Sonny Assu : a selective history /
Through large-scale installation, sculpture, photography, printmaking and painting, Sonny Assu merges the aesthetics of Indigenous iconography with a pop-art sensibility. This stunning retrospective spans over a decade of Assu's career, highlighting more than 120 full-color works, including sev...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
[2018]
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| Summary: | Through large-scale installation, sculpture, photography, printmaking and painting, Sonny Assu merges the aesthetics of Indigenous iconography with a pop-art sensibility. This stunning retrospective spans over a decade of Assu's career, highlighting more than 120 full-color works, including several never-before-exhibited pieces. Through analytical essays and personal narratives, Candice Hopkins, Marianne Nicolson, Richard Van Camp and Ellyn Walker provide brilliant commentary on Assu's practice, its meaning in the context of contemporary art, and its wider significance in the struggle for Indigenous cultural and political autonomy. Exploring themes of Indigenous rights, consumerism, branding, humor and the ways in which history informs contemporary ideas and identities, this is the first major full-scale book to pay tribute to this important, prolific and vibrant figure in the contemporary art world. |
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| Physical Description: | 221 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780295742113 0295742119 |