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Form follows fiction : art and artists in Toronto
- Title
- Form follows fiction : art and artists in Toronto / [curated by] Luis Jacob.
- Publication
- Toronto, ON : Art Museum at the University of Toronto ; London : Black Dog Press Limited, [2020]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JQF 21-219 | Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 |
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- Description
- 239 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 29 cm
- 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 It includes historical documents gathered from local archives, as well as contemporary ephemera.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Art.
- Note
- "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-November 6, 2016, University of Toronto Art Centre"--Colophon.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Call Number
- JQF 21-219
- ISBN
- 9781912165278
- 1912165279
- 9781911164708
- 1911164708
- OCLC
- 1141216618
- Title
- Form follows fiction : art and artists in Toronto / [curated by] Luis Jacob.
- Publisher
- Toronto, ON : Art Museum at the University of Toronto ; London : Black Dog Press Limited, [2020]
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Added Author
- Jacob, Luis, 1971-University of Toronto. Art Museum, host institution.
- Research Call Number
- JQF 21-219