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    I'm not myself at all : women, art, and subjectivity in Canada / Kristina Huneault.

    • Title:I'm not myself at all : women, art, and subjectivity in Canada / Kristina Huneault.
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    • Variant Title:Women, art and subjectivity in Canada.
    • Author/Creator:Huneault, Kristina, author.
    • Published/Created:Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018.
      ©2018
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Women artists--Canada.
      Art--Canada--History.
      Art, Canadian--19th century.
      Art, Canadian--20th century.
      Identity (Psychology) in art.
      Women in art.
    • Genre/Form:Informational works.
      Illustrated works.
    • Description:xiv, 381 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
    • Series:McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history.
    • Summary:"Notions of identity have long structured women's art. Dynamics of race, class, and gender have shaped the production of artworks and oriented their subsequent reassessments. Arguably, this is especially true of art by women, and of the socially engaged criticism that addresses it. If identity has been a problem in women's art, however, is more identity the solution? In this collection of interpretive essays on nineteenth and early twentieth-century art in Canada, author Kristina Huneault offers a meditation on the strictures of identity, and an exploration of forces that unsettle and realign the self. Looking closely at individual artists and works, Huneault combines formal analysis with archival research and philosophical inquiry, building nuanced readings of objects that range from the canonical to the largely unknown. Whether in miniature portraits or genre paintings, botanical drawings or baskets, women artists reckoned with constraints that limited understandings of themselves and others. They also forged creative alternatives. At times, the author explains, identity features in women's artistic work as a failed project, at other times it marks a boundary, beyond which they were able to expand, explore, and exult. Bringing together settler and indigenous forms of cultural expression and foregrounding the importance of colonialism within the development of art in Canada, I'm not myself at all observes and reactivates historical art by women and prompts readers to consider what a less-restrictive conceptualization of selfhood might bring to current patterns of cultural analysis."-- Provided by publisher.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-367) and index.
    • ISBN:0773553193
      9780773553194
    • Contents:Part One: Identities
      Absence: Henrietta Hamilton, Demasduit, and the settler-colonial encounter
      Displacements: Self and home in the art of Frances Anne Hopkins
      Gaps: lived experience and cultural narrative in Helen McNicoll's impressionist canvases
      Part Two: Forces
      Diversity: Identity, difference, and the botanical encounter
      Inclination: Maternity, reverie, and the art of being-with
      Listening: nature and personhood for Emily Carr and Sewinchelwet (Sophie Frank)
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