{"id":65,"date":"2007-07-29T14:09:35","date_gmt":"2007-07-29T18:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/131.104.99.27\/speare\/?p=65"},"modified":"2015-06-03T00:15:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T04:15:35","slug":"8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vsmic.canadianshakespeares.ca\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary Portraiture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/vsmic.canadianshakespeares.ca\/?page_id=259\"><img src='http:\/\/vsmic.canadianshakespeares.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/contemp_banner2.jpg' alt='Contemporary Gallery Banner' \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Finding the Bard in Contemporary Portraiture<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">This gallery examines Shakespearean portraiture in contemporary Canadian visual arts. Of the sixteen pieces, five were commissioned specifically with Shakespearean adaptation in mind&#8211;many of the other images adapt Shakespeare via allusion and subtle quotation. The visible Shakespearean referents in the varied media, however, regardless of the artists&#8217; intentionality, attest to the ways in which Shakespearean characters and story-lines permeate Canadian culture. The myriad Shakespearean representations and the manner and medium in which they are demonstrated&#8211;using food materials, papier m\u00c3\u00a2ch\u00c3\u00a9, painting, photography, found objects&#8211;testifies to the inventiveness of visual adaptations of Shakespeare in Canada, even as it puts to the question any notion of what the designation &#8220;portrait&#8221; actually means as a referent for an authentic experience of the figure represented by the portrait.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding the Bard in Contemporary Portraiture<br \/>\nThis gallery examines Shakespearean portraiture in contemporary Canadian visual arts. Of the sixteen pieces, five were commissioned specifically with Shakespearean adaptation in mind&#8211;many of the other images adapt Shakespeare via allusion and subtle quotation. The visible Shakespearean referents in the varied media, however, regardless of the artists&#8217; intentionality, attest to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vsmic.canadianshakespeares.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vsmic.canadianshakespeares.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vsmic.canadianshakespeares.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vsmic.canadianshakespeares.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vsmic.canadianshakespeares.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vsmic.canadianshakespeares.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vsmic.canadianshakespeares.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vsmic.canadianshakespeares.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vsmic.canadianshakespeares.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}