Kent Monkman: shame and prejudice : a story of resilience = Kent Monkman: honte et préjugés : une histoire de résilience.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Monkman, Kent, artist, writer of added textual content.

Contributor:

Hill, Richard William, 1967- writer of added textual content.

Lippard, Lucy R., writer of added textual content.

Saul, John Ralston, 1947- writer of added textual content.

Fischer, Barbara K., 1971- writer of added textual content.

University of Toronto. Art Museum, host institution.

Smidt Family Modern and Contemporary Art Collection Fund.

Language:

Cree

English

French

Subjects (All):

Monkman, Kent--Exhibitions.

Monkman, Kent.

Indians in art--Exhibitions.

Indians in art.

Indians of North America--Exhibitions.

Indians of North America.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

271 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Other Title:

Kent Monkman: shame & prejudice : a story of resilience = Kent Monkman: honte et préjugés : une histoire de résilience

Kent Monkman: honte et préjugés : une histoire de résilience

Shame & prejudice : a story of resilience = Honte et préjugés : une histoire de résilience

Shame and prejudice : a story of resilience = Honte et préjugés : une histoire de résilience

Place of Publication:

Toronto, ON : Art Museum, University of Toronto ; London, United Kingdom : Black Dog Press, 2020.

Language Note:

Parallel text in English, French, and Cree.

Summary:

Artist Kent Monkman's all-encompassing project, Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience, takes viewers on a journey through Canada's history, starting in the present and going back before Canadian confederation. Throughout the book there are clever albeit controversial commentaries told by Monkman's genderfluid, time-travelling, supernatural alter-ego Miss ChiefEagle Testickle. Her narratives takes viewers through the history of New France and the fur trade, the nineteenth-century dispossession of Indigenous lands through Canadian colonial policies, the horrors of the residential school system, and modern Indigenous experiences in urban environments. Shame and Prejudice challenges predominant narratives of Canadian history andhonours the resilience of Indigenous peoples. This book accompanies Monkman's largest solo exhibition to date, which is currently travelling across Canada at venues including the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the GlenbowMuseum in Calgary, and the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver. The exhibition includes the artist's own paintings, drawings, and sculptural works, which form a dialogue with historical artefacts and artworks borrowed from museums and private collections across Canada. The book is trilingual with all text in English, French and Cree.

Contents:

Introduction / by Kent Monkman

Shame and prejudice : a story of resilience : excerpts from the memoir of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: New France, reign of the beaver ; Father of Confederation ; Wards of the state/the Indian problem ; Starvation ; Forcibile transfer of children ; Incarceration ; The res house ; Sickness and healing ; Urban rez

A Confederation Day visit to the studio of Miss Chief / by Richard William Hill

Dashed hopes and beauty : the urban rez paintings / by Lucy R. Lippard

Art as the disciplinarian of mythology / by John Ralston Saul

Afterword: Contending with history... in the art museum / by Barbara Fischer.

Notes:

Published in conjuction with the exhibition "Shame and prejudice : a story of resilience by Kent Monkman", Art Museum at the University of Toronto, January 26-March 5, 2017.

Parallel title also appears in Cree script.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Smidt Family Modern and Contemporary Art Collection Fund.

ISBN:

1912165260

9781912165261

OCLC:

1135580618