The artist herself : self-portraits by Canadian historical women artists
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Boutilier, Alicia and Tobi Bruce
- Publisher
- Kingston, ON : Agnes Etherington Art Centre ; Hamilton, ON : Art Gallery of Hamilton
- Call Number
- 06.1 B66t
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- Variant Title
- L'artiste elle-me^me : autoportraits de femmes artistes au Canada
- Responsibility
- Alicia Boutilier and Tobi Bruce
- Publisher
- Kingston, ON : Agnes Etherington Art Centre ; Hamilton, ON : Art Gallery of Hamilton
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- 173 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 31 cm
- Subjects
- Art
- Subjects
- Artists - Canada
- Exhibitions
- Art
- Women artists
- Abstract
- Drawing upon our fascination with self-portraits, The Artist Herself expands the genre’s definition by moving beyond the human face to propose other forms of self-representation, from both settler and Indigenous perspectives. The result is a thought-provoking selection of 55 works by 42 women artists in a range of media, including paintings, textiles, photographs and film. Both renowned and lesser-known artists are featured: Pitseolak Ashoona, Simone Mary Bouchard, Emily Carr, Paraskeva Clark, Martha Eetak, Artis Lane, Caroline Gros Louis, Alice Egan Hagen, Frances Anne Hopkins, E. Pauline Johnson, Maud Lewis, Pegi Nicol MacLeod, Hannah Maynard, Daphne Odjig, Princess Louise, Mary Hiester Reid and Marian Dale Scott. From Johnson’s performance costumes representing her dual Mohawk and Euro-Canadian identity to Carr’s painting of herself from the back at her easel, from Maynard’s playful photographs of her multiple selves to Ashoona’s sly comment on her participation in the Inuit art market, these works open up new avenues of inquiry and new understandings of the realities and perspectives of women in Canadian society before 1970. Most important, the exhibition reveals the ways in which women artists have given profound expression to their identities
- Contents
- Foreword / Avant-propos -- Lenders / Pre^teurs -- Acknowledgements / Remerciements -- The artist herself = L'artiste elle-me^me / Alicia Boutilier & Tobi Bruce -- Cree dolls / Sherry Farrell Racette -- Elizabeth Simcoe / Erin Wall -- Katherine Jane Ellice / Arlene Gehmacher -- Shanawdithit / Fiona Polack -- Mary Ann Scrimes & Elizabeth Jane Turner / Janice Helland -- Lady Belleau & Lady Glover / Andrea Kunard -- Frances Anne Hopkins & Princess Louise / Kristina Huneault -- E. Pauline Johnson / Carla Taunton -- E. Pauline Johnson / Paula Whitlow -- Hannah Maynard / Jennifer Salahub -- Maud Darling / Jennifer Salahub -- Bertha May Ingle / Mary Thompson & David Beattie -- Mattie Gunterman / Susan Close -- Caroline Gros Louis / Annette de Stecher -- Emily Carr / Lisa Baldiserra -- Martha (Muqyunnik) Eetak / Maureen Matthews -- Marion Long / Janice Anderson -- Margaret Watkins / Mary O'Connor -- Dorothea Mitchell / Kelly Saxberg -- Sylvia Daoust / Joyce Millar -- Paraskeva Clark / Panya Clark -- Pegi Nicol MacLeod / Laura Brandon -- Simone Mary Bouchard / Laurier Lacroix -- Marian Dale Scott / Esther Tre´panier -- Maud Lewis / Erin Morton -- Elizabeth Harrison / Dorothy Farr -- Suzanne Duquet / Miche`le Grandbois -- Artis Lane / Artis Lane -- Molly Lamb Bobak / Amber Lloydlangston -- Cecil Buller / Sandra Dyck -- Jessie Oonark & Inuit Doll / Heather Igloliorte -- Kenojuak Ashevak / Kenojuak Ashevak -- Christiane Pflug / Georgiana Uhlyarik -- Daphne Odjig / Greg Hill -- Margaret Frank & Marion Wilson / Andy Everson -- Pitseolak Ashoona / Norman Vorano -- Exhibition list = Liste des œuvres -- Contributors = Contributeurs.
- Notes
- Some of the essays are in English, while others are in French
- ISBN
- 9781553394075
- Accession Number
- 2019.46
- Call Number
- 06.1 B66t
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- The URL pertains to the website in which the abstract was drawn from
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