Sonny Assu is pure Psionics and I travelled back in time to tell you this / Sonny Assu. From the copper record to Emily Carr: interventions on the imaginary / Candice Hopkins -- (Re) Sounding the beyond: speculative futures in the drum works of Sonny Assu / Ellyn Walker -- Sonny Assu is pure Psionics and I travelled back in time to tell you this / Richard Van Camp -- A selective history / Sonny Assu.
Summary:
"Through large-scale installation, sculpture, photography, printmaking, and painting, Sonny Assu merges the aesthetics of Indigenous iconography with a pop-art sensibility. This stunning retrospective spans over a decade of Assu's career, highlighting more than 120 full-color works, including several never-before-exhibited pieces. Through analytical essays and personal narratives, Candice Hopkins, Marianne Nicolson, Richard Van Camp, and Ellyn Walker provide brilliant commentary on Assu's practice, its meaning in the context of contemporary art, and its wider significance in the struggle for Indigenous cultural and political autonomy. Exploring themes of Indigenous rights, consumerism, branding, humor, and the ways in which history informs contemporary ideas and identities, this is the first major full-scale book to pay tribute to this important, prolific, and vibrant figure in the contemporary art world"-- Provided by publisher.
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