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Form follows fiction : art and artists in Toronto /

By:

Jacob, Luis, 1971- [author,, curator.]

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Toronto, ON : London : Art Museum at the University of Toronto ; Black Dog Press Limited, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 239 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 29 cmContent type:

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781912165278
1912165279
9781911164708
1911164708

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

709.713541 23
704.9499713541 23

LOC classification:

N6547.T67 J33 2020

Contents:

Director's preface / Barbara Fischer -- Form follows fiction: art and artists in Toronto / Luis Jacob -- When fictions become form : Luis Jacob ; Will Kwan ; Greg Curnoe ; Adrian Blackwell ; General Idea ; Tess Boudreau Taconis ; Harold Town ; Robert Houle ; Lisa Steele ; Jeff Thomas ; Carole Condé & Karl Beveridge ; Ho Tam ; Camille Turner -- Inhabitants of a vacant lot : Bonnie Devine ; Renée Van Halm ; Unknown (Conditions of competition) ; Peter Kolisnyk ; Unknown (The Toronto Purchase) ; Gordon Lebredt ; General Idea ; John Collins ; Sir David William Smith ; Robert Wiens ; Peter MacCallum ; Isobel Harry ; Tom Dean ; David Anderson ; Rita Letendre ; Duane Linklater ; Jeff Thomas ; Adrian Blackwell ; Carlo Cesta ; Public Studio -- Views from the 6IX : Sameer Farooq and Mirjam Linschooten ; Martha and the Muffins ; Armstrong, Beere and Hime ; Scott Dickson and Robert Koopmans ; Karen Henderson ; David Armstrong Six ; Toronto Ink Company ; Jon Sasaki ; Robert Gagen ; Shirley Wiitasalo ; Charles Pachter ; James Carl ; Peter Bowyer ; Jaan Poldaas ; Deirdre Logue and Allyson Mitchell ; Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay ; Michael Buckland ; Mitch Robertson ; Kim Adams ; General Idea -- Borderline cases : John Marriott ; Christiane Pflug ; Gordon Lebredt ; General Idea ; Lisa Steele ; Michel Lambeth ; Michael Snow ; Frederick Hagan ; Joyce Wieland ; Kwan Tse ; Ian Carr-Harris ; Roula Partheniou ; Unknown (Women's Committee Members) ; Denis Villeneuve ; Ian Carr-Harris ; Michael Snow ; Joyce Wieland ; Annie MacDonell ; Frederick Verley ; Suzy Lake ; Bridget Moser ; Shelley Niro ; Carl Beam ; Joanne Tod ; Kent Monkman ; David Buchan ; Nobuo Kubota -- This is paradise : Oliver Girling ; Napo B ; Kim Adams ; Lorne Wagman ; Arthur Lismer ; Bobs Cogill Haworth ; Tony Wilson ; Day Milman and Paige Gratland with John Caffery ; Bruce La Bruce and G.B. Jones ; Steve Reinke ; Colin Campbell ; Rae Johnson ; Steve Reinke ; Wendy Coburn ; Lawren S. Harris ; Arthur Lismer ; Lawren S. Harris ; Arthur Lismer ; Lawren S. Harris ; General Idea ; Sandra Meigs ; Arthur Lismer ; J.E.H. MacDonald ; Peter MacCallum ; Gordon Rayner ; Oliver Girling ; Charlie Murray and Thom Van Der Vaag ; John G. Howard ; Paraskeva Clark ; Olia Mishchenko ; Lisa Steele ; Deanna Bowen ; Greg Curnoe ; Sarindar Dhaliwal ; Suzy Lake ; David Buchan ; Arnaud Maggs ; Arthur Renwick ; Yvonne McKague Housser ; Ed Pien ; Janice Gurney ; Daniel Olson.

Summary: How do artists in Toronto visualise their sense of place? Are there particular 'made-in-Toronto' ways of thinking about the city? With work selected by internationally renowned Toronto-based artist Luis Jacob, Form Follows Fiction: Art and Artists in Toronto considers the ways in which artists visualise Toronto, throughout a period of fifty years. Presenting a thematic clustering of works by 86 artists, the book is premised on the tendency of artists in the city to favour performative and allegorical procedures to articulate their sense of place. Four gestures-mapping, modelling, performing and congregating-serve as guideposts to a diverse array of artistic practices. The book is a constellation of symbolic forms, or memes, that repeatedly appear in the work of artists of different generations; it presents a panorama of the blueprints that artists have drafted over many decades to give form to life in one of North America's largest cities. The book features work by artists such as Suzy Lake, Kent Monkman, Ed Pien, Roula Partheniou and Michael Snow, all of whom have previously published with Black Dog Press. It includes historical documents gathered from local archives, as well as contemporary ephemera.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Catalogues	Carleton University, AVRC	Open-stacks	N6547.T67 J33 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan		16055000756

"An exhibition held in two parts at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, September 6-November 6, 2016, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery; September 6-December 10, 2016, University of Toronto Art Centre"--Colophon.

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