Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Unceded Territories (9781927958513)
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Author: Karen Duffek, Tania Willard (Author), Glen Alteen (Author)
Unceded Territories is a major and timely review of the work of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, spanning thirty years of his painterly and polemical practice. It places the artist's concerns in dialogue with this moment in our shared histories. An artist of Cowichan and Okanagan descent, Yuxweluptun lives and works on unceded Coast Salish territories in Vancouver, British Columbia. He calls himself a history painter, a monumentalist, a modernist. Impassioned in his commitment to advance First Nations rights to the land and effect change, Yuxweluptun fuses art with political action -- he "paints freedom and equality". This retrospective includes brilliant commentary from Michael Turner, Lucy Lippard, Marcia Crosby, Glenn Alteen, a short-story by Jimmie Durham. In an extensive dialogue, curators Karen Duffek and Tania Willard discuss the meaning of Yuxweluptun's practice and place it in the context of the First Nations struggle for autonomy, justice, and environmental preservation. In a searing and powerful artist's statement, Yuxweluptun himself explains the essence of his painting and the forces that drive his artistic and political life. Published to accompany the exhibition at the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology this volume includes 65 of Yuxweluptun's paintings from the last three decades and will be a lasting document of his art and activism.
Publisher: Figure 1 Publishing (10/11/2016)
Hardcover: 192 pages
ISBN-10: 1927958512
ISBN-13: 9781927958513
Item Weight: 3.30lbs
Dimensions: 12.00h x 10.20w x 0.80d
Unceded Territories is a major and timely review of the work of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, spanning thirty years of his painterly and polemical practice. It places the artist's concerns in dialogue with this moment in our shared histories. An artist of Cowichan and Okanagan descent, Yuxweluptun lives and works on unceded Coast Salish territories in Vancouver, British Columbia. He calls himself a history painter, a monumentalist, a modernist. Impassioned in his commitment to advance First Nations rights to the land and effect change, Yuxweluptun fuses art with political action -- he "paints freedom and equality". This retrospective includes brilliant commentary from Michael Turner, Lucy Lippard, Marcia Crosby, Glenn Alteen, a short-story by Jimmie Durham. In an extensive dialogue, curators Karen Duffek and Tania Willard discuss the meaning of Yuxweluptun's practice and place it in the context of the First Nations struggle for autonomy, justice, and environmental preservation. In a searing and powerful artist's statement, Yuxweluptun himself explains the essence of his painting and the forces that drive his artistic and political life. Published to accompany the exhibition at the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology this volume includes 65 of Yuxweluptun's paintings from the last three decades and will be a lasting document of his art and activism.
Publisher: Figure 1 Publishing (10/11/2016)
Hardcover: 192 pages
ISBN-10: 1927958512
ISBN-13: 9781927958513
Item Weight: 3.30lbs
Dimensions: 12.00h x 10.20w x 0.80d
About the Author
Karen Duffek is the Curator of Contemporary Visual Arts & Pacific Northwest at the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology (MOA). Her research focuses on MOA's Northwest Coast Aboriginal collections and the relationship of twentieth-century and contemporary art to cultural practice. Among her exhibitions are Projections: The Paintings of Henry Speck, Udzi'stalis (co-curated with Marcia Crosby, 2012), Peter Morin's Museum (with Peter Morin, 2011), Border Zones: New Art Across Cultures (2010), Robert Davidson: The Abstract Edge (2004-2007), and Beyond History (with Tom Hill, 1989). Duffek's books include Bill Reid and Beyond: Expanding on Modern Native Art (co-edited with Charlotte Townsend-Gault, 2004) and The Transforming Image: Painted Arts of Northwest Coast First Nations (co-authored with Bill McLennan, 2000).
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