Aug 2010
Author: Evan Lee, Trevor Mahovsky and Jenifer Papararo
Published: Aug 21, 2010
Publisher: Contemporary Art Gallery
Price: $33.00 CDN
Still Life is published in conjunction with the exhibition Triumphant Carrot: The Persistence of Still Life, and contains essays by Evan Lee, Jenifer Papararo and Trevor Mahovsky. Jenifer Papararo looks at the continued relevance of this genre and its relation to the development of the avant-garde. Also included are texts by two of the artists in the exhibition. Trevor Mahovsky draws parallels between recent theoretical interests in the everyday and the value of still life; and Evan Lee uses the dollar store to discuss the complex relations between the consumption of objects and what a still life represents.
Still Life is the second publication in a series of three that use the petit genres of landscape, portrait and still life to reflect the CAG's recent programming and to frame current tendencies in contemporary art.
116 PP, colour illustrations, 5.5 x 7 in.
Purchase all three in the petit genre series, Landscape, Still Life and Portrait for the special price of $66.
