and presenting of art in a diverse and global world through a decidedly ideological institution. This thoroughly illustrated publication serves as both exhibition catalogue as well as an analysis of the task at hand. In essays and extended didactic statements on individual works, experts in their fields document the conundrum while speaking to/in the present museological moment. Discussions include the act of collecting; the transfer of personal to public; the enduring yet changing cultural significance of works of art - formally and socio-politically; the changing nature of collections; and the role of the museum in naming, classifying, interpreting, and maintaining works of cultural heritage.

A Cultivating Journey: The Herman H. Levy Legacy was published to accompany the exhibition organized by the McMaster Museum of Art curated by Dr. Ihor Holubizky, Senior Curator. 

McMaster Museum of Art: September 1 - December 9, 2017
Vancouver Art Gallery: March 3 - May 21, 2018
Kelowna Art Gallery: June 16 - October 28, 2018

 

Foreword by Carol Podedworny
Essays by Tabitha Barber, Tobi Bruce, Lloyd DeWitt, Ihor Holubizky, Alex Kidson, Alison McQueen, Kim Ness, Caterina Pierre 

250 pages
8.8 x 11.2 inches
ISBN 9781926632186 
Softcover
ABC Art Books Canada 
2018