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Vikky Alexander : extreme beauty by Alexander, Vikky, 1959- artist; Container of (work): Alexander, Vikky, 1959- .Works. Selections; Container of (work): Augaitis, Daina. Vikky Alexander; Bartels, Kathleen S., 1956- writer of foreword; Augaitis, Daina, editor; Pires, Leah, contributor; Tousley, Nancy, contributor; Bonin, Vincent, contributor; Container of (work): Pires, Leah. Double takes; Container of (work): Tousley, Nancy. Allegory and paradox in Vikky Alexander's "Nature."; Container of (work): Bonin, Vincent. Vikky Alexander; Vancouver Art Gallery, publisher, host institution is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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"Shortly after graduating from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Vikky Alexander made her 1983 entry into the international art world while living in New York by participating in photo historian Abigail Solomon Godeau's exhibition The Stolen Image and its Uses. For over a decade she was active in a circle of New York artists that merged the critical ideas of Minimalism and Conceptual Art with photography, and came to be known as the Pictures Generation. Since then she has continued to explore the appropriated image through her own photography, especially in relation to iconic representations of nature as well as the spaces of consumerism--two subjects that remain significant in today's cultural discourses. This book, which accompanies an exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery, is a beautifully illustrated retrospective of nearly four decades of Alexander's work. Since the 1980s, Alexander has made numerous series of photographs, montages, sculptures, collages and installations, all working to hone a vision that captures the spectacle and inherent falseness of certain public and private spaces. From the exaggerated architecture of Versailles, Disneyland and the West Edmonton M

Author

Alexander, Vikky, 1959- artist; Container of (work): Alexander, Vikky, 1959- .Works. Selections; Container of (work): Augaitis, Daina. Vikky Alexander; Bartels, Kathleen S., 1956- writer of foreword; Augaitis, Daina, editor; Pires, Leah, contributor; Tousley, Nancy, contributor; Bonin, Vincent, contributor; Container of (work): Pires, Leah. Double takes; Container of (work): Tousley, Nancy. Allegory and paradox in Vikky Alexander's "Nature."; Container of (work): Bonin, Vincent. Vikky Alexander; Vancouver Art Gallery, publisher, host institution

Publisher

Figure. 1 : Vancouver Art Gallery

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781773270937

Subjects

Art, Arts