Remembering Postmodernism:: Trends in Canadian Art, 1970-1990

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Mark Cheetham (Professor, Department of Art, University of Toronto, Canada) Linda Hutcheon (Professor Emeritus University of Toronto, Canada)

Remembering Postmodernism

: Trends in Canadian Art, 1970-1990

Mark Cheetham (Professor, Department of Art, University of Toronto, Canada), Linda Hutcheon (Professor Emeritus University of Toronto, Canada)

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Oxford University Press, Canada
26 July 2012

Art & design styles: Postmodernism; History of the Americas; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000

"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 ongoing 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."

By: Mark Cheetham (Professor Department of Art University of Toronto Canada), Linda Hutcheon (Professor Emeritus University of Toronto, Canada)
Imprint: Oxford University Press, Canada
Country of Publication: Canada
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 6mm
Weight: 216g
ISBN: 9780195448795
ISBN 10: 0195448790
Pages: 172
Publication Date: 26 July 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

"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."

Reviews for Remembering Postmodernism:: Trends in Canadian Art, 1970-1990

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