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  | | The Vestiges by Jeff Derksen Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2014 by Talonbooks ISBN-13: 978-0-88922-794-1, ISBN: 0-88922-794-2 "Based on the experience of city life, The Vestiges moves across the uneven geography of the present, linking historical moments when quarters of cities were squatted, when social change boiled and the future was up for grabs. In the context of our precarious present, the poem The Vestiges,” around which the book is built, sets out to explore / what happens / to humans when they are reduced / to things by other humans.” In asking this ..." |
 | | Annihilated Time(1st Edition) Poetry and Other Politics by Jeff Derksen Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2009 by Talonbooks ISBN-13: 978-0-88922-612-8, ISBN: 0-88922-612-1 "Reading against the grain of global ideological flows, Derksen demonstrates how borders, identities, national literatures, urban territories, built space and the spaces of culture and politics have not simply been eroded by globalization, but how the traditional identity-determined scales of culture are being re-imagined as contested spaces for dynamic communities of discourse.Apologists for the current global American imperialism ironi ..." |
 | | Scree(Reprint) The Collected Earlier Poems, 1962–1991 by Fred Wah, Jeff Derksen Paperback, 646 Pages, Published 2016 by Talonbooks ISBN-13: 978-0-88922-948-8, ISBN: 0-88922-948-1 "Fred Wah’s career has spanned six decades and a range of formal styles and preoccupations. Scree collects Wah’s concrete and sound poetry of the 1960s, his landscape-centric work of the 1970s, and his ethnicity-oriented poems of the 1980s. Fred was a founding member of the avant-garde TISH group, which helped turn Canadian poetry, in the West in particular, to a focus on language. He has said that his writing has been sustained, primar ..." |
 | | Transnational Muscle Cars by Jeff Derksen Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2003 by Talonbooks ISBN-13: 978-0-88922-473-5, ISBN: 0-88922-473-0 "Transnational Muscle Cars provides a withering critique of how it is that consumption, buying (into) something, buying anything, has become the prime mover in a transient global urbanism that now defines our everyday lives.Written over the past ten years in a quartet of citiesCalgary, Toronto, New York and ViennaTransnational Muscle Cars is the second book in Jeff Derksen’s trilogy addressing place, culture and capital, and draws on a ..." |
 | | Dwell by Jeff Derksen Paperback, 108 Pages, Published 1994 by Talonbooks ISBN-13: 978-0-88922-328-8, ISBN: 0-88922-328-9 "A long poem that blends and bends the lyric, procedural poetry, the travelogue and extended forms, Dwell lives in, or dwells on, the interaction of a restless subjectivity with the seemingly transparent, yet identifiable, social codes that encase us." |
 | | Dennis McNulty Obscure Flows Boil Underneath: 2004-2011 by Chris Fite-Wassilak, Matt Packer, Jeff Derksen, Dennis Mcnulty, Varios Autores Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2013 by Irish Museum Of Modern Art ISBN-13: 978-1-907020-82-7, ISBN: 1-907020-82-9 "This artist’s book serves as a retrospective monograph on the Dublin–based multimedia artist Dennis McNulty (born 1970), documenting selected pieces starting with the artist’s submission to the 2004 São Paulo Biennial and continuing through to the present. An electronic musician, McNulty employs audio as a sculptural material in his videos, sculptures, installations and performances." |
 | | Marion Tuu'luq(1st Edition) by Marie. Bouchard, Marion Bouchard Tuu'luq, Jeff Derksen, Marie Routledge, Phoebe Anne Kudja'aq, Martha Hanna, Kitty Scott Paperback, 110 Pages, Published 2002 by National Gallery Of Canada Import ISBN-13: 978-0-88884-759-1, ISBN: 0-88884-759-9 "Michelle Lewin, Mike MacDonald, Christine Lalonde, and Rosemarie Tovell offered constructive suggestions on the essay texts. An exhibition requires the input of many people and departments within the National Gallery. To all — from the communications department to technical services — thank you for your care, imagination, and professionalism. Particular mention must be made of Clive Cretney, photographer, Doris Couture-Rigert, cons ..." |
 | | Down Time by Jeff Derksen Paperback, 92 Pages, Published 1990 by Talonbooks ISBN-13: 978-0-88922-278-6, ISBN: 0-88922-278-9 "Down Time proposes a social self that is able to recognize the ironies and restrictions we live in without returning to a garrison mentality." |
 | | Scree The Collected Earlier Poems, 1962-1991 by Fred Wah, Jeff Derksen Hardcover, 646 Pages, Published 2016 by Talonbooks ISBN-13: 978-0-88922-947-1, ISBN: 0-88922-947-3 "Fred Wah’s career has spanned six decades and a range of formal styles and preoccupations. Scree collects Wah’s concrete and sound poetry of the 1960s, his landscape-centric work of the 1970s, and his ethnicity-oriented poems of the 1980s. Fred was a founding member of the avant-garde TISH group, which helped turn Canadian poetry, in the West in particular, to a focus on language. He has said that his writing has been sustained, primar ..." |
 | | Ian Wallace(Updated) At the Intersection of Painting and Photography by Kathleen Ritter, Jessica Morgan, Daina Augaitis, Shep Steiner, Jeff Derksen, Ms Christine Poggi, Stan Douglas, Grant Arnold, Ian Wallace, Diedrich Diederichsen Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2013 by Black Dog Publishing Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-1-907317-57-6, ISBN: 1-907317-57-0 ""Ian Wallace: At the Intersection of Painting and Photography" is a monograph on the photographic work of one of Canada s most significant contemporary artists. Ian Wallace's influence is lasting and broad. He has made an outstanding impact on both his contemporaries and subsequent generations through his important work as an art historian, critic and educator and also through an art practice that has consistently demonstrated conceptua ..." |
 | | Stan Douglas(1st Edition) Every Building on 100 West Hastings by Stan Douglas, Reid Shier, Denise Blake Oleksijczuk, Neil Smith, Jeff Derksen, Jeff Sommers, Nick Blomley, Arsenal Pulp Press, Contemporary Art Gallery, B.C. Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2003 by Arsenal Pulp Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55152-135-0, ISBN: 1-55152-135-0 "The 100 block of Vancouver's West Hastings Street is the gateway to one of the most contested and controversial inner-city neighborhoods in North America―Vancouver's infamous and impoverished downtown eastside. Lining the south side of the block are Edwardian-era buildings that have born the brunt of shifting market forces over the years. Developed in the wake of Vancouver's "emergence" as the terminus for the country's national railroa ..." |
 | | Until by Jeff Derksen Paperback, Published 1987 by Small Press Distribution ISBN-13: 978-0-921331-04-9, ISBN: 0-921331-04-5 |
 | | CJ Press, Anthology of Exhibition Essays 2006/2007(1st Edition) by Monika Szewczyk, Clint Burnham, Aaron Peck, Jeff Derksen, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Catriona Jeffries, Jessie Caryl Hardcover, 136 Pages, Published 2008 by Catriona Jeffries ISBN-13: 978-0-9784624-2-0, ISBN: 0-9784624-2-4 "unbenutzt" |
 | | Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism(Updated) Folio Series: A by Tirdad Zolghadr, Maria Fusco, Diedrich Diederichsen, Melanie O'brian, Jeff Khonsary, Jeff Derksen, James Elkins, Artspeak Gallery Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2011 by Fillip Editions/Artspeak ISBN-13: 978-0-9738133-6-4, ISBN: 0-9738133-6-9 "Matters of value and judgment are the subject of recently intensified debate within art criticism. Has art criticism suffered a collective failure of nerve as names and styles boom and bust with increasing rapidity? Conversely, does a discourse that traffics in value judgments risk being coopted into serving--or perhaps even serve outright--as a consumer guide to a bloated contemporary art market in which commerce and critical discourse ..." |
 | | Ken Lum Works with Photography by Jeff Derksen, Martha Hannah, Kitty Scott, Ken Lum Paperback, 102 Pages, Published 2002 by Abc Art Books Canada ISBN-13: 978-0-88884-758-4, ISBN: 0-88884-758-0 "A 20-year retrospective. Lum’s photographs intervene in the public sphere and if a population of immigrants has provided much of the content for his work it is because he works where languages and cultures collide. " |
 | | The Crowning by Henry Tsang, Jeff Derksen, Scott Toguri Mcfarlane, Contemporary Art Gallery, B.C. Paperback, 16 Pages, Published 1996 by Contemporary Art Gallery ISBN-13: 978-0-920751-58-9, ISBN: 0-920751-58-X |
 | | A Long Continual Argument(1st Edition) The Selected Poems of John Newlove by John Newlove, Robert Mctavish, Jeff Derksen, Dr Robert F. Barsky Paperback, 251 Pages, Published 2007 by Chaudiere Books ISBN-13: 978-0-9781601-9-7, ISBN: 0-9781601-9-3 "A Long Continual Argument is the comprehensive statement of an acknowledged poetic master craftsman. It includes all the poems John Newlove chose for his previous Selected Poems with substantial additions from all his major collections: all of his later poetry, as well as previously excluded yet critically acclaimed works such as the long poem "Notes From And Among the Wars" and many of the cynically lyric poems that established his ear ..." |
 | | Institutions by Artists Volume Two by Antonia Pinter, Jeff Khonsary, Ken Becker, Tania Bruguera, Dana Claxton, Sean Dockray, Chris Fitzpatrick, Jessi Khadivi, Sarah Lowndes, Philip Monk, Post Brothers, Christopher Regimbal, Matei Bejenaru, Christopher Cozier, Jeff Derksen, Dirk Fleischmann, Sam Gould, Candice Hopkins Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2019 by Fillip Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-927354-33-9, ISBN: 1-927354-33-1 "The second volume of Institutions by Artists looks at various global artist-run centers and initiatives within the historical contexts that saw their emergence―among them Western Front (Vancouver), Alice Yard (Trinidad and Tobago), ASCO (Los Angeles) and General Idea (Toronto). It compiles material presented at and around the Institutions by Artists conference, organized in Vancouver in 2012, documenting a series of historical and theor ..." |
 | | Alex Morrison(1st Edition) Giving the Story a Treatment (Black Pocketbook Series) (English and German Edition) by Alex Morrison, Christina Ritchie, Nicolaus Schafhausen, Lars Bang Larsen, Jeff Derksen Paperback, 106 Pages, Published 2004 by Sternberg Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9745688-4-3, ISBN: 0-9745688-4-8 "“I have always been interested in what forms radical or sub-cultural activities will inhabit once they eventually make their debut upon the greater cultural field. Perhaps, in these new forms, the message becomes buried under commodification and the particularities of critique lost through the move towards a greater generality and appeal to the largest demographic. In Free Room one question I sought to ask was: are these forms capable o ..." |
 | | Skincerity by Laura Elrick, Kristen Gallagher, Jeff Derksen, Heather Fuller Paperback, 82 Pages, Published 2003 by Krupskaya ISBN-13: 978-1-928650-17-1, ISBN: 1-928650-17-1 "Poetry. "Each of these poems attends the 'dimension in a street' and the variation found there, below the 'billboard's traffic stream' and otherwise ubiquitous capitalist referentiality"--Kristen Gallagher. "Never forgetting that hegemony is fought bloc by bloc, SKINCERITY builds a spatial and social logic dynamically scaled from the body to the global. This logic begins with the question What is to be done and moves through critique an ..." |
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