Sonny Assu : a selective history

Assu, Sonny 1975- (Author). Hopkins, Candice, 1977- (Added Author). Nicolson, Marianne (Added Author). Van Camp, Richard, 1971- (Added Author). Walker, Ellyn (Added Author). Indigenous Resources Collection. (Added Author).

Summary: "Stunning retrospective highlighting the playfulness, power, and subversive spirit of Northwest Coast Indigenous artist Sonny Assu. Through large-scale installation, sculpture, photography, printmaking, and painting, Sonny Assu merges the aesthetics of Indigenous iconography with a pop-art sensibility. This stunning retrospective spans over a decade of Assu's career, highlighting more than 120 full-colour works, including several never-before-exhibited pieces. Through analytical essays and personal narratives, Richard Van Camp, Marianne Nicolson, Candice Hopkins, and Ellyn Walker provide brilliant commentary on Assu's practice, its meaning in the context of contemporary art, and its wider significance in the struggle for Indigenous cultural and political autonomy. Exploring themes of Indigenous rights, consumerism, branding, humour, and the ways in which history informs contemporary ideas and identities, Sonny Assu: A Selective History is the first major full-scale book to pay tribute to this important, prolific, and vibrant figure in the Canadian contemporary art world."--Publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781772031706 (paperback)
Physical Description: 221 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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Publisher: Victoria, [British Columbia] : Heritage, [2018]

Content descriptions

General Note:

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"Sonny Assu is a Ligwiłda'xw/Kwakwa̱ka̱'wakw artist known for combining the visual and cultural elements of his Northwest Coast heritage with popular culture and Western principles of art making." -- Back cover fold.

Formatted Contents Note:

Foreword / Janet Rogers -- In order to survive we create / Marianne Nicolson -- From the copper record to Emily Carr: interventions on the imaginary / Candice Hopkins -- (Re) Sounding beyond: speculative futures in the drum works of Sonny Assu / Ellyn Walker -- Sonny Assu is pure psionics and I travelled back in time to tell you this / Richard Van Camp -- A selective history / Sonny Assu -- Acknowledgements -- List of Works -- Collections -- Selected Exhibitions.