Birds : A City, Some Rain

Ross, Stuart. Birds : A City, Some Rain. Vancouver BC: Artspeak Gallery, 2004.

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Abstract (English)

"In fables, animals speak and act like humans and this device allows the author to speak more candidly about human society than realism would allow. In her art world fables, Toni Latour looks with a similar candour at the pecking order in her field of operations. From medieval Bestiaries to Disneyworld, animals are invested with human foibles, vices, virtues and motivations and used to stand in for the most idealized and debased human characteristics. Latour reflects this cultural history back upon itself by imitating animal behaviour as an allegory of that curious human habit of art-making." -- Publisher's website.

Types:	Catalogues > Exhibition catalogues
All Contributors:	Ross, Stuart (Author)
Dossier:	410 - LATOUR, TONI
Collation:	16 pages : colour illustrations ; 21 cm
ISBN:	0921394470
Language of Publication:	English
Publishers:	Vancouver BC: Artspeak Gallery
Artists:	Latour, Toni
Critics / Curators / Historians:	Brown, Lorna
Event Title:	Perched
Type:	Exhibition
Location:	Artspeak (Vancouver, British-Columbia)
Dates:	6 December 2003 - 24 January 2004
Keywords:	BIRDS; ANTHROPOMORPHISM; PERFORMANCE; INSTALLATION
Copyright Statement:	Toni Latour; Stuart Ross; Artspeak
Related URLs:	Publisher
Notes:	Dust Jacket.
Related records:	Postscript 12
Deposited by:	Users 1 not found.
Date Deposited:	06 Mar 2008
Last Modified:	05 Mar 2021 15:46
URI:	http://e-artexte.ca/id/eprint/19466

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