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

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TextSeries: Cultural studies series (Waterloo, Ont. : Online)Publication details: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

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9781554583119
155458311X
1554582571
9781554582570

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NX650.P6

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Contents:

""Â€œThe Named and the Unnamedâ€?: Gendering the Canadian Art Scene""""Borders in the City""; ""Crisis of Representation: Multiculturalism, Minquon Panchyat, and the â€œThe Lands Within Meâ€?""; ""Bread and Five-Ring Circuses: Art, Activism, and the Olympic Games in Vancouver and London""; ""Aboriginal Representation and the Canadian Art World""; ""APEC at the Museum of Anthropology: The Politics of Site and the Poetics of Sight Bite""; ""Culture Jamming""; ""Titanium Motherships of the New Economy: Museums, Neoliberalism, and Resistance""; ""Anarchy""

""Behind the Mask/I Am the Other: Solidarity and Struggle in The Fourth World War""""Gentrification""; ""Toward a Conclusion: A Focus on the Visual Culture of Activism""; ""Bibliography""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""; ""Back Ccover""

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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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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