A Monument for Italian-Canadian Immigrants
Author: A. Manuela (Amalia Manuela) Scarci
Publisher: Department of Italian Studies, University of Toronto
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9780772789549
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Such Hardworking People
Author: Franca Iacovetta
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1992-03-24
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0773563156
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Iacovetta examines the changes many had to face during the transition from peasant worker in an under-developed, rural economy to wage-earner in an urban, industrial society. Their experiences in Canada, she reveals, were shaped by class, gender, and ethnicity as well as familial responsibilities, government policies, and racism. In addition to conducting numerous interviews, Iacovetta has drawn on recent scholarship in immigration, family, labour studies, oral history, and women's history. Although both women and men struggled and were exploited, Iacovetta shows that they found innovative ways to recreate cherished rituals and customs from their homeland and managed to derive a sense of dignity and honour from the labours they performed.
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The Italians in Canada
The Italian Immigrant Experience
Author: Canadian Italian Historical Association
Publisher: Thunder Bay, Ont. : Canadian Italian Historical Association
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 176
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Author: Roberto Perin
Publisher: Guernica Editions
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 264
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Public Art in Canada
Author: Annie Gérin
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2011-03-18
Total Pages: 706
ISBN-13: 1442697083
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Arguably, public art is experienced daily by more people than most offerings in galleries, yet our notion of what constitutes public art is surprisingly limited. Public Art in Canada broadens the critical discussion by exploring public art's varied means of engaging with public space and the public sphere. Annie Gérin and James S. McLean have assembled contributions from new and established Canadian scholars, curators, and artists. Each contributor enlivens our understanding of public art as a practice and its place in the social and aesthetic formation of which it is a part. As a result, the book provides an overview of the current debates in the field of public art that are informed by the theories and critical literature of art history, communication studies, cultural studies, sociology, and urban studies. The rigorous essays and original works of art collected in this volume present a compelling demonstration of the strategies, aesthetic and otherwise, used by artists to elicit intellectual, sensual, or emotional responses that can only be obtained through artistic practices in public places. Public Art in Canada is a major contribution to the study of Canadian art and culture.
Not Paved with Gold
Author: Vincenzo Pietropaolo
Publisher: Between the Lines(CA)
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781897071083
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection of stunning photographs and inspired commentary documents the lives of Italian immigrants to Toronto. Award-winning photographer and cultural historian Vincenzo Pietropaolo has spent much of his life taking pictures inside the tightly knit Italian-Canadian community. While the images in this book are part of the fabric of life in Toronto, they transcend the specificity of place to evoke the lives of immigrants in cities around the world. With a foreword by novelist Nino Ricci, and context provided by the photographer, "Not Paved with Gold" pays tribute to the broad spectrum of the immigrant experience.
Forgotten Italians
Author: Konrad Eisenbichler
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2019-01-02
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 148751929X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Scholarship on Italian emigration has generally omitted the Julian-Dalmatians, a group of Italians from Istria and Dalmatia, two regions that, in the wake of World War Two, were ceded by Italy to Yugoslavia as part of its war reparations to that country. Though Italians by language culture, and traditions, it seems that this group has been conveniently excised from history. And yet, Julian-Dalmatians constitute an important element in twentieth-century Italian history and represent a unique aspect of both Italian culture and emigration. This ground-breaking collection of articles from an international team of scholars opens the discussion on these “forgotten Italians” by briefly reviewing the history of their diaspora and then by examining the literary and artistic works they produced as immigrants to Canada. Forgotten Italians offers new insights into such celebrated authors as Diego Bastianutti, Mario Duliani, Caterina Edwards, and Gianni Angelo Grohovaz, as well as visual artists such as Vittorio Fiorucci and Silvia Pecota. Profoundly marked by the experience of being uprooted and forced into exile, by life in refugee camps, and by the encounter with a new culture, first-generation Julian-Dalmatians in Canada used art and writing to come to terms with their anguished situation and to rediscover their cultural roots.
