Bruce Hugh Russell is a critic, historian, and curator born in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1952. He studied at the Vancouver School of Art and at Concordia University, Montreal.
Scope and content
The collection consists of nineteen colour photoprints, 10 x 15 cm, of scenes at Russell's Montreal residence, 1997, and the texts of two essays by Russell, "The Repression of Sodomy in Romanesque Monastic Art and Architecture." 51 pages, and "Robert Fludd and the Death Rattle of Humanist Cosmography," a lecture given at the National Gallery of Canada and the Vancouver Art Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition "The Ingenious Machine of Nature" [revised August 1, 1997], 15 pages with an appendix, "Robert Fludd: The Four Seasons of Humanity," 8 pages, and a photocopy of a published review of Russell's exhibition "Sala dell'Ermafrodito" at the Or Gallery, Vancouver, by Marilyn Burgess, in "Parachute" 87, 1996, and a photocopy of an article, "Photo collection part of Quebec's gay history," by Karen Unland, published in the "Globe and Mail," August 19, 1997.
