<p>Since her appearance in the late 1990s, Wangechi Mutu's collage-drawings depicting black women, tampered with and prey to strange bodily mutations, have generated much debate and interest on the international art scene. The broad range of raw materials she uses - magazines on fashion and current events, geography and ethnography, motorcycles and pornography - allows her to tackle the stereotypes of media representation, particularly of women, head on. While presenting an overview of new and recent work, this publication is centered on the installation Moth Girls, 2010, recently acquired by the Musee. In the recurrence of a half-human, half-animal, female figure, the product of an extreme hybridization, the work reintroduces the notion of taxonomy, along with the volatile notion of classification and hierarchization of species and, by extension, peoples and races.</p>

Wangechi Mutu (English and French Edition)

Arts & Photography

Belisle, Josee

Individual Artists

ABC Art Books Canada Distribution

Founded in 1964, Montreal's Musee d'art contemporain was the first major Canadian art institution to champion contemporary art. Today the museum celebrates its unparalleled collection with this encyclopedic review of abstract art, artists and art movements from the 1940s to today. A vast panorama of 110 works by 60 artists over seven decades is magnificently illustrated and discussed with both original essays by leading scholars and with rare archival texts written in the heat of the debates on the question of abstraction in Canada, particularly in Quebec. Accompanied by a bibliographic list of artists as well as an complete repertory of Canadian abstract art exhibitions since 1942.

La Question de l'abstraction / The Question of Abstraction (English and French Edition)

History & Criticism

Musee D'Art Contemporain De

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