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Vikky Alexander - Extreme Beauty (Hardcover)
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Shortly after graduating from Nova Scotia College of Art and
Design, Vikky Alexander made her 1983 entry into the international
art world while living in New York by participating in photo
historian Abigail Solomon Godeau’s exhibition The Stolen Image
and its Uses. For over a decade she was active in a circle of New
York artists that merged the critical ideas of Minimalism and
Conceptual Art with photography, and came to be known as the
Pictures Generation. Since then she has continued to explore the
appropriated image through her own photography, especially in
relation to iconic representations of nature as well as the spaces
of consumerism—two subjects that remain significant in today’s
cultural discourses. This book, which accompanies an exhibition at
the Vancouver Art Gallery, is a beautifully illustrated
retrospective of nearly four decades of Alexander’s work. Since
the 1980s, Alexander has made numerous series of photographs,
montages, sculptures, collages and installations, all working to
hone a vision that captures the spectacle and inherent falseness of
certain public and private spaces. From the exaggerated
architecture of Versailles, Disneyland and the West Edmonton Mall,
to the use of idyllic “natural” settings and the skin-deep
beauty of fashion models, she unravels the mechanisms of display
that shape meaning and desire in our culture.
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