Greg Curnoe’s "Dorval Mural” as a Critical Response to Expo 67 by Dr. Johanne Sloan

This article revisits Greg Curnoe’s Homage to the R-34 (1968) (the so-called “Dorval Mural,” made for Montreal’s airport), a monumental, thirty-metre long painting that was censored immediately after being installed. By emphasizing the horrors of war, past and present, the mural undermined Expo 67’s vision of global unity and transnational harmony. But Sloan also argues that Curnoe’s fusion of history and pop culture paid homage to the cultural logic of Quebec’s Ti-Pop movement.