Douglas Macagy and the Foundations of Modern Art Curatorship

MacAgy, Douglas 1913-

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Born Canadian he lived in Europe and Manhattan for 40 years, has a PhD in political economics, worked for years at the New York Public Research Libraries where he was the president of the union of library workers. His latest novel, Spiral, is set against a background of events in Hamilton between and After losing her court case, Sarah and her two white children are sold to a slave dealer who rapes her and then must wait for her child to be born before selling her and the three children.

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She escapes when her youngest is three weeks old. Methodists, including the father of her first white child who is now a minister, and Quakers help her to safe houses in Ohio. A resourceful guide takes them on a perilous horseback ride through the wilderness to Cleveland. There she is tutored in freedom before being helped to a free Upper Canada where she finds work for an exploiting black innkeeper.

A young Scots entrepreneur, Duncan Campbell, sent by Montreal merchants to the village of Birdtown to save its retail business falls in love with Sarah and arranges for her, when she is pregnant, to come to his area, now called Simcoe, and work for a farmer. After their son is born, he employs her as his housemaid. They are tradespeople who work on the houses in contradistinction to mill workers in nearby Brantford.

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Douglas Macagy and the Foundations of Modern Art Curatorship [David Beasley] on www.farmersmarketmusic.com *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. MacAgy changed. Editorial Reviews. From the Author. A biography of an art curator is unusual, but then Douglas MacAgy was an unusual man. The story of his life is important for.

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Citations are based on reference standards. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. He graduated from McMaster University with a B. He moved to Simcoe, Ontario in and continued to write and publish books under his imprint Davus Publishing.

Awarded Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal for his writings.

Douglas MacAgy and the Foundations of Modern Art Curatorship

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Whereas Western artists tended to follow the intuitional, romantic emotional style of art springing from Gauguin and his circle and passing through the Fauvism of Matisse and the surrealists, a little known but persistent tradition of art flowed from Cezanne and Seurat through Cubism and formed a delta in the geometrical and Constructivist movements in Russia and Holland. There she is tutored in freedom before being helped to a free Upper Canada where she finds work for an exploiting black innkeeper. Although they later divorced, she used his name until her death. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. A young Scots entrepreneur, Duncan Campbell, sent by Montreal merchants to the village of Birdtown to save its retail business falls in love with Sarah and arranges for her, when she is pregnant, to come to his area, now called Simcoe, and work for a farmer.

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