Engendering an avant-garde : the unsettled landscapes of Vancouver photo-conceptualism
Title:
Engendering an avant-garde : the unsettled landscapes of Vancouver photo-conceptualism
JLCTITLE245:
Leah Modigliani.
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Publication Information:
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 279 pages)
ISBN:
9781526126733
9781526126740
9781526135957
Series:
Abstract:
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.
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JSTOR
UAS/JPL: EBSCO Academic Subscription.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.