Engendering an avant-garde : the unsettled landscapes of Vancouver photo-conceptualism /
Modigliani, Leah, 1970-
Engendering an avant-garde : the unsettled landscapes of Vancouver photo-conceptualism / Leah Modigliani. - Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (x, 279 pages). - Rethinking art's histories .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Jeff Wall's Picture for Women (1979) and The Destroyed Room (1978): colonizing the space of gendered discourse -- Emily Carr and the legacy of Commonwealth modernism -- Myth and the 'home culture concept' -- Establishing the theory and practice of a defeatured landscape -- 1970s and the gendered spaces of the counter tradition -- Feminist theoretical and visual challenges to modernist representation -- Conclusion.
A comprehensive examination of the origins of Vancouver photo-conceptualism. The book employs discourse analysis, feminist critique and settler-colonial theory to analyse the landscapes of Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Marian Penner Bancroft, Liz Magor and others.
9781526126740 9781526126733 9781526135957
Photography--History--British Columbia--Vancouver--20th century.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History--British Columbia--Vancouver--20th century.
Photography, Artistic--Philosophy--20th century.
Photographic criticism.
Neo-geo (Art)
Photography, Artistic.
Electronic Books.
TR187 / .E544 2018
Engendering an avant-garde : the unsettled landscapes of Vancouver photo-conceptualism / Leah Modigliani. - Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (x, 279 pages). - Rethinking art's histories .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Jeff Wall's Picture for Women (1979) and The Destroyed Room (1978): colonizing the space of gendered discourse -- Emily Carr and the legacy of Commonwealth modernism -- Myth and the 'home culture concept' -- Establishing the theory and practice of a defeatured landscape -- 1970s and the gendered spaces of the counter tradition -- Feminist theoretical and visual challenges to modernist representation -- Conclusion.
A comprehensive examination of the origins of Vancouver photo-conceptualism. The book employs discourse analysis, feminist critique and settler-colonial theory to analyse the landscapes of Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Marian Penner Bancroft, Liz Magor and others.
9781526126740 9781526126733 9781526135957
Photography--History--British Columbia--Vancouver--20th century.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History--British Columbia--Vancouver--20th century.
Photography, Artistic--Philosophy--20th century.
Photographic criticism.
Neo-geo (Art)
Photography, Artistic.
Electronic Books.
TR187 / .E544 2018