Lisa Robertson, Proverbs of a She-Dandy (13.1.201801.01 view 1). Vancouver, BC: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 2018. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography.

Proverbs of a She-Dandy

Artists/Creators: Lisa Robertson (Creator)
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (Publisher)
Date: 2018
ID #: 13.1.201801.01
Level of Description: Item

Object Description

Item is a limited edition artist's book by Lisa Robertson, including a set of proverbs about the "menopausal dandy", and a translation of two poems—"Hags" and "Widows"—by Charles Baudelaire. The volume was published on the occasion of the exhibition GLUT, at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, between January 12 and April 8, 2018. As the first in the Beginning with the Seventies series of exhibitions, GLUT celebrated the excessive abundance of the archive, and was concerned with language, depictions of the woman reader as an artistic genre and the potential of reading as performed resistance.

Physical Description

Physical Extent: 1 v. (67 p.) of textual records ; 19.5 x 12.5 cm
Material Type: Textual record

History

Collection: Beginning with the Seventies: GLUT
Credit Line: –
Related Exhibitions: Beginning with the Seventies: GLUT

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