Journal of the Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC)

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Cover: Abbas Akhavan, Fatigues, 2014. Courtesy of the artist and Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography.

Current Issue
51, no. 1 (Spring 2026)

CONTENTS

Editors' Note
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UAAC Awards
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Articles​

• Joana Joachim | Total Inversion: Black Studies in Canadian Art History Joana Joachim
• Kayla Miller | Hindu Presence in Canadian Modernism: Lawren Harris and the Bhagavad Gītā
• Gabrielle Moser | The Problem with Stairs: Shame and Reparative Ensnarement in the Work of Abbas Akhavan and jes sachse
• Janneke Van Hoeve | The Strategic Making of a National Collection: Rethinking the Canada Council Art Bank’s Institutional History
• Colin Young | Totems and Tourism: Rereading Emily Carr’s “Lost Years” Through the Model Totem Pole

2025 UAAC Conference Graduate Student Essay Award

• M. Gnanasihamany | Seeing Through Carceral Geographies: Translucence as Abolitionist Aesthetic Method 

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Polemics
“Neither Artificial nor Intelligent”: Critical Approaches to GenAI in the Art History and Visual Art Classroom 
Guest editors: Erin J. Campbell and Catherine Harding

• Erin J. Campbell and Catherine Harding | “Neither Artificial nor Intelligent”: Critical Approaches to GenAI in the Art History and Visual Art Classroom 
• Erin J. Campbell | Surviving (and Even Thriving) in the GenAI Era
• Samantha Chang | What Generative AI Reveals About Art History Pedagogy
• Twyla Exner | Contradictions and Curiosities: Navigating Critical-Creative Engagement with GenAI in the Studio Classroom

Practices
Creative Visions of the Land 
Guest editors: Susan Cahill and Erin Sutherland

• Susan Cahill and Erin Sutherland | Creative Visions of the Land
• Zachary Ayotte, Christina Battle, Brennan Black, and April Dean | Terraforming Earth: A Year of Thinking Through
• Namaakii Bee Bear Hat | Writing for Land
• Skye Haggerty | Creating Visions of the Land to Unsettle Pioneer Displays (Or, the Day the Stones Flew Away)

Lawren S. Harris, Abstract (War Painting), 1943. Oil on canvas, 107 × 77 cm. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid. Courtesy of Art Museum at the University of Toronto.

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Charlie James, model totem pole, ca. 1920. Carved and polychrome painted cedar, 63.5 × 29.8 cm. Richmojoe Gallery, Vancouver, BC. Photo: Richmojoe Gallery.

Reviews

• Siobhan Angus | Martha Langford, A History of Photography in Canada, Volume 1: Anticipation to Participation, 1839–1918 
• Vanessa Bateman | Isabelle Gapp, A Circumpolar Landscape: Art and Environment in Scandinavia and North America, 1890–1930 
• Marjorie Charbonneau | Marie Antoinette Style, Victoria & Albert Museum 
• Mark Cheetham | Joseph Leo Koerner, Art in a State of Siege 
• Mitchell B. Frank | Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde, exh. cat; Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts 
• Karla McManus | Bergit Arends, Photography, Ecology and Historical Change in the Anthropocene: Activating Archives 
• Marie-Lise Poirier | Kathryn Desplanque, Inglorious Artists: Art-World Satire and the Emergence of a Capitalist Art Market in Paris, 1750–1850 
• Alena Robin | Marina Dumont-Gauthier, Recuerdo: Latin American Photography at the AGO 
• Trevor Stark | Okwui Enwezor, Selected Writings: Volume 1, Toward a New African Art Discourse, ed. Terry Smith; Okwui Enwezor, Selected Writings: Volume 2, Curating the Postcolonial Condition, ed. Terry Smith 

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