, 2008. Fibreglass stone and airplane. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Purchased 2011. Photo © Roman März](/images/content/menuSeeGallery.png)
Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe (Detail), 1770
oil on canvas
152.6 x 214.5 cm
Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921 (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, England, 1918)
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)
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Liz Magor
Canadian, 1948
newspaper, wood, steel
machine: 134.6 x 81.3 x 61 cm; paper bricks: 5.1 x 10.2 x 20.3 cm each
Purchased 1984
National Gallery of Canada (no. 28453)
Liz Magor’s imposing wall of newspaper bricks renders once newsworthy information illegible – aside from snippets of text and advertisements – at the same time as it memorializes it. A pulp-splattered machine positioned in front of the monumentally scaled wall reveals the artist’s repetitive actions of soaking, pulverizing, and compressing newspapers in moulds. On a cottage-industry scale, the installation refutes the idea of the artist as creator of unique objects through the production of an alternative building material that repurposes a widely available, disposable resource.
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