Art Metropole

#10102

Vancouver Anthology

Editor

Stan Douglas

Writers

Keith Wallace, Sara Diamond, Nancy Shaw, Maria Insell, William Wood, Carol Williams, Robin Peck, Robert Linsley, Scott Watson, and Marcia Crosby

Price

$35.00

Date

2011

Publisher

Or Gallery and Talonbooks

Format

Anthologies

Details

Hardcover

Size

17 × 24.5 × 3 cm

Length

319 

Genre

Art History, Canadian, Arts Writing, Film/Video

Description

The second, updated edition of Vancouver Anthology, first published in 1991 and edited by acclaimed artist Stan Douglas.

The essays collected in this book were first presented in the autumn of 1990 as part of a lecture series entitled Vancouver Anthology, a forum in which each contributing writer could test his or her research on the question of art and politics in public, before their papers were sent into print.

Contributors include: Keith Wallace, Sara Diamond, Nancy Shaw, Maria Insell, William Wood, Carol Williams, Robin Peck, Robert Linsley, Scott Watson and Marcia Crosby.

The book captures an art scene in flux, grappling with the legacy of local social and political insecurities while turning its focus towards international ambitions. Two decades on, the volume still packs a punch.
— Canadian Art Magazine

Vancouver Anthology was a revelation when I first read it and remains an essential and inspiring document twenty years later. It is a model of how histories can be generated from the still-living past and forwarded as a guide to the future. Each of these essays is evidence of original and independent thinking by artists and writers who have worked at the heart of the Vancouver scene. It is first-rate and first-hand art history.
— Ian Wallace, artist

This book is required reading for those wishing to grasp why art in Vancouver is bent in certain directions but not others.
— John O’Brian, Professor Emeritus of Art History, University of British Columbia

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