- Transmission Difficulties
- Vancouver Painting in the 1960s
- A painting is a pitiable thing . . .
- The experience of a work of art . . .
- A painting is mediumistic . . .
- By Scott Watson
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Given the currency of multimedia and communication theory in the sixties, it is ironic that the catalytic figure for the generation of young Vancouver painters who emerged in the mid-sixties was to a considerable degree a New York modernist.13
Video screening at Intermedia, Michael de Courcy, Al Neil, Roy Kiyooka, 1970
Roy Kiyooka came to teach at the Vancouver School of Art in 1960, preceded by two of his Regina students, Brian Fisher and Claude Breeze. Kiyooka's role in instigating a change in local painting is often portrayed as a medium for the ideas of Barnett Newman, whom he had met and workshopped with at Emma Lake in 1957.
But accounts of Kiyooka's pedagogy reveal that he was effective . . .
Given the currency of multimedia and communication theory in the sixties, it is ironic that the catalytic figure for the generation of young Vancouver painters who emerged in the mid-sixties was to a considerable degree a New York modernist.13
Video screening at Intermedia, Michael de Courcy, Al Neil, Roy Kiyooka, 1970
Roy Kiyooka came to teach at the Vancouver School of Art in 1960, preceded by two of his Regina students, Brian Fisher and Claude Breeze. Kiyooka's role in instigating a change in local painting is often portrayed as a medium for the ideas of Barnett Newman, whom he had met and workshopped with at Emma Lake in 1957.
But accounts of Kiyooka's pedagogy reveal that he was effective . . .
