Engendering an avant-garde : the unsettled landscapes of Vancouver photo-conceptualism /
Engendering an avant-garde is the first book to comprehensively examine the origins of Vancouver photo-conceptualism in its regional context between 1968 and 1990. Employing discourse analysis of texts written by and about artists, feminist critique and settler-colonial theory, the book discusses th...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Rethinking art's histories.
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| Summary: | Engendering an avant-garde is the first book to comprehensively examine the origins of Vancouver photo-conceptualism in its regional context between 1968 and 1990. Employing discourse analysis of texts written by and about artists, feminist critique and settler-colonial theory, the book discusses the historical transition from artists' creation of 'defeatured landscapes' between 1968-71 to their cinematographic photographs of the late 1970s and the backlash against such work by other artists in the late 1980s. It is the first study to provide a structural account for why the group remains all-male. It accomplishes this by demonstrating that the importation of a European discourse of avant-garde activity, which assumed masculine social privilege and public activity, effectively excluded women artists from membership. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-260) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781526101198 152610119X |