| Engendering an Avant-Garde: The Unsettled Landscapes of Vancouver Photo-Conceptualism Contributor(s): Modigliani, Leah (Author) |
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ISBN: 152610119X ISBN-13: 9781526101198 Publisher: Manchester University Press OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - General - Photography | Criticism |
| Series: Rethinking Art's Histories |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (1.63 lbs) 296 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Engendering an avant-garde is the first book to comprehensively examine the origins of Vancouver photo-conceptualism in its regional context between 1968 and 1990. Employing discourse analysis of texts written by and about artists, feminist critique and settler-colonial theory, the book discusses the historical transition from artists' creation of 'defeatured landscapes' between 1968-71 to their cinematographic photographs of the late 1970s and the backlash against such work by other artists in the late 1980s. It is the first study to provide a structural account for why the group remains all-male. It accomplishes this by demonstrating that the importation of a European discourse of avant-garde activity, which assumed masculine social privilege and public activity, effectively excluded women artists from membership. |