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Title Imagining resistance : visual culture and activism in Canada / J. Keri Cronin and Kirsty Robertson, editors.

Publication Info. Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Cultural studies series
Cultural studies series (Waterloo, Ont. : Online)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canadaoffers two separate but interconnected strategies for reading alternative culture in Canada from the 1940s through to the present: first, a history of radical artistic practice in Canada and, second, a collection of eleven essays that focus on a range of institutions, artists, events, and actions. The history of radical practice is spread through the book in a series of short interventions, ranging from the Refus globalto anarchist-inspired art, and from Aboriginal curatorial interventions to culture jamming. In each, the historical record is mined to rewrite and reverse Canadian art historyreworked here to illuminate the series of oppositional artistic endeavours that are often mentioned in discussions of Canadian art but rarely acknowledged as having an alternative history of their own. Alongside, authors consider case studies as diverse as the anti-war work done by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in Montreal and Toronto, recent exhibitions of activist art in Canadian institutions, radical films, performance art, protests against the Olympics, interventions into anti-immigrant sentiment in Montreal, and work by Iroquois photographer Jeff Thomas. Taken together, the writings in Imagining Resistancetouch on the local, the global, the national, and post-national to imagine a very different landscape of cultural practice in Canada.
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Subject Art -- Political aspects -- Canada.
Art -- Political aspects.
Canada.
Politics in art.
Politics in art.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Cronin, J. Keri (Jennifer Keri), 1973-
Robertson, Kirsty, 1976-
Other Form: Print version: Imagining resistance. Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010 9781554582570 1554582571 (OCoLC)657199289
ISBN 9781554583119 (electronic book)
155458311X (electronic book)
1554582571
9781554582570
9781554582570
1554582571
Standard No. 9781554582570