
Remembering Postmodernism:
Trends in Canadian Art, 1970-1990
Oxford University Press, Canada
2nd Edition
Published on 14. June 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
172 pages
978-0-19-544879-5 (ISBN)
Description
The postmodern in Canadian visual arts had reached its zenith by the late 1980s. When Remembering Postmodernism was published just a few yeast later, it was perfectly poised to be the first detailed examination of this movement in Canadian art. Lauded as "ground breaking" and "intelligent" by critics, Mark A. Cheetham's study focuses on memory as a central and recurring issue in the work of some forty of our leading artists, individual and collective. Among the artists discussed are
Bruce Barber, Carl Beam, Ian Carr-Harris, Melvin Charney, Allyson Clay, Andy Fabo, Joe Fafard, General Idea, Angela Grauerholz, Janice Gurney, Barbara Steinman, and Joanne Tod.
Cheetham's discussion deals with postmodernism's relation to the art-historical past as well as its built-in retrospective construction of modernism, against which it defines itself. In addition, he explores such issues as the gender implications of art-historical remembering and the social and frequently political potentials of postmodern art. In her afterword, noted theorist Linda Hutcheon presents a broad overview situating Cheetham's detailed discussions within the on-going debates about
postmodernism in Canada and internationally.
Illustrated with 30 colour reproductions of paintings, sculptures, and installations, the second edition of Remembering Postmodernism is an essential book for anyone concerned with the history of the visual arts in Canada in their international context.
Bruce Barber, Carl Beam, Ian Carr-Harris, Melvin Charney, Allyson Clay, Andy Fabo, Joe Fafard, General Idea, Angela Grauerholz, Janice Gurney, Barbara Steinman, and Joanne Tod.
Cheetham's discussion deals with postmodernism's relation to the art-historical past as well as its built-in retrospective construction of modernism, against which it defines itself. In addition, he explores such issues as the gender implications of art-historical remembering and the social and frequently political potentials of postmodern art. In her afterword, noted theorist Linda Hutcheon presents a broad overview situating Cheetham's detailed discussions within the on-going debates about
postmodernism in Canada and internationally.
Illustrated with 30 colour reproductions of paintings, sculptures, and installations, the second edition of Remembering Postmodernism is an essential book for anyone concerned with the history of the visual arts in Canada in their international context.
Reviews / Votes
"Cheetham's ground-breaking work should surely be known by everyone with a continuing interest in this country's recent visual art."--Globe and Mail
"A must read."
--Globe and Mail
"thought-provoking work."
--The Prairie Journal
More details
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
30 full-colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
216 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-544879-5 (9780195448795)
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Mark A. Cheetham
Remembering Postmodernism
Book
02/1991
Oxford University Press, Canada
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Persons
Mark A. Cheetham is a professor of art history at the University of Toronto. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Art Journal Award, he is the author of a dozen books, volumes, and exhibition catalogues, most recently Artwriting, Nation, and Cosmopolitanism in Britain: The "Englishness" of English Art Theory since the Eighteenth Century (2012) and co-curator of Jack Chambers: The Light From the Darkness / Silver Paintings and
Film (2011).
Linda Hutcheon is professor emeritus of English and comparative literature at the University of Toronto. She has published a long list of books, including A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction (1988), The Politics of Postmodernism (1989), The Canadian Postmodern: A Study of Contemporary English-Canadian Fiction (1992), and A Theory of Adaptation (2006). She has also co-authored three books on opera, medicine, and culture with Michael Hutcheon,
MD.
Film (2011).
Linda Hutcheon is professor emeritus of English and comparative literature at the University of Toronto. She has published a long list of books, including A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction (1988), The Politics of Postmodernism (1989), The Canadian Postmodern: A Study of Contemporary English-Canadian Fiction (1992), and A Theory of Adaptation (2006). She has also co-authored three books on opera, medicine, and culture with Michael Hutcheon,
MD.
Author
Professor, Department of Art, University of Toronto, Canada
Professor Emeritus University of Toronto, Canada
Content
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ; PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION ; PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION ; INTRODUCTION ; 1. Remembering Art's Past ; 2. Remembering the Subject ; 3. Remembering Society ; AFTERWORD BY LINDA HUTCHEON: POSTMODERNISM'S IRONIC PARADOXES: POLITICS AND ART ; NOTES ON ARTISTS ; REFERENCES ; INDEX