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Author Modigliani, Leah, 1970- author.

Title Engendering an avant-garde : the unsettled landscapes of Vancouver photo-conceptualism / Leah Modigliani.

Publication Info. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 279 pages).
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Series Rethinking art's histories
Rethinking art's histories.
Contents Jeff Wall's Picture for Women (1979) and The Destroyed Room (1978): colonizing the space of gendered discourse -- Emily Carr and the legacy of Commonwealth modernism -- Myth and the 'home culture concept' -- Establishing the theory and practice of a defeatured landscape -- 1970s and the gendered spaces of the counter tradition -- Feminist theoretical and visual challenges to modernist representation -- Conclusion.
Summary 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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Photography -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- History -- 20th century.
Photography.
British Columbia -- Vancouver.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- History -- 20th century.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Photography, Artistic -- Philosophy -- 20th century.
Photography, Artistic -- Philosophy.
Photography, Artistic.
Photographic criticism.
Photographic criticism.
Neo-geo (Art)
Neo-geo (Art)
Photography, Artistic.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: 9781526101198
ISBN 9781526126740 (electronic book)
1526126745 (electronic book)
9781526126733 (electronic book)
1526126737 (electronic book)
9781526135957
1526135957
9781526101198 (hardback)
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