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Chapter 6 Glossary Click here to go to the glossary table of contents. This is not a glossary in the conventional
sense, and it does not include most of the conventional art terms
readily available in such publications as James Smith Pierce’s
From Abacus to Zeus1
or John Albert Walker’s Glossary
of Art, Architecture, and Design
since 19452.
On the one hand, this glossary is intended to explain, in an undoubtedly
oversimplified way, many of the terms and concepts appearing in
the case studies and other chapters of this book. On the other hand,
it is also intended to provide food for thought and potential alternatives
to the types of discourse represented in the case studies. As such,
the glossary has an agenda
that relates to the study of Canadian visual
culture presented. Readers wanting fully objective
definitions of terms would be well advised to pursue the references
to the original sources. (All the sources in this chapter are gathered
in section 6 of the bibliography.) Additional information may be
available at the website entitled Words
of Art,
from which this glossary is largely excerpted. Words
of Art is maintained and frequently
updated by the author at http://www.arts.ouc.bc.ca/fina/glossary/gloshome.html.
Click here to go to the glossary table of contents. 1. James Smith Pierce,
From Abacus to Zeus: A Handbook
of Art History, 5th ed. (Englewood
Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1995).
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