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    This is not a hoax : unsettling truth in Canadian culture / Heather Jessup.

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    • Title:This is not a hoax : unsettling truth in Canadian culture / Heather Jessup.
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    • Author/Creator:Jessup, Heather, author.
    • Published/Created:Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2019]
      ©2019

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Truthfulness and falsehood in art.
      Hoaxes--Canada.
      Deception--Canada.
      Literary forgeries and mystifications.
      Tricksters.
    • Medical Subjects: Deception
    • Description:ix, 215 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
    • Summary:"It's about hoaxes in Canadian culture. It shows how some contemporary artists and writers disrupt the curatorial and authorial practices of Canada's most respected cultural institutions (art galleries, museums, publishers) in order to foment and celebrate discomfort, imagination, empathy, and change."-- Provided by publisher.
    • Additional formats:Issued also in electronic formats.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9781771123648 hardcover
      1771123648 hardcover
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE NOVEL IN THREE DIMENSIONS: Iris Haussler's Historical Reconstruction at the Grange
      Iris Haussler's Historic Reconstruction at the Grange
      Haptic Conceptual Art
      Museum Label's Pact
      Complicated Complicity: The Necessity of a Viewer
      Improvised Choreographies: The Role of the Tour Guides at the Grange
      With Open Eyes: Revising the Historical Tour
      Mistakenness and Disorientation: Responses to Iris Haussler's Hoax
      (Pissing?) On the Museum's Authority
      pt. TWO UNSETTLING IMAGES: Decolonizing Ethnographies in the Artworks of Brian Jungen, Jeff Wall, and Rebecca Belmore
      Ethnography, Art, and Colonial Thinking
      Reverse Ethnography
      Reverse Ethnography of Brian Jungen's Sketches Solicited for Wall Drawings
      Near-Documentary Photography of Jeff Wall
      Unsettling Acts of Remembrance: Rebecca Belmore's Wild and Vigil
      pt. THREE IMAGINING THE AUTHOR: The Heteronyms of Fernando Pessoa, Erin Moure, and David Solway
      Heteronyms of Fernando Pessoa, Erin Moure, and David Solway
      What Is a Heteronym?
      Metaphoric Possibilities: Translating the As If of a Portuguese Shepherd
      Collaborative Possibilities: The Interfering Theatrics of a Galician Theatre Director
      Critical Possibilities: A Greek Fisherman Suffering from the "Malady of Atwoodism"
      Translational Possibilities: (Dis)comforts of the Mother Tongue.
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