Trading on Art: Cultural Diplomacy and Free Trade in North America eBook

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At the end of the twentieth century, North America was reinvented as an economically cohesive whole, united by free trade. But within the bold concept of continental unity expressed by the 1989 Canada-US Free Trade Agreement and 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement lay a paradox. While art was mobilized to frame this new narrative, culture itself was explicitly excluded from the agreements that implemented this vision. Trading on Art brings culture to the fore by examining a wealth of artworks, exhibitions, and museum programs from the 1980s to 2010. On one hand, initiatives such as 49th Parallel, a gallery of contemporary Canadian art in New York City, communicated government-supported messaging about economic integration. Conversely, works such as Free Expression, by Canadian activist artists Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge, articulated apprehension about impending US cultural hegemony. Sarah E.K. Smith reveals how Canadian artists engaged with, contested, and reflected on free trade, paying particular attention to the ways in which art was used to forge ties between Canada and Mexico and to circulate ideas about North American identity. Her nuanced analysis convincingly makes the case for the centrality of art in conceptualizing continental unity.

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Trading on Art: Cultural Diplomacy and Free Trade in North America is written by Sarah E.K. Smith and published by UBC Press. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Trading on Art are 9780774868938, 0774868937 and the print ISBNs are 9780774868914, 0774868910. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9780774868945, 9780774868921.