A Social History of Art and Public Art Education in Quebec: The 1960s

Abstract

This paper has been written within the context of a wider research project on contemporary art in the province of Quebec, Canada, in the 1960s. The article is the result of an interactive process between two researchers who are investigating the relationship between the field of contemporary art and public art education within the theoretical perspective of the social history of art. Our analysis particularly focuses on the consolidation of modernism and the importance of the societal debate on education which, at a precise historical conjuncture, questioned the place and the role of art in society.