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Engendering an avant-garde The unsettled landscapes of Vancouver photo-conceptualism
Title
Engendering an avant-garde [electronic resource] : The unsettled landscapes of Vancouver photo-conceptualism / Leah Modigliani.
ISBN
1526126737
9781526126733
1526126745
1526135957
9781526126740
9781526135957
Published
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 279 pages))
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Summary
A comprehensive examination of the origins of Vancouver photo-conceptualism. The book employs discourse analysis, feminist critique and settler-colonial theory to analyse the landscapes of Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Marian Penner Bancroft, Liz Magor and others.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 15, 2020
Series
Rethinking art's histories
Contents
Jeff Wall's Picture for Women (1979) and The Destroyed Room (1978): colonizing the space of gendered discourse
Emily Carr and the legacy of Commonwealth modernism
Myth and the 'home culture concept'
Establishing the theory and practice of a defeatured landscape
1970s and the gendered spaces of the counter tradition
Feminist theoretical and visual challenges to modernist representation
Conclusion.
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