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By Fenlon, Iainc2007., Yale University Press Call No: 945.31 F334c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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-- From Trudeau to Trudeau :2017., Adult, Friesens Call No: GN 741.5 M911f Edition: ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When Terry Mosher first started drawing political cartoons, Canada was celebrating its 100th anniversary and on the cusp of "Trudeau-mania," which would see Pierre Elliot Trudeau become prime minister.Now, as Canada marks its 150th with Justin Trudeau at the helm, Mosher better known by his pen name Aislin is still rifling the feathers of the country's elites. The Montreal cartoonist's storied career is being honoured in Montreal at McCord Museum's retrospective show, Aislin: 50 Years of Cartoons, and also in his newest book, Trudeau to Trudeau: Aislin 50 Years of Cartooning.
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c2001., University of North Carolina Press Call No: 701.03 R789m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Bettie Allison Rand lectures in art history
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-- Four songs of care and constraint.2021., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: 323.44 N428o Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom's long star turn coming to a close? Does a continued obsession with the term enliven and emancipate, or reflect a deepening nihilism (or both)? 'On Freedom' examines such questions by tracing the concept's complexities in four distinct realms: art, sex, drugs, and climate. Drawing on a vast range of material, from critical theory to pop culture to the intimacies and plain exchanges of daily life, Nelson explores how we might think, experience, or talk about freedom in ways responsive to the conditions of our day. Her abiding interest lies in ongoing "practices of freedom" by which we negotiate our interrelation with - indeed, our inseparability from - others, with all the care and constraint that relation entails, while accepting difference and conflict as integral to our communion. For Nelson, thinking publicly through the knots in our culture - from recent art world debates to the turbulent legacies of sexual liberation, from the painful paradoxes of addiction to the lure of despair in the face of the climate crisis - is itself a practice of freedom, a means of forging fortitude, courage, and company. 'On Freedom' is an invigorating, essential book for challenging times.
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1992., Duke University Press Call No: 701.18 L955s Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: At the outset, Luke states that his book is a "collection of politically grounded critiques about art." With a keen eye, he examines exhibitions in the context of the political arena, seeking to illustrate how "artistic codes and aesthetic displays can create new currents of social, political, economic, and cultural meaning." Citing examples of works by specific artists and exhibits, Luke takes the reader on a verbally visual trek from the myth-vision of the Old American West, the new Southwest, up to and through the burgeoning power of Japan and other post-World War II influences. While Luke admits his interpretations are contestable, his insightful and often incisive views illustrate how inextricably power, politics, ideology, and art are interwoven into our lives. This is recommended for academic libraries, and any collections with a strong interest in art writing, critical theory, and cultural politics.
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-- Defiance of the artistic imagination2018., Inanna Call No: IND 701.030971 A881u Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Theodor Adorno once remarked that, "...every work of art is an uncommitted crime." This book is a tribute to political artists who deviate from the mainstream and create art that engages with questions of societal oppression, survival, and resistance. It draws on interviews with transnational artists whose work is representative of emerging trends in art, visual culture, and political aesthetics. Uncommitted Crimes reflects on a new generation of artists whose creative praxis, sensibilities, influences, and frames of reference derive from multiple national, religious, and cultural genealogies, and an ambivalent relationship to Western and European nationalisms. Courageously, these racialized, Indigenous, and migrant artists straddle the divides of many categories of identity in regards to gender, sexuality, and 'race.' Their art challenges the silently imbibed worship of whiteness, heteronormative patriarchies, and colonial settler ideologies of "home." These exceptional cultural producers enter into uncomfortable dialogues, creatively. Inspired by their visionary praxis, this book is an uncommitted crime, attempting to smuggle arresting artistic ideas into a site of intellectual imagi/nation. Artists whose works are explored in this book include: Andil Gosine, Syrus Marcus Ware, Elisha Lim; Amita Zamaan and Helen Lee; Shirin Fathi; Kara Springer; Rajni Perera; Joshua Vettivelu; Brendan Fernandes; Kerry Potts and Rebecca Belmore; The Mass Arrival Collective (Farrah Miranda, Graciela Flores Mendez, Tings Chak, Vino Shanmuganathan, and Nadia Saad.)"--
