Philip Monk — Is Toronto Burning? Three Years in the Making (and Unmaking) of the Toronto Art Scene
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Philip Monk — Is Toronto Burning? Three Years in the Making (and Unmaking) of the Toronto Art Scene

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“The book explores a, pivotal, time when the downtown art scene, rather than the established uptown commercial galleries, became the hub of artistic innovation in Toronto. It covers the intersection of punk, semiotics, fashion, and performance, with artists often using television, video, and, “large-scale photographic blow-ups” to mimic or critique mainstream media. Key Artists and Organizations: The work highlights figures and groups such as General Idea, Susan Britton, Colin Campbell, Lisa Steele, The Clichettes, and the Centre for Experimental Art and Communication (CEAC). The narrative sets this, “subcultural” explosion against the backdrop of 1970s economic and social crises,, where artists, “transitioned from hippie sentimentality to new wave irony”. – A “direct but also personal” account, sometimes acknowledging the, “inherent unreliability” of memory by blending his own, “investment in this story” with, “archival documents”

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General Idea et al. – Monk, Philip: Black Dog Publishing, 2016. Small quarto hardcover, no jacket as issued. 256 pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black-and-white. Near fine / fine copy

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