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Quebec: A Painting by Adam Miller Quebec A Painting by Adam Miller Published for Editions Salvatore Guerrera by McGill-Queen’s University Press Montreal & Kingston • London • Chicago © McGill-Queen’s University Press2017 isbn978-0-7735-5164-0(cloth) isbn978-0-7735-5270-8(epdf) Legal deposit fourth quarter 2017 Bibliothèque nationale du Québec Printed in Canada on acid-free paper We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country. Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 153millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Quebec (Montréal, Québec) Quebec : a painting by Adam Miller. Includes bibliographical references. Issued in print and electronic formats. isbn978-0-7735-5164-0(hardcover).–isbn978-0-7735-5270-8(epdf) 1. Miller, Adam, 1979–. Quebec. I. Title. nd237.m55a68 2017 759.13 c2017-906158-5 c2017-906159-3 I dedicate this publication and artwork To my entire family My mother Anna Mancini My late father Giovanni Guerrera My mother-in-law Yvette Leclair My late father-in-law Charles Proulx My daughter Vanessa My son Jonathan and daughter-in-law Fojan My two granddaughters Stella and Audrina My sister Gina and family My brother-in-law Richard and family And to the love of my life my dear wife Diane A gift, a story Salvatore Guerrera Contents ix Preface Salvatore Guerrera 3 Note on Adam Miller and the Painting of History François-Marc Gagnon 13 A History of Quebec in the Shadow of the Quiet Revolution Alexandre Turgeon 25 The New Objectivism Donald Kuspit 40 Interview with Adam Miller Clarence Epstein 59 Contributors Preface Salvatore Guerrera The year 2017marks many important milestones in the history of Canada. Our country is 150years old. We are marking 225 years of parliamentary institutions in Quebec. Montreal is celebrating its 375th anniversary. Fifty years ago, the whole world was converging in Montreal for Expo 67. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was adopted thirty-five years ago. All of these events have helped to build Canada as we know it. My intention through commissioning this painting from Adam Miller is for all Canadians to better appreciate Quebec’s immense contribution to the core identity of our country. My father arrived by ship in Halifax in 1952, my mother the following year, and they settled in Montreal. This was the com- mon route for many Italian immigrants making their way to Canada. I was born in 1955, the first of two children. Growing up in postwar Quebec, we maintained the core values of a
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