The Seriousness of Play

The Art of Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

Nicola Levell (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2016
Black Dog Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-910433-11-9 (ISBN)

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Through the art of Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, "The Seriousness of Play" explores the multiple forms, materialities and meaning of Haida Manga as it playfully mutates through repurposed automobile parts, large-scale public art projects, mixed media sculptures and two-dimensional painted and graphic forms. Haida Manga combines traditional Native Northwest Coast designs and form-lines with manga (or manhwa) to create a distinctive and dynamic artform for re-telling oral histories and addressing contemporary issues surrounding land, cultural memory, ecological destruction and the politics of belonging, ownership and identity.

Nicola Levell is an assistant professor of museum and visual anthropology at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver). Her current research, publications and curatorial practice focus on the creative interplay between art and anthropology. Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas (born 1954) is a visual artist, and creator of Haida Manga. His wide-ranging artistic practice explores themes of identity, environmentalism and the human condition. Influenced by both the tradition of Haida iconography and contemporary Asian visual culture, he has created an artistic practice that crosses diverse cultures, generations, and disciplines.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.3.2016
Vorwort	Jonathan King
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	228 x 279 mm
Gewicht	822 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
ISBN-10	1-910433-11-X / 191043311X
ISBN-13	978-1-910433-11-9 / 9781910433119
Zustand	Neuware