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Author Jessup, Heather, author.

Title This is not a hoax : unsettling truth in Canadian culture / Heather Jessup
Published Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 215 pages)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Little Disrupters -- Part One: A Novel in Three Dimensions: Iris Häussler's Historical Reconstruction at the Grange -- Iris Häussler's Historic Reconstruction at the Grange -- Haptic Conceptual Art -- The 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 Häussler's Hoax
(Pissing?) On the Museum's Authority -- Part Two: Unsettling Images: Decolonizing Ethnographies in the Artworks of Brian Jungen, Jeff Wall, and Rebecca Belmore -- Ethnography, Art, and Colonial Thinking -- Reverse Ethnography -- The Reverse Ethnography of Brian Jungen's Sketches Solicited for Wall Drawings -- The Near-Documentary Photography of Jeff Wall -- Unsettling Acts of Remembrance: Rebecca Belmore's Wild and Vigil -- Part Three: Imagining the Author: The Heteronyms of Fernando Pessoa, Erín Moure, and David Solway
The Heteronyms of Fernando Pessoa, Erín Moure, and David Solway What Is a Heteronym? -- Metaphoric Possibilities: Transelating 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 -- Conclusion: The Art of Stumbling -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 21, 2020)
Subject Truthfulness and falsehood in art.
Hoaxes -- Canada
Deception -- Canada
Literary forgeries and mystifications.
Tricksters.
ART / History / Contemporary (1945-).
Deception
Hoaxes
Literary forgeries and mystifications
Tricksters
Truthfulness and falsehood in art
Canada
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1771123656
9781771123662
1771123664
9781771123655