Engendering an Avant-Garde : The Unsettled Landscapes of Vancouver Photo-Conceptualism
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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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- ISBN-13: 9781526182494
- ISBN-10: 1526182491
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publish Date: December 2024
- Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.79 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.9 pounds
- Page Count: 296
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