Engendering an Avant-Garde: The Unsettled Landscapes of Vancouver Photo-Conceptualism

by Leah Modigliani

Engendering an avant-garde is the first book to comprehensively examine the origins of Vancouver photo-conceptualism in its regional context between 1968 and 1990. Employing discourse analysis of texts written by and about artists, feminist critique and settler-colonial theory, the book discusses the historical transition from artists' creation of 'defeatured landscapes' between 1968-71 to their cinematographic photographs of the late 1970s and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 152610119X
• ISBN13: 9781526101198
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"