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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| 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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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / by Kent Monkman
- Shame and prejudice : a story of resilience : excerpts from the memoir of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: New France, reign of the beaver ; Father of Confederation ; Wards of the state/the Indian problem ; Starvation ; Forcibile transfer of children ; Incarceration ; The res house ; Sickness and healing ; Urban rez
- A Confederation Day visit to the studio of Miss Chief / by Richard William Hill
- Dashed hopes and beauty : the urban rez paintings / by Lucy R. Lippard
- Art as the disciplinarian of mythology / by John Ralston Saul
- Afterword: Contending with history... in the art museum / by Barbara Fischer.