Quebec: a painting by Adam Miller

73 Pages·2017·6.209 MB·English

by  Miller, Adam

Quebec: A Painting by Adam Miller

Quebec
A Painting by Adam Miller
Published for Editions Salvatore Guerrera
by
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Montreal & Kingston • London • Chicago
© McGill-Queen’s University Press2017
isbn978-0-7735-5164-0(cloth)
isbn978-0-7735-5270-8(epdf)
Legal deposit fourth quarter 2017
Bibliothèque nationale du Québec
Printed in Canada on acid-free paper
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year
invested $153million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.
Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier,
le Conseil a investi 153millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des
Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Quebec (Montréal, Québec)
Quebec : a painting by Adam Miller.
Includes bibliographical references.
Issued in print and electronic formats.
isbn978-0-7735-5164-0(hardcover).–isbn978-0-7735-5270-8(epdf)
1. Miller, Adam, 1979–. Quebec. I. Title.
nd237.m55a68 2017 759.13 c2017-906158-5
c2017-906159-3
I dedicate this publication and artwork
To my entire family
My mother Anna Mancini
My late father Giovanni Guerrera
My mother-in-law Yvette Leclair
My late father-in-law Charles Proulx
My daughter Vanessa
My son Jonathan and daughter-in-law Fojan
My two granddaughters Stella and Audrina
My sister Gina and family
My brother-in-law Richard and family
And to the love of my life
my dear wife Diane
A gift, a story
Salvatore Guerrera

Contents
ix Preface
Salvatore Guerrera
3 Note on Adam Miller and the Painting of History
François-Marc Gagnon
13 A History of Quebec in the Shadow of the Quiet Revolution
Alexandre Turgeon
25 The New Objectivism
Donald Kuspit
40 Interview with Adam Miller
Clarence Epstein
59 Contributors

Preface
Salvatore Guerrera
The year 2017marks many important milestones in the history
of Canada. Our country is 150years old. We are marking 225
years of parliamentary institutions in Quebec. Montreal is
celebrating its 375th anniversary. Fifty years ago, the whole
world was converging in Montreal for Expo 67. The Canadian
Charter of Rights and Freedoms was adopted thirty-five years
ago. All of these events have helped to build Canada as we
know it. My intention through commissioning this painting
from Adam Miller is for all Canadians to better appreciate
Quebec’s immense contribution to the core identity of
our country.
My father arrived by ship in Halifax in 1952, my mother the
following year, and they settled in Montreal. This was the com-
mon route for many Italian immigrants making their way to
Canada. I was born in 1955, the first of two children. Growing
up in postwar Quebec, we maintained the core values of a