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New issue is now online! National Gallery of Canada Review Volume 9, May 2018 NGCR Online: <http://bit.ly/ngcr9m18> http://bit.ly/ngcr9m18 “Islands of Memory” and Places to Land: Haudenosaunee Beadwork in the Schreiber Collection / « Îles mémorielles » et repaires: le perlage haudenosaunee dans la collection Schreiber <https://ngcr.utpjournals.press/author/Nahwegahbow%2C+Alexandra+Kahsenniio> Alexandra Kahsenni:io Nahwegahbow This article considers the mid-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Haudenosaunee beadwork in the Schreiber collection. Compiled over several years by private collector Marnie Schreiber, who recognized the significant lack of serious attention that Western art institutions had paid to Haudenosaunee objects of the tourist trade, this collection of art forms speaks to the wide range and variety of objects being produced for that purpose. In focusing on the historical context of these works and their cultural significance to the Haudenosaunee in articulating their world view, this article seeks to highlight the importance of this private collection in telling a richer and more truthful art history. In emphasizing the agency of the makers of these objects, and their active engagement in the negotiations of the tourist trade encounter, this essay also aims to centre the Indigenous experience and argues for ways in which beadwork can act as a mnemonic device that at once links the lives of past, present, and future Haudenosaunee. Read more at NGCR Online>>> http://bit.ly/ngcrv9a Photography as Gesture: How Photographs Make Things Happen / Le pouvoir créateur du geste photographique <https://ngcr.utpjournals.press/author/Kunard%2C+Andrea> Andrea Kunard This paper explores photography not simply as an image or document of an event but also as an event in its own right. The photograph, inscribed as gesture, prompts movement outward, demanding to be held, exchanged, and manipulated. In albums and personal displays of remembrance, it entangles the subjectivities of those it encounters. The photograph, set in motion through interpersonal relationships and consumer economies (tourism, celebrity), creates imagined communities of shared experience. Albums, often a product of women’s domestic labour, demonstrate how photographs actively create communities. A portrait of its assembler’s desires, the album retains not simply images but also traces of events initiated by the photographic act, revealing rich relations between photographs and users. Read more at NGCR Online>>> http://bit.ly/ngcrv9b Applying Nanoscience to Daguerreotypes: Understanding and Preserving the First Form of the Photograph / Appliquer la nanoscience aux daguerréotypes : comprendre et préserver la première forme de photographie <https://ngcr.utpjournals.press/author/Kozachuk%2C+Madalena+S> Madalena S. Kozachuk, <https://ngcr.utpjournals.press/author/McElhone%2C+John+P> John P. McElhone This research describes a preliminary study conducted as part of a collaboration between Western University (London, Ontario) and the Canadian Photography Institute of the National Gallery of Canada (NGC). Daguerreotypes with varying degrees of deterioration were supplied by the NGC conservation department’s study collection. Synchrotron- and laboratory-based techniques were used to examine the plates before they were electrocleaned. Synchrotron-based X-ray absorption spectroscopy and X-ray fluorescence microscopy, conducted at the Canadian Light Source (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan), enabled a chemical characterization of the surface alongside fluorescence mapping. Rapid-scanning fluorescence imaging recorded at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (Ithaca, New York) showed that the fluorescence signal from mercury could be used to retrieve images obscured by chemical and physical deterioration. The improved electrocleaning set-up established at the NGC and the implications of the subsequent studies are discussed. Read more at NGCR Online>>> http://bit.ly/ngcrv9c R. Mutt’s Fountain: Art Literally Turned Pear-Shaped; Duchamp’s Word Play / Fontaine de R. Mutt : l’art sens dessus dessous, ou quand Duchamp joue avec les mots <https://ngcr.utpjournals.press/author/Cevizli%2C+Antonia+Gatward> Antonia Gatward Cevizli In the one hundred years since Duchamp submitted Fountain for exhibition under the pseudonym “R. Mutt,” many have conjectured about the choice of name, despite Duchamp’s claim that he had wanted “any old name.” This seems unlikely given the value attached to words in Dada. In Duchamp’s choice of the name “R. Mutt,” it appears that he was aware of a number of interpretations that could be derived from the name’s connotations by speakers of English, French, German, and, as will be suggested here, Turkish. The Turkish reading of “R. Mutt” (armut means “pear”) raises the possibility that the decision to rotate the urinal sideways is less arbitrary than it first appears. In Fountain, Duchamp turned the idea of art, both literally and figuratively, pear-shaped. It is in the nonsensical and internationalist spirit of Dada that R. Mutt’s Fountain continues to tease – with its various possibilities of meaning through its connotations in different languages – and yet ultimately remains enigmatic. Read more at NGCR Online>>> <http://bit.ly/ngcrv9d> http://bit.ly/ngcrv9d National Gallery of Canada Review is the official scholarly journal of the National Gallery of Canada (NGC). Its purpose is to publish original research on works in the Gallery’s collections and the areas of investigation they represent. Articles are contributed by members of the Gallery staff. Contributions from art historians and specialists not affiliated with the NGC will be considered. 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