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Engendering an avant-garde : the unsettled landscapes of Vancouver photo-conceptualism / Leah Modigliani.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resource (x, 279 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526126740
  • 9781526126733
  • 9781526135957
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • TR187 .E544 2018
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Contents:
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.
Subject: 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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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.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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