Monika Kin Gagnon
Monika Kin Gagnon is Professor of Communication Studies at Concordia University. She has published widely on cultural politics and the visual and media arts since the 1980s. She is the author of Other Conundrums: Race, Culture, and Canadian Art, and co-editor of the anthology Reimagining Cinema: Film at Expo 67.
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Dana Claxton
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Hardcover
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Indigenous Canadian; First Nations; Sioux; Lakota; Hunkpapa;
ISBN / Barcode: 9781773270500
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Known for her expansive multidisciplinary approach to art making Vancouver-based Dana Claxton, who is Hunkpapa Lakota (Sioux), has investigated notions of Indigenous identity, beauty, gender and the body, as well as broader social and political issues through a practice which encompasses photography, film, video and performance. Rooted in contemporary art strategies, her practice critiques the representations of Indigenous people that circulate in art, literature and popular culture in general. In doing so, Claxton regularly combines Lakota traditions with "Western" influences, using a powerful and emotive "mix, meld and mash" approach to address the oppressive legacies of colonialism and to articulate Indigenous world views, histories and spirituality. This timely catalogue is the first monograph to examine the full breadth and scope of Claxton's practice. It's extensively illustrated and includes essays by Claxton's colleague Jaleh Mansoor, Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory at the University of British Columbia; Monika Kin Gagnon, Professor in the Communications Department at Concordia University, who has followed Claxton's work for 25 years; Olivia Michiko Gagnon, a New York-based scholar and doctoral student in Performance Studies; and Grant Arnold, Audain Curator of British Columbia Art at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
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160 pages | 9.08" x 10.60"
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