Engendering an avant-garde : the unsettled landscapes of Vancouver photo-conceptualism
by
Modigliani, Leah, 1970- author.
Title
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Engendering an avant-garde : the unsettled landscapes of Vancouver photo-conceptualism
Leah Modigliani.
Personal Author
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Modigliani, Leah, 1970- author.
Publication Information
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Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.
Physical Description
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1 online resource (x, 279 pages)
ISBN
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9781526126733
9781526126740
9781526135957
Series
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Rethinking art's histories
Abstract
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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.
Local Note
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JSTOR
UAS/JPL: EBSCO Academic Subscription.
Bibliography Note
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Term
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Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- History -- 20th century.
Neo-geo (Art)
Photographic criticism.
Photography, Artistic.
Photography, Artistic -- Philosophy -- 20th century.
Photography -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- History -- 20th century.
Contents
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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.
| Library | Call Number | Type | Status |
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| Electronic Resources | TR187 | eBook | Web subscription |
| Electronic Resources | TR187 | eBook | Web subscription |
| Electronic Resources | JSTOR - CLICK ON URL | eBook | Web subscription |