Engendering an Avant-Garde - The Unsettled Landscapes of Vancouver Photo-Conceptualism

Informationen zum Autor Leah Modigliani is Associate Professor of Visual Studies at Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1 Jeff Wall's Picture for Women (1979) and The Destroyed Room (1978): colonizing the space of gendered discourse 2 Emily Carr and the legacy of Commonwealth modernism3 Myth and the 'home culture concept'4 Establishing the theory and practice of a defeatured landscape5 1970s and the gendered spaces of the counter tradition6 Feminist theoretical and visual challenges to modernist representationConclusionIndex

Product details

• Authors: Leah Modigliani
• Assisted by: Amelia Jones (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781526101198
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-0119-8
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Rethinking Art's Histories; Rethinking Arts Histories Mup; Rethinking Art's Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Photography & photographs, Avant-garde, ART / History / General, PHOTOGRAPHY / Criticism, History of Art, Gender studies: women, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Photography and photographs, Art & Design Styles: Conceptual Art, Conceptualism