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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Monkman, Kent (writer of added textual content.)
Other Authors: Hill, Richard William, 1967- (writer of added textual content.), Lippard, Lucy R. (writer of added textual content.), Saul, John Ralston, 1947- (writer of added textual content.), Fischer, Barbara K., 1971- (writer of added textual content.)
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Cree
Language Notes:Parallel text in English, French, and Cree.
Published: 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.