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Moving the Museum documents the reopening of the J. S. McLean
Centre for Indigenous & Canadian Art with a renewed focus on
the AGO's Indigenous art collection. The volume reflects the
nation-to-nation treaty relationship that is the foundation of
Canada, asking questions, discovering truths, and leading
conversations that address the weight of history and colonialism.
Lavishly illustrated with more than 100 reproductions, Moving the
Museum: Indigenous + Canadian Art at the AGO features the work of
First Nations artists -- including Carl Beam, Rebecca Belmore, and
Kent Monkman -- along with work by Inuit artists like Shuvinai
Ashoona and Annie Pootoogook. Canadian artists include Lawren
Harris, Kazuo Nakamura, Joyce Wieland, and many others. Drawing
from stories about our origins and identities, the featured artists
and essayists invite readers to engage with issues of land, water,
transformation, and sovereignty and to contemplate the historic and
future representation of Indigenous and Canadian art in museums.
A new look at the art of one of the most charming and idiosyncratic
personalities of early 20th-century New York Florine Stettheimer
(1871-1944) was a New York original: a society lady who hosted an
avant-garde salon in her Manhattan home, a bohemian and a flapper,
a poet, a theater designer, and above all an influential painter
with a sharp satirical wit. Stettheimer collaborated with Gertrude
Stein and Virgil Thomson, befriended (and took French lessons from)
Marcel Duchamp, and was a member of Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia
O'Keeffe's artistic and intellectual circle. Beautifully
illustrated with 150 color images, including the majority of the
artist's extant paintings, as well as drawings, theater designs,
and ephemera, this volume also highlights Stettheimer's poetry and
gives her a long overdue critical reassessment. The essays
published here-as well as a roundtable discussion by seven leading
contemporary female artists-overturn the traditional perception of
Stettheimer as an artist of mere novelties. Her work is linked not
only to American modernism and the New York bohemian scene before
World War II but also to a range of art practices active today.
Flamboyant and epicurean, she was an astute documenter of New York
and parodist of her social milieu; her highly decorative scenes
borrowed from Surrealism and contributed to the beginnings of a
feminist aesthetic. Published in association with the Jewish
Museum, New York, and the Art Gallery of Ontario Exhibition
Schedule: The Jewish Museum, New York (05/05/17-09/24/17) Art
Gallery of Ontario (10/21/17-01/28/18)
Two generations of Inuit artists challenging the parameters of
tradition.Kenojuak Ashevak shot to fame in 1970 when Canada Post
printed The Enchanted Owl,a print of a black-and-red plumed
nocturnal bird, on a postage stamp. She later became known as the
magic-marker-wielding "grandmother of Inuit art," famous for her
fluid graphic storytelling and her stunning depictions of wildlife.
She was a defining figure in Inuit art and one of the first
Indigenous artists to be embraced as a contemporary Canadian
artist.Ashevak's legacy inspired her nephew, Timootee (Tim)
Pitsiulak, to take up drawing at the Kinngait Studios. In his
relatively short career, he became a popular figure, known for
drawing animal figures with a hunter's precision and capturing the
technological presence of the South in Nunavut.Tunirrusiangit,
"their gifts" or "what they gave" in Inuktitut, celebrates the
achievements of two remarkable artists who challenged the
parameters of tradition while consistently articulating a
compelling vision of the Inuit world view. Published to coincide
with a major exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario, opening on
16 June and continuing until late August, Tunirrusiangit features
more than 60 reproductions of paintings, drawings, and documentary
photographs. Completing the book are essays by contemporary artists
and curators Jocelyn Piirainen, Anna Hudson, Georgiana Uhlyarik,
Koomuatuk Curley, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, and Taqralik
Partridge that address both the past and future of Inuit identity.
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Introducing Suzy Lake (Hardcover)
Georgiana Uhlyarik; Contributions by Sophie Hackett, Anouchka Freybe, Lorraine O'Grady, Leslie Johnstone, …
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Influenced by artists such as Cindy Sherman, Lake's work
demonstrates the innovation and continued influence of the
'Feminist Avant-Garde' movement on contemporary art today. Lake's
work forms part of the public collection at the Albright Knox Art
Gallery, Buffalo, NY as well as within numerous museums and
galleries across Canada. Her work has been exhibited widely,
including in the US at Jack Shainman Gallery, New York; Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art; Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles;
National Museum of Women in Art, DC and Santa Monica Museum of Art,
California. This multi-author publication considers how Lake's
ideas and practice developed over time from her hometown of Detroit
to Montreal to Toronto, informed by the cultural character of each
city. Featuring celebrated works as well as newly commissioned
series, Introducing Suzy Lake reveals the richness and originality
of her accomplishments as one of North America's most influential
artists working today.
Exploring the experimental energy of an era,Toronto: Tributes +
Tributaries, 1971-1989brings together more than 100 works by 65
artists and collectives to highlight an innovative period in
Toronto art history. Amidst the social and political upheavals of
their time, the artists that emerged in Toronto during the 1970s
and 1980s pushed the boundaries of conventional painting,
sculpture, and photography, exploring new ways of art
making.Organized thematically and punctuated by references to
Toronto and its cityscape, this unique publication highlights the
era's preoccupation with ideas of performance, the body, the image,
self-portraiture, storytelling, and representation. Featured
artists include Michael Snow, Joanne Tod, the Clichettes, Duke
Redbird, Barbara Astman, Robin Collyer, Robert Houle, Carol CondA
(c), and Carl Beveridge, as well as photographer June Clarke,
illustrator Ato Seitu, dub poet Lillian Allen, and many others.
Critically acclaimed Rita Letendre is one of the most eminent
living abstract artists. Her painting career began in Montreal in
the 1950s, when she associated with Quebec's Automatistes and
Plasticiens. Often the sole female artist in their group shows, she
broke away from their approach to painting. Seeking to express the
full energy of life and harness in her powerful gestures an intense
spiritual force, Letendre worked with oils, pastels, and acrylics,
using her hands, palette knife, brushes and uniquely the
airbrush.Born of Abenaki and Quebecois parents, Letendre lived in
Quebec until 1969, when she moved to Toronto. She has received the
Order of Canada, completed commissions across Canada and the United
States, and participated in national and international exhibitions.
Rita Letendre: Fire & Light features thirty large-scale
paintings and an essay by Wanda Nanibush, curator of Canadian and
Indigenous Art at the AGO.
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