Kent Monkman: shame and prejudice : a story of resilience = Kent Monkman: honte et préjugés : une histoire de résilience.
Artist Kent Monkman's all-encompassing project, Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience, takes viewers on a journey through Canada's history, starting in the present and going back before Canadian confederation. Throughout the book there are clever albeit controversial commentaries told...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French Cree |
| Language Notes: | Parallel text in English, French, and Cree. |
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Toronto, ON : London, United Kingdom :
Art Museum, University of Toronto ; Black Dog Press,
2020.
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| Summary: | Artist Kent Monkman's all-encompassing project, Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience, takes viewers on a journey through Canada's history, starting in the present and going back before Canadian confederation. Throughout the book there are clever albeit controversial commentaries told by Monkman's genderfluid, time-travelling, supernatural alter-ego Miss ChiefEagle Testickle. Her narratives takes viewers through the history of New France and the fur trade, the nineteenth-century dispossession of Indigenous lands through Canadian colonial policies, the horrors of the residential school system, and modern Indigenous experiences in urban environments. Shame and Prejudice challenges predominant narratives of Canadian history andhonours the resilience of Indigenous peoples. This book accompanies Monkman's largest solo exhibition to date, which is currently travelling across Canada at venues including the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the GlenbowMuseum in Calgary, and the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver. The exhibition includes the artist's own paintings, drawings, and sculptural works, which form a dialogue with historical artefacts and artworks borrowed from museums and private collections across Canada. The book is trilingual with all text in English, French and Cree. |
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| Item Description: | Published in conjuction with the exhibition "Shame and prejudice : a story of resilience by Kent Monkman", Art Museum at the University of Toronto, January 26-March 5, 2017. Parallel title also appears in Cree script. |
| Physical Description: | 271 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781912165261 1912165260 |