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Yes, but is it art?. Ever since he set up shop at Toronto's International Sculpture Symposium in High Park sculptor Armand Vaillancourt has had more t(...)
Yes, but is it art?. Ever since he set up shop at Toronto's International Sculpture Symposium in High Park sculptor Armand Vaillancourt has had more t(...)

Yes, but is it art?. Ever since he set up shop at Toronto's International Sculpture Symposium in High Park sculptor Armand Vaillancourt has had more t(...)

Date7/18/1967
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Original Toronto Star caption: Yes, but is it art?. Ever since he set up shop at Toronto's International Sculpture Symposium in High Park sculptor Armand Vaillancourt has had more than his share of attention. Visitors keep wandering around this towering structure making comments and guessing at what it represents.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0087277F
$100,000 Junk pile: Sculptor Armand Vaillancourt created a controversial $100,000 masterpiece for the city's Sculpture Symposium-then left before putting it together
$100,000 Junk pile: Sculptor Armand Vaillancourt created a controversial $100,000 masterpiece for the city's Sculpture Symposium-then left before putting it together
5/20/1968
Armand Vaillancourt, the bushy-faced Montreal artist, is up to his knees in mud and unfinished sculpture in High Park
Armand Vaillancourt, the bushy-faced Montreal artist, is up to his knees in mud and unfinished sculpture in High Park
12/13/1967
Sculptors Armand Vaillancourt, Bernard Schottlander, Wessel Couzyn, Frank Gallo, William Koochin, Hubert Dalwood, Menashe Kadishman in high park
Sculptors Armand Vaillancourt, Bernard Schottlander, Wessel Couzyn, Frank Gallo, William Koochin, Hubert Dalwood, Menashe Kadishman in high park
7/6/1967
High up in high park. Artistic heights of the first completed work in Toronto International Sculpture Symposium provide a 15-foot jump for Norman Jurc(...)
High up in high park. Artistic heights of the first completed work in Toronto International Sculpture Symposium provide a 15-foot jump for Norman Jurc(...)
8/10/1967
All stacked up in a neat-if not particularly artistic-pile, Montreal sculptor Armand Vaillancourt's $100,000 cast iron masterpiece rests beside chain (...)
All stacked up in a neat-if not particularly artistic-pile, Montreal sculptor Armand Vaillancourt's $100,000 cast iron masterpiece rests beside chain (...)
8/14/1968
His rusting masterpiece will be entitled Je me souviens - meaning I remember - sculptor Armand Vaillancourt said yesterday as he stood among the piece(...)
His rusting masterpiece will be entitled Je me souviens - meaning I remember - sculptor Armand Vaillancourt said yesterday as he stood among the piece(...)
5/20/1968
Armand Vaillancourt Vaillancourt, sculptor with a passion
Armand Vaillancourt Vaillancourt, sculptor with a passion
4/21/1967
Sculptor Armand Vaillancourt and blast furnace
Sculptor Armand Vaillancourt and blast furnace
8/31/1967
Unfinished sculpture by Montreal's Armand Vaillancourt sits beside the blast furnace used for melting down metal for the work. Toronto Board of Contro(...)
Unfinished sculpture by Montreal's Armand Vaillancourt sits beside the blast furnace used for melting down metal for the work. Toronto Board of Contro(...)
11/16/1967
Armand Vaillancourt. Born in Montreal, 1932. Exhibited in the United States at Expo, Montreal and Toronto International airports
Armand Vaillancourt. Born in Montreal, 1932. Exhibited in the United States at Expo, Montreal and Toronto International airports
7/7/1967
Novelist Max Ehrlich says that ever since he was a child he has dreamed he was on a street with all the shop signs in oriental characters. He walked t(...)
Novelist Max Ehrlich says that ever since he was a child he has dreamed he was on a street with all the shop signs in oriental characters. He walked t(...)
3/24/1975
Yes! Guitarist Steve Howe and lead singer Jon Anderson of British art rock group Yes had the crowd with them at SkyDome last night
Yes! Guitarist Steve Howe and lead singer Jon Anderson of British art rock group Yes had the crowd with them at SkyDome last night
4/23/1991