Mythologizing Norval Morrisseau

SKU: 9780887558108

Author:
Carmen L. Robertson
Grade Levels:
College, University
Nation:
Ojibwe, Woodland
Book Type:
Paperback
Pages:
221
Publisher:
University of Manitoba Press
Copyright Date:
2016

Price:
Sale price$27.95

Description

Mythologizing Norval Morrisseau: Art and the Colonial Narrative in the Canadian Media examines the complex identities assigned to Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau. Carmen L. Robertson, a Lakota/Scottish associate professor of art history at University of Regina, charts both the colonial attitudes and the stereotypes directed at Morrisseau and other Indigenous artists in Canada’s national press. Robertson also examines Morrisseau’s own shaping of his image. An internationally known and award-winning artist from a remote area of northwestern Ontario, Morrisseau founded an art movement known as Woodland Art developed largely from Indigenous and personal creative elements. Still, until his retrospective exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada in 2006, many Canadians knew almost nothing about Morrisseau’s work. Using discourse analysis methods, Robertson looks at news stories, magazine articles, and film footage, ranging from Morrisseau’s first solo exhibition at Toronto’s Pollock Gallery in 1962 until his death in 2007 to examine the cultural assumptions that have framed Morrisseau's life and art.

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