Talking Back to the West: Contemporary First Nations Artists and Strategies of Counter-appropriation
Over a twenty-year period, renowned artists such as Edward Poitras, Robert Houle, Jim Logan, Kent Monkman, among others, appropriate renowned colonial landscape paintings and art historical canonical works, and then alter them to include First Nations narratives, as methods of critiquing the exclusi...
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ftconcordiauniv:oai:https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca:35902 2023-05-15T16:14:20+02:00 Talking Back to the West: Contemporary First Nations Artists and Strategies of Counter-appropriation Froschauer, Christina 2011-09-15 text https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/35902/ https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/35902/1/Froschauer_MA_F2011.pdf en eng https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/35902/1/Froschauer_MA_F2011.pdf Froschauer, Christina (2011) Talking Back to the West: Contemporary First Nations Artists and Strategies of Counter-appropriation. Masters thesis, Concordia University. Thesis NonPeerReviewed 2011 ftconcordiauniv 2022-05-28T18:58:38Z Over a twenty-year period, renowned artists such as Edward Poitras, Robert Houle, Jim Logan, Kent Monkman, among others, appropriate renowned colonial landscape paintings and art historical canonical works, and then alter them to include First Nations narratives, as methods of critiquing the exclusionary nature of grand colonial narratives and their associated historical, art historical and, by extension, anthropological discourses. Using counter-appropriation as an artistic strategy, they critique: the West’s disregard for First Nations histories in North America; Art History’s past failures to classify their art objects as Fine Art; and contemporary cultural constructions of “Indianness” originating from colonial history and ideologies about the “Vanishing Race.” With their works, the artists offer their viewers insight into First Nations histories and stories, thereby enriching the multiple narratives and pluralist discourses existent in North America. Thesis First Nations Spectrum: Concordia University Research Repository (Montreal) Houle ENVELOPE(141.190,141.190,-66.700,-66.700) |
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Over a twenty-year period, renowned artists such as Edward Poitras, Robert Houle, Jim Logan, Kent Monkman, among others, appropriate renowned colonial landscape paintings and art historical canonical works, and then alter them to include First Nations narratives, as methods of critiquing the exclusionary nature of grand colonial narratives and their associated historical, art historical and, by extension, anthropological discourses. Using counter-appropriation as an artistic strategy, they critique: the West’s disregard for First Nations histories in North America; Art History’s past failures to classify their art objects as Fine Art; and contemporary cultural constructions of “Indianness” originating from colonial history and ideologies about the “Vanishing Race.” With their works, the artists offer their viewers insight into First Nations histories and stories, thereby enriching the multiple narratives and pluralist discourses existent in North America. |
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https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/35902/1/Froschauer_MA_F2011.pdf Froschauer, Christina (2011) Talking Back to the West: Contemporary First Nations Artists and Strategies of Counter-appropriation. Masters thesis, Concordia University. |
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