Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2011.

Description:

x, 281 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Series:

Cultural studies series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-270) and index.
Imagining resistance : an introduction / Kirsty Robertson and J. Keri Cronin -- Refus global. Speaking pie to power : can we resist the historic compromise to neoliberal art? / Gregory Sholette -- Canadian artists' representation and copyright. John and Yoko's media war for peace / Louis Kaplan -- Carol Condé and Karl Beveridge : a living culture needs a living wage. Monumental interventions : Jeff Thomas seizes commemorative space / Claudette Lauzon -- General idea and AIDS. Resistant performers and engageded/ing public(s) / Jessica Wyman -- "The named and the unnamed" : gendering the Canadian art scene. Borders in the city / Ayesha Hameed -- Crisis of representation : multiculturalism, Minquon Panchyat, and "the lands within me". Bread and five-ring circuses : art, activism, and the Olympic Games in Vancouver and London / Kirsten Forkert -- Aboriginal representation and the Candian art world. APEC at the Museum of Anthropology : the politics of site and the poetics of sight bite / Ruth B. Phillips -- Culture jamming. Titanium motherships of the new economy : museums, neoliberalism, and resistance / Kirsty Robertson -- Anarchy. Behind the mask/I am the other : solidarity and struggle in the Fourth World War / David Jefferess -- Gentrification. Toward a conclusions : a focus on the visual culture of activism / J. Keri Cronin.
Also available in electronic format.

Summary:

Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada offers 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 global to anarchist inspired art, and from Aboriginal curatorial interventions to culture jamming. In each, the historical record is mined to rewrite and reverse Canadian art history, reworked 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. --Book Jacket.

ISBN:

9781554582570
1554582571
(PDF)
9781554583119
(EPUB)
9781554583478

Subject:

Art Political aspects Canada.
Politics in art.
Politics in art Case studies.
Art Aspect politique Canada.
Politique dans l'art Canada.
Politique dans l'art Canada Cas, Études de.
Politique dans l'art.
Politique dans l'art Études de cas.
Art Political aspects
Aktivismus
Kunst
Politik
Canada
Kanada

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Case studies
Études de cas.

Added entries:

Cronin, J. Keri (Jennifer Keri), 1973-
Robertson, Kirsty, 1976-
Cultural studies series (Waterloo, Ont.)

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 287166
Call No.: BIB 228027
Status: Available