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1 online resource (ix, 215 pages) |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"It's about hoaxes in Canadian culture. It shows how some contemporary artists and writers disrupt the curatorial and authorial practices of Canada's most respected cultural institutions (art galleries, museums, publishers) in order to foment and celebrate discomfort, imagination, empathy, and change."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Little Disrupters -- Part One: A Novel in Three Dimensions: Iris Häussler's Historical Reconstruction at the Grange -- Iris Häussler's Historic Reconstruction at the Grange -- Haptic Conceptual Art -- The Museum Label's Pact -- Complicated Complicity: The Necessity of a Viewer -- Improvised Choreographies: The Role of the Tour Guides at the Grange -- With Open Eyes: Revising the Historical Tour -- Mistakenness and Disorientation: Responses to Iris Häussler's Hoax |
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(Pissing?) On the Museum's Authority -- Part Two: Unsettling Images: Decolonizing Ethnographies in the Artworks of Brian Jungen, Jeff Wall, and Rebecca Belmore -- Ethnography, Art, and Colonial Thinking -- Reverse Ethnography -- The Reverse Ethnography of Brian Jungen's Sketches Solicited for Wall Drawings -- The Near-Documentary Photography of Jeff Wall -- Unsettling Acts of Remembrance: Rebecca Belmore's Wild and Vigil -- Part Three: Imagining the Author: The Heteronyms of Fernando Pessoa, Erín Moure, and David Solway |
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The Heteronyms of Fernando Pessoa, Erín Moure, and David Solway What Is a Heteronym? -- Metaphoric Possibilities: Transelating the As If of a Portuguese Shepherd -- Collaborative Possibilities: The Interfering Theatrics of a Galician Theatre Director -- Critical Possibilities: A Greek Fisherman Suffering from the "Malady of Atwoodism" -- Translational Possibilities: (Dis)comforts of the Mother Tongue -- Conclusion: The Art of Stumbling -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Truthfulness and falsehood in art.
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Truthfulness and falsehood in art. |
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Hoaxes -- Canada.
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Hoaxes. |
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Canada. |
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Deception -- Canada.
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Deception. |
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Literary forgeries and mystifications.
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Literary forgeries and mystifications. |
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Tricksters.
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Tricksters. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jessup, Heather. This is not a hoax. Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2019 1771123648 9781771123648 (OCoLC)1027186952 |
| ISBN |
1771123656 (electronic book) |
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9781771123662 (electronic book) |
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1771123664 (electronic book) |
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9781771123655 (electronic book) |
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