Modigliani, Leah,  1970- <br/><br/>
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 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781526126740 9781526126733 9781526135957 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Photography--History--British Columbia--Vancouver--20th century.<br/>Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History--British Columbia--Vancouver--20th century.<br/>Photography, Artistic--Philosophy--20th century.<br/>Photographic criticism.<br/>Neo-geo (Art)<br/>Photography, Artistic.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TR187  / .E544 2018