Modigliani Engendering an avant-garde

The unsettled landscapes of Vancouver photo-conceptualism
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2673-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Modigliani, Leah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Fotografie: Geschichte und Sammlungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1 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 modernism
3 Myth and the ‘home culture concept’
4 Establishing the theory and practice of a defeatured landscape
5 1970s and the gendered spaces of the counter tradition
6 Feminist theoretical and visual challenges to modernist representation
Conclusion
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Leah Modigliani is Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at Tyler School of Art at Temple University