An indispensable consideration of Canadian art in the eighties. Monk examines the problematics of cultural production and criticism in a uniquely Canadian context.

Struggles With the Image: Essays in Art Criticism (Yyz Critical Works)

Monk, Philip

Arts & Photography

Y Y Z Books

A collection of essays, theoretical position papers, & reviews by Randolph, a Toronto writer & psychiatrist. Chronologically these are drawn from a large & diverse body of writing that spanned the 1980s, a significant decade for critical writing in Canada, when a number of art magazines emerged or appeared & the number of artist-run centers grew. Randolph s writings for these magazines have been reprinted as they first appeared, without revision, to invite a reassessment of their original range & continuity. They are arranged by category: theory; ficto-criticism; fiction; & reviews. Black & white photos.

Psychoanalysis & Synchronized Swimming and Other Writings on Art

Randolph, Jeanne

Against a framework of feminism and postmodernism, sixteen artists, historians and cultural theorists interpret textiles as a conceptual and material field of visual art. Four major themes are articulated: Material and Process, Articulating Gender and Identity, Cloth, Colonialism and Resistance, and Reconsidering Tradition and History. 38 illustrations.

Material Matters: The Art and Culture of Contemporary Textiles

History & Criticism

Original writings explore the history of food in contemporary art as expressed through two broad, intersecting areas: the renewed interest in the everyday (shopping, the kitchen, the garden) as rooted in 1960s conceptual and performance art; and the conditions of globalization where exoticism and other forms of othering are increasingly subject to scrutiny and revision. 65 illustrations, many color.

Foodculture: Tasting Identities and Geographies in Art

There are two kinds of grammarians, those who describe and those who prescribe. In the academic world, the prescribers are usually viewed as the conservative old guard. The descriptarians are usually seen as the activists, young bucks who believe the task of grammarians is to map or chart how speakers use their language and note its changes over time.

Grammar & Not-grammar: Selected Scripts And Essays by Gary Kibbins

Kibbins, Gary

Paterson, Andrew J.

Mining the Media Archive gathers together an exciting collection of essays by writer and cultural theorist Dot Tuer. Ranging from monographs on new media artists to a history of Canada's most controversial artist-run centre, the CEAC, to testimonial writing on cultural politics and post-colonialism in Canada and Argentina, Tuer's writings address issues of global media and local remembrance through a unique blend of storytelling, archival research and cultural analysis.

Mining the Media Archive: Essays on Art, Technology And Cultural Resistance

Tuer, Dot

Pro Forma: Language/Text/Visual Art

Image and Inscription features the work of many of Canadas distinguished authors, critics, curators, and artists who are recognized for their contribution to the discourse and practice of photography... it presents the diversity and the changeable milieu of photographic practice and evokes an unanticipated moment in Canadian photography. It also represents an important step in expanding the contemporary authorship on photography in Canada." - adapted from the Introduction by Robert Bean

Image And Inscription: Essays on Contemporary Photography

The term, "intuition," while commonly used by artists has been somewhat marginalized within art theory and criticism. Whether sensed as a gut feeling or a flash of insight, intuition is central to processes of "coming to know" in aesthetic practice and experience. Many artists habitually rely on extra-rational means of understanding, either in the form of everyday instinct or uncanny cognition. A delicate balance, though, exists between clairvoyance and fantasy, foreknowledge and wishful thinking. Technologies of Intuition demonstrates how artistic sensitivity requires disciplined and cultivated perception. Set in continuity with the compelling history of the Spiritualist Movement and emancipatory feminism, this anthology elucidates intuitive agency as a psychic, somatic and social technology in the fine arts and popular culture.

Technologies of Intuition

Fisher, Jennifer

In Ethics of Luxury renowned Canadian thinker and artist Jeanne Randolph gives us a magnum opus focusing on one of the most pressing issues facing us today €“ how we act morally and ethically while participating in a culture of abundance, opulence and consumerism. Randolph argues that when we use our imagination, as we do when we create, appreciate and live with art, we are acting ethically, expressing our sense of morality in a practical, material way.

Ethics of Luxury: Materialism and Imagination

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