The Last Art College
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1968-1978
- Hardcover
480 pages
- Release Date
24 February 2012
Summary
The long-awaited history of the art college that became an unlikely epicenter of the art world in the 1960s and 1970s.
How did a small art college in Nova Scotia become the epicenter of art education—and to a large extent of the postmimimalist and conceptual art world itself—in the 1960s and 1970s? Like the unorthodox experiments and rich human resources that made Black Mountain College an improbable center of art a generation earlier, the activities and artists at Nova Scoti…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262016902 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262016907 |
| Author: | Garry Neill Kennedy |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 24 February 2012 |
| Weight: | 2.31kg |
| Dimensions: | 38mm x 229mm x 298mm |
| Series: | The Last Art College |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
In the end, The Last Art College: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1968-1978 becomes Kennedy’s greatest work to date as a conceptual artist. He has found a way to make the college’s vision and material production stand the test of time.
* The Architect’s Newspaper *Garry Neill Kennedy
Garry Neill Kennedy is a Canadian conceptual artist who was awarded the Portia White Prize by the Arts Council of Nova Scotia in 2000 and a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2004. From 1967 to 1990 he was President of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
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