Research Catalog

Title

Kent Monkman: shame and prejudice : a story of resilience = Kent Monkman: honte et préjugés : une histoire de résilience.

Author

Monkman, Kent,

Publication

Toronto, ON : Art Museum, University of Toronto ; London, United Kingdom : Black Dog Press, 2020.

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Holdings

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Additional Authors

• Fischer, Barbara K., 1971-
• Hill, Richard William, 1967-
• Lippard, Lucy R.,
• Saul, John Ralston, 1947-
• University of Toronto. Art Museum, host institution.

Description

271 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Summary

Artist Kent Monkman's all-encompassing project, Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience, takes viewers on a journey through Canada's history, starting in the present and going back before Canadian confederation. Throughout the book there are clever albeit controversial commentaries told by Monkman's genderfluid, time-travelling, supernatural alter-ego Miss ChiefEagle Testickle. Her narratives takes viewers through the history of New France and the fur trade, the nineteenth-century dispossession of Indigenous lands through Canadian colonial policies, the horrors of the residential school system, and modern Indigenous experiences in urban environments. Shame and Prejudice challenges predominant narratives of Canadian history andhonours the resilience of Indigenous peoples. This book accompanies Monkman's largest solo exhibition to date, which is currently travelling across Canada at venues including the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the GlenbowMuseum in Calgary, and the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver. The exhibition includes the artist's own paintings, drawings, and sculptural works, which form a dialogue with historical artefacts and artworks borrowed from museums and private collections across Canada. The book is trilingual with all text in English, French and Cree.

Alternative Title

• Kent Monkman: honte et préjugés : une histoire de résilience
• Kent Monkman: shame & prejudice : a story of resilience = Kent Monkman: honte et préjugés : une histoire de résilience
• Shame & prejudice : a story of resilience = Honte et préjugés : une histoire de résilience
• Shame and prejudice : a story of resilience = Honte et préjugés : une histoire de résilience

Subject

• Indians in art > Exhibitions
• Indians in art
• Indians of North America > Exhibitions
• Indians of North America
• Monkman, Kent > Exhibitions
• Monkman, Kent

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Published in conjuction with the exhibition "Shame and prejudice : a story of resilience by Kent Monkman", Art Museum at the University of Toronto, January 26-March 5, 2017.
• Parallel title also appears in Cree script.

Language (note)

• Parallel text in English, French, and Cree.

Contents

Introduction / by Kent Monkman -- Shame and prejudice : a story of resilience : excerpts from the memoir of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: New France, reign of the beaver ; Father of Confederation ; Wards of the state/the Indian problem ; Starvation ; Forcibile transfer of children ; Incarceration ; The res house ; Sickness and healing ; Urban rez -- A Confederation Day visit to the studio of Miss Chief / by Richard William Hill -- Dashed hopes and beauty : the urban rez paintings / by Lucy R. Lippard -- Art as the disciplinarian of mythology / by John Ralston Saul -- Afterword: Contending with history... in the art museum / by Barbara Fischer.

ISBN

• 1912165260
• 9781912165261

LCCN

99987380610

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries