About the Authors

Loren Lerner

Loren Lerner is professor emerita of the Department of Art History, Concordia University. She was contributing editor of Depicting Canada’s Children (2009) and Afterimage: Evocations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Canadian Arts and Literature (2002); editor of Canadian Film and Video: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature Film et video canadiens: bibliographie et guide de la documentation (1997, print and eBook) and co-editor of Art and Architecture in Canada: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature/ Art et architecture au Canada: bibliographie et guide de la documentation (1991, print and eBook). Selected publications include: « François-Marc Gagnon et ses publications » (2021); “George Agnew Reid’s Paintings in Relation to English Canadian Collective Memories of Rural Childhood in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Canada” (2019); “Youth and Sunlight: Reflections of Childhood” (2019); and “The Manipulation of Indigenous Imagery to Represent Canadian Childhood and Nationhood in 19th Century Canada” (2018). Lerner taught undergraduate courses focusing on 19th century art: “ARTH 366 Aspects of 19th Century Western Art and Architecture: The Changing Idea of the Avant-Garde in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Painting,” “ARTH 262 Studies in Drawing: The Creative Drawing from the 19th Century to the Present Day” and “ARTH 298 Special Topics in Genre Studies: The Human Face.”

Karine Antaki

Karine Antaki is an art historian and independent curator and art consultant. She was the former Director/Curator of the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery at Concordia University, Director and Canadian Art Specialist at Heffel Fine Art Montreal, and Program Director and Instructor at Centennial College. She has curated numerous Canadian art exhibitions, including Flight: Gabriella Kardos; Massimo Guerrera Porus; Between Body and Soul with David Liss; Les mystères objectifs. Remembering le refus global; Spring Hurlbut: L’ascension; Tony Scherman: Les Funérailles de Banquo; Ordinary Magic: Aspects of Ritual in Contemporary Art; Joanne Tod: The (dis) Order of Things; Temporal Borders: Image & Site; Montréal Women Artists of the 1950’s; and Emily Coonan (1885 -1971). CEGEP courses taught in the disciplines of art history, cultural studies and film studies include “Twentieth Century Art and Culture: A Global View,” “Contemporary Canadian Cinema and Television,” “Art and Communications,” “Art and Culture in Canada,” “Contemporary Quebec Art,” and “The Mix: Art and History in Studio.”

      Contributors

Authors

The creation of this OER suited to visual studies is a direct result of the years of pedagogical practice and dedication to the discipline of art history by Loren Lerner, an art historian much beloved by decades of students who have passed through Concordia University’s Department of Art History. It is equally the result of Lerner’s collaboration with curator Karine Antaki as the book’s co-author and designer. Her design and art historical background and her collaboration with librarians and students to implement the resulting web design contributed significantly to the realization of the project.

Students

Concordia University’s Open Educational Resources program run through the Library made this open textbook project possible. As successful Create Grant recipients, the authors, Loren Lerner and Karine Antaki, with the backing of Cynthia Hammond, Professor, Department of Art History, worked closely with Concordia’s students in the Art History program. Through the Create Grant, students August Fallone, Emma Dye, Louis-Philippe Savard, and Elliot Mann produced image citations for the public domain images, bibliographic citations for an extensive bibliography of online and print resources, biographical sketches and artist video vignettes on YouTube. Special thanks go to Elliot Mann for his extensive work, integrating the images, their citations, and alt text into Pressbooks in accordance with the open textbook’s design protocols.

Librarians

We are also deeply grateful for the support of Rachel Harris, Scholarly Publishing Librarian, who leads Concordia’s OER program. As a researcher who focuses on the intersections between art history and book history, she recognized the importance of this project’s value as an accessible open textbook at its inception. Harris offered extensive consultations to support the project from the beginning to its launch. Her understanding of the evolving design needs, facilitation of workflows, and co-development of solutions in collaboration with library colleagues contributed to a well-designed accessible book with text-image pairings in Pressbooks. We are grateful to Pamela Carson, Web Services Librarian, for her expertise in testing and finding the limits within Pressbooks and co-finding solutions to fulfill the designer’s intent. With her skills in web design and accessibility standards, Carson developed a way forward with  CSS and HTML templates for the customization needs of the project, and offered mentorship for their implementation.

      Acknowledgements

We thank students Ava Fallone, Emma Dye, Louis-Philippe Savard, Elliot Mann, and librarians Rachel Harris and Pamela Carson for their pivotal contributions. We also thank Dr. Cynthia Hammond, Professor of Art History at Concordia University, for recognizing the value of this e-publication for the study of nineteenth-century art and for making it possible for us to receive a substantial grant from Concordia University Libraries.