Looks at aesthetic philosophies, techniques and personal styles of four Aboriginal female artists; Doreen Jensen, Rena Point Bolton, Jane Ash Poitras, Joane Cardinal-Schubert.
Duration: 51:49.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 4, Winter, 2000, pp. 30-37
Description
Looks at research and collaboration between author and curator for an exhibition involving a stay in Cape Dorset working with the featured women artists.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 30.
BC Studies, no. 125/126, Spring/Summer, 2000, pp. 147-162
Description
Discusses how Emily Carr's idealized view of First Nations glossed over many of the social problems they faced; and how she chose to share images of what she viewed was the "vanishing" or "disappearing" Indian.
Poitras, once labeled an angry artist, believes anger is foreign to Indigenous philosophies and traditions, instead dictates forgiveness. Her works have display evils done to First Nations people by the church, Western materialism, residential schools and alcohol, but her own worldview is that trials and suffering lead to redemption.
Journal of Canadian Art History, vol. 16, no. 1, 1994, pp. 10-29
Description
Comments on paintings that juxtapose 'primitive' against 'civilized'. A summary in French follows the article.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 10.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 1, Spring, 2000, pp. 46-48
Description
Curatorial notes for an exhibition mounted at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, May 15 to October 31, 1999.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 46.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 2, 1994, pp. 1-41
Description
Explores how a number of nineteenth-century paintings perpetuated and/or challenged the culturally dominant ideas of "Orientalism" and "domestic ideology".