Leah Modigliani

Engendering an avant-garde (eBook, ePUB)

The unsettled landscapes of Vancouver photo-conceptualism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526126740
• Artikelnr.: 57471674

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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