Status
Available
Call number
Collections
Publication
Natl Gallery of Canada (1995), Edition: 1st
Original language
English
Physical description
82 p.
ISBN
0888846444 / 9780888846440
Call number
MON.WOP.95
Library's review
Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, shown at the National Gallery of Canada from September 21, 1995 - January 7, 1996.
'As a "hyphenated Canadian of Chinese extraction, Paul Wong was obliged to live out the conflicts inherent in that situation. On the one hand
(Abstract from foreword by Dr. Shirley L. Thomson, Director of the National Gallery of Canada)
'As a "hyphenated Canadian of Chinese extraction, Paul Wong was obliged to live out the conflicts inherent in that situation. On the one hand
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was the desire to preserve his cultural roots, on the other the pull towards integration. The artist's works testify to complexities and contradictions of a sort experienced by many young Canadians, and delineate a long journey with numerous fluctuations between rejection and acceptance, sadness and euphoria, until finally an equilibrium is attained. In his often controversial works, Paul Wong makes us travel through the myriad twists and turns of our culture, which can be both superficial in nature and contradictory."(Abstract from foreword by Dr. Shirley L. Thomson, Director of the National Gallery of Canada)
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Pages
82