Dana Claxton

Name: Dana Claxton
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9783958298828
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This book offers an insightful exploration of Dana Claxton's art, focusing on key themes such as Indigenous history, culture, beauty, and spirituality. Claxton's diverse practice spans photography, video, mixed-media installations, text works, performances, and curatorial projects, all contributing to a powerful critique of colonial legacies while celebrating Indigenous resurgence and identity. Her work challenges and redefines gallery spaces to be more inclusive of Indigenous perspectives and aesthetics.
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Ideal for readers interested in contemporary Indigenous art, cultural studies, and those seeking a deeper understanding of the intersection between history and artistic expression in First Nations communities.

Description

This book consolidates our understanding of Dana Claxton's dominant and recurring themes—indigenous history, culture, beauty, and spirituality. While Claxton's art often alludes to the destructive legacy of colonialism, it also celebrates the resurgence of First Nations' presence and contemporary identity. What emerges is an artist delivering works of ever greater power and conviction.

With her expansive and genre-defying practice—photography, videos, mixed-media installations, text works, performances, and curatorial work—she continues to critically reimagine the space of the gallery to be accessible for wider Indigenous audiences and to uphold new understandings of beauty.

Dana Claxton has been unwavering in her dedication to her practice for over 25 years and continues to progress as an artist, creating sophisticated and poignant works that, as art historian Michelle La Flamme describes, "stimulate a much-needed dialogue on the power of the image, the role of the gaze, the importance of history, and the possibilities for articulating Aboriginal subjectivity." - Leila Timmins

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783958298828

Publisher: Steidl Publishers

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 29 July 2021

Country: Germany

Imprint: Steidl Verlag

Illustration: 157 Illustrations

Contributors:

Introduction by Leila Timmins
Text by Amy Kazymerchyk
Designed by Barry Gilmore

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 248.0mm

Height: 305.0mm

Weight: 1660g

Pages: 214

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About the Author

Born in 1959, Dana Claxton is Lakota Hunkpapa Sioux and her family reserve is Wood Mountain Lakota First Nations. Claxton is a critically acclaimed, award-winning artist and filmmaker, working across film, video, photography, single and multi-channel video installation and performance art. Her practice investigates the body, the socio-political and the spiritual within realms of indigenous beauty. Claxton's work has been exhibited and collected internationally, and her solo survey exhibition "Fringing the Cube" was held at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2018. She is Head and Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia.