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The Young Canadians.

Publication: C: International Contemporary Art
Publication Date: 22-SEP-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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The idea of doing a Young Canadians issue of C came up as a way to showcase a number of artists whose work we like. The artists featured are young in the sense that all Canadians are young and in the sense that the idea of Canada itself evokes the youthful optimism of 1965, the year we the by...

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...adopted red and white maple leaf flag, championed Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, as our national symbol. The white spaces on the Canadian flag signal the blank spaces of newness, neutrality and maybe even surrender; the colour red points to democratic values (by evoking Coca-Cola, for example) and socialism--both strong attributes of Canada even today.

It's a reflection of that socialist-democratic ethos that the idea that certain artists could be "better" than others is controversial. Canada is not...

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