Icon In Canada

Author : Robert Bogdan Klymasz
Publisher : Canadian Museum of History
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Icon in Canada written by Robert Bogdan Klymasz and published by Canadian Museum of History. This book was released on 1996 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Separated from its origins in the Old World, Eastern Christian iconography in Canada has come to enjoy a popular following from coast to coast. The present volume documents this living tradition from a variety of perspectives to offer the first national survey of its kind. Here folklorists join with art historians, anthropologists, a scientist, a theologian, enthusiasts and iconographers to underscore the richness of a phenomenon that continues to captivate large segments of the country's population.

Author : Robert B. Klymasz
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 1772823643
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Icon in Canada written by Robert B. Klymasz and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Separated from its origins in the Old World, east Christian iconography in Canada has come to enjoy a popular following from coast to coast. With its fourteen chapters the present volume documents this living tradition from a variety of perspectives to offer the first national survey of its kind. Here, for the first time, folklorists join with art historians, anthropologists, a scientist, a theologian, enthusiasts, and iconographers to underscore the richness of a phenomenon that continues to captivate large segments of the country’s population.

Author : Michael Dawson
Publisher : Between the Lines
ISBN 13 : 1771133724
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symbols of Canada written by Michael Dawson and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Timbits to totem poles, Canada is boiled down to its syrupy core in symbolic forms that are reproduced not only on t-shirts, television ads, and tattoos but in classrooms, museums, and courtrooms too. They can be found in every home and in every public space. They come in many forms, from objects—like the red-uniformed Mountie, the maple leaf, and the beaver—to concepts—like free healthcare, peacekeeping, and saying “eh?”. But where did these symbols come from, what do they mean, and how have their meanings changed over time? Symbols of Canada gives us the real and surprising truth behind the most iconic Canadian symbols revealing their contentious and often contested histories. With over 100 images, this book thoroughly explores Canada’s true self while highlighting the unexpected twists and turns that have marked each symbol’s history.

Author : Kim Han
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781943824427
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Canadian Inuit Dog written by Kim Han and published by . This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As ruggedly beautiful as the circumpolar north in which it evolved, the Canadian Inuit Dog has been a vital partner to the Arctic's indigenous people for millennia, helping them travel, navigate, hunt and survive in their frozen world. Deeply researched and passionately written, this deft and respectful exploration of this ancient landrace's history, genetics, form and function also chronicles the Inuit Dog's clashes with modernity, which threaten its existence more ominously than any Arctic blizzard.

Author : Robert B. Klymasz
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 1772823678
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From chantre to djak written by Robert B. Klymasz and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The performance of sacred song often involves the talents of cantors, chanters, precentors, and criers – also known as chantres, djaky, psalem-sbebniki, bazanim, prolopsalti, and muezzins. This book explores a unique class of musicians from a variety of perspectives to offer the first survey of its kind. Folklorists join with ethnomusicologists, cantors, and enthusiasts to illuminate the many facets of this rich, living tradition.

Author : John N. Vardalas
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262264986
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Computer Revolution in Canada written by John N. Vardalas and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001-07-27 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forces that shaped Canada's digital innovations in the postwar period. After World War II, other major industrialized nations responded to the technological and industrial hegemony of the United States by developing their own design and manufacturing competence in digital electronic technology. In this book John Vardalas describes the quest for such competence in Canada, exploring the significant contributions of the civilian sector but emphasizing the role of the Canadian military in shaping radical technological change. As he shows, Canada's determination to be an active participant in research and development work on advanced weapons systems, and in the testing of those weapons systems, was a cornerstone of Canadian technological development during the years 1945-1980. Vardalas presents case studies of such firms as Ferranti-Canada, Sperry Gyroscope of Canada, and Control Data of Canada. In contrast to the standard nationalist interpretation of Canadian subsidiaries of transnational corporations as passive agents, he shows them to have been remarkably innovative and explains how their aggressive programs to develop all-Canadian digital R&D and manufacturing capacities influenced technological development in the United States and in Great Britain. While underlining the unprecedented role of the military in the creation of peacetime scientific and technical skills, Vardalas also examines the role of government and university research programs, including Canada's first computerized systems for mail sorting and airline reservations. Overall, he presents a nuanced account of how national economic, political, and corporate forces influenced the content, extent, and direction of digital innovation in Canada.

Author : Leslie Sklair
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190464208
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Icon Project written by Leslie Sklair and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last quarter century, a new form of iconic architecture has appeared throughout the world's major cities. Typically designed by globe-trotting "starchitects" or by a few large transnational architectural firms, these projects are almost always funded by the private sector in the service of private interests. Whereas in the past monumental architecture often had a strong public component, the urban ziggurats of today are emblems and conduits of capitalist globalization. In The Icon Project, Leslie Sklair focuses on ways in which capitalist globalization is produced and represented all over the world, especially in globalizing cities. Sklair traces how the iconic buildings of our era-elaborate shopping malls, spectacular museums, and vast urban megaprojects--constitute the triumphal "Icon Project" of contemporary global capitalism, promoting increasing inequality and hyperconsumerism. Two of the most significant strains of iconic architecture--unique icons recognized as works of art, designed by the likes of Gehry, Foster, Koolhaas, and Hadid, as well as successful, derivative icons that copy elements of the starchitects' work--speak to the centrality of hyperconsumerism within contemporary capitalism. Along with explaining how the architecture industry organizes the social production and marketing of iconic structures, he also shows how corporations increasingly dominate the built environment and promote the trend towards globalizing, consumerist cities. The Icon Project, Sklair argues, is a weapon in the struggle to solidify capitalist hegemony as well as reinforce transnational capitalist control of where we live, what we consume, and how we think.

Author : George Galavaris
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004064027
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Icon in the Life of the Church written by George Galavaris and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1981 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Annalise Bekkering
Publisher : Weigl Pub Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781770715776
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mounties written by Annalise Bekkering and published by Weigl Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mounties are an important symbol of Canada. Mounties explores the history, creation, and significance of these iconic law enforcement officers. The Canadian Icons series explores the symbols that helped shape the nation's identity. Each book recounts how each symbol came to be important to Canada and what role these symbols continue to play in Canadian society today.

Author : David H. Flaherty
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773564292
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beaver Bites Back? written by David H. Flaherty and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1993-12-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributing authors explore three aspects of American culture: its transmission by means of print and broadcast media and through live events in sport, entertainment, religious evangelism, and other public productions; its influence on Canadian popular culture; and the variety of Canadian responses. They suggest that the Canadian version of American popular culture is far more than a copy. Instead, it is frequently a creative response - often parodic in tone and subversive in intent - that gives public expression to Canadian sentiment and sensibility and provides protection from, and resistance to, American domination. Ironically, it may be in responding to American culture that Canadian sovereignty finds its most meaningful and potent articulation. Specialists and scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, the contributors discuss a range of cultural forms and performances. Each example, while "made in Canada," is related to an American alternative but has a large Canadian audience. Taking a rich variety of perspectives on this complex relationship, The Beaver Bites Back? demands that Canadian popular culture be accorded its proper status. The contributors are G. Stuart Adam, Michael M. Ames, Robert Knight Barney, Seth Feldman, Bruce Feldhusen, David H. Flaherty, Reid Gilbert, Andrew Lyons, Harriet Lyons, John MacAloon, Frank E. Manning, Thelma McCormack, Mary Jane Miller, Bernard Ostry, Charline Poirier, Paul Rutherford, Robert A. Stebbins, Michael Taft, Geoffrey Wall, and Andrew Wernick.