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Pulp Fiction

Canadian Art, 2008, Vol.25 (4), p.117

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Pulp Fiction
Author: Turner, Leah
Subjects: Art exhibits ; Sculpture
Is Part Of: Canadian Art, 2008, Vol.25 (4), p.117
Description: Named for the cheap wood-pulp paper upon which they were printed, pulps were mass-produced fiction magazines and paperbacks that titillated and thrilled. As this exhibition's curator, Corinna Ghaznavi, writes, they were "a 'good read' but lacking in literary weight." "Pulp Fiction," at Museum London, gathers drawing, collage, animation, installation and sculpture by 14 young artists who share a predilection for surrealistic subject matter, free-associative process, hand fabrication and references to both high art and lowbrow culture. Though Ghaznavi makes no mention of geographic affinity, many of the participants, such as Jason McLean, Mark DeLong, Marc Bell, the five-person collective The Lions, Amy Lockhart and Shayne Ehman, have been at some point part of a community of artists based in Vancouver who frequently collaborate in ad-hoc arrangements outside the purview of art institutions. As an alternative to Vancouver's well-known highly theoretical artistic discourse, drawings, doodles and zines have emerged as both an aesthetic and a social project, offering highly imaginative expressions of both personal and interrelated subjectivities.
Publisher: Canadian Art
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0825-3854
Source: ProQuest Central

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