Leah Modigliani

Engendering an avant-garde

The unsettled landscapes of Vancouver photo-conceptualism

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Produktbeschreibung

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. -- .

Produktdetails

• Rethinking Art's Histories
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 754g
• ISBN-13: 9781526101198
• ISBN-10: 152610119X
• Artikelnr.: 50257478

Autorenporträt

Leah Modigliani is Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at Tyler School of Art at Temple University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Jeff Wall's Picture for Women (1979) and The Destroyed Room
(1978): colonizing the space of gendered discourse 2 Emily Carr and the
legacy of Commonwealth modernism 3 Myth and the 'home culture concept' 4
Establishing the theory and practice of a defeatured landscape 5 1970s and
the gendered spaces of the counter tradition 6 Feminist theoretical and
visual challenges to modernist representation Conclusion Index