1996, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver
75 pages with 9 b/w illustrations, 8 colour illustrations, paperback
$20.00 CAD
ISBN 0-88865-310-7
Exhibition catalogue from the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (10 November 1995–13 January 1996).
Text by Johanne Lamoureux.
Seeing in Tongues: A Narrative of Language and Visual Arts in Quebec/La bout de la langue: Les arts visuels et la langue au Québec
The exhibition is about how questions of identity are posed within or against a nationalist agenda. Guest curated by Johanne Lamourex, Seeing in Tongues examines the ways in which the language issue, an inescapable feature of the sociopolitical landscape of Québec for some thirty years, has worked its way into the visual arts, where it has left its own figures and traces.
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