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Item Details
Title: Totem Poles and Long Houses at the University of British Columbia
Format: Photograph
Location: VPL Special Collections
Fonds: Historical Photographs, VPL #85817
More Information: Collection of the Vancouver Public Library, Special Collections, VPL 85817.
Further Research: Aboriginal Art in the SixtiesRelated Items
- 01. Festival of the Contemporary Arts 1965
Abraham Rogatnick (Ephemera) - 02. Kwakiute (Thunderbird) pole
Ellen Neel (Photograph) - 03. Katherine Hepburn receiving totem pole carved by Ellen Neel from Harry Duker, Totem Land Society
Ellen Neel (Photograph) - 04. Instructions for Computer Poem 3 — Night and Day/Installation View from Concrete Poetry Catalogue
Stephen Scobie (Book) - 05. Literature - Transparent and Opaque from Concrete Poetry Catalogue
Ian Wallace (Book) - 06. David Orcutt Performance
Michael de Courcy and David Orcutt (Photograph) - 07. The Photo Show: Documentation of exhibition
Christos Dikeakos (Photograph) - 08. Festival 1961 of the Contemporary Arts Feb. 6th to 11th
(Ephemera)
More Related Items
- 09. 24 Letter Drawing portfolio from Concrete Poetry Catalogue
Michael Morris (Book) - 10. Glenn Lewis installation at Intermedia Nights
Michael de Courcy and Glenn Lewis (Photograph) - 11. Totem carvers, Ellen Neel and Family
Ellen Neel and Ted Neel (Photograph) - 12. Indian Art, Vancouver Sun, July 6, 1948
Ted Neel and Ellen Neel (Ephemera) - 13. Bill Reid and Doug Cranmer carving cedar log in Totem Park
Doug Cranmer and Bill Reid (Photograph) - 14. Robert Davidson carving totem pole at "Man in His World"
Robert Davidson (Photograph) - 15. Creator of Totem Pole, Native Voice, September 1954
Arthur Moody (Ephemera)
Project Sites
Discrete project sites documenting the work of specific artists and collectives in detail.
- 01Aboriginal Art in the Sixties
Curated by Marcia Crosby
Research by Roberta Kremer Designed by The Future - 02Al Neil
Curated by Glenn Alteen Designed by Archer Pechawis - 03Expanded Literary Practices
Curated by Charo Neville
and Michael Turner Designed by The Future - 04The Intermedia Catalogue
Created by Michael de Courcy
Research by Sarah Todd Designed by James Szuszkiewicz - 05Transmission Difficulties
Curated by Scott Watson Designed by Dexter Sinister
- 01Aboriginal Art in the Sixties
Essays
Essays and conversation providing a context for exploring the Project Sites and Archives.
- 01Making Indian Art “Modern”
By Marcia Crosby - 02Vancouver Cinema in the Sixties
By Zoë Druick - 03UBC in the Sixties: A Conversation
Edited by Marian Penner Bancroft - 04Siting the Banal: The Expanded Landscapes of the N.E. Thing Co.
By Nancy Shaw - 05Urban Renewal: Ghost Traps, Collage, Condos, and Squats
By Scott Watson
- 01Making Indian Art “Modern”
Video Interviews
Video interviews conducted between December 2008 and May 2009 reflecting on Vancouver’s art scene in the sixties.
- 01Ingrid Baxter with Grant Arnold
- 02Christos Dikeakos with Lorna Brown
- 03Carole Itter with Lorna Brown
- 04Gary Lee-Nova with Scott Watson