The 2014 exhibition explored how modernist legacies are being revisited
by contemporary, largely female, Canadian artists' the formalist
aesthetics of the modernist movement of the 1960s (which included many
Saskatchewan artists via the Emma Lake workshops) are now being
recognized by female Canadian artists at various stages of their
careers' an interesting phenomenon given that women artists were
historically largely excluded from the intellectual discourse at the
birth of the movement.
Fully illustrated with exhibition installation images, the book follows
suit in presenting artists from across Canada who utilize formalist
aesthetics in ways that take new conceptual, narrative and aesthetic
turns. In addition, three critical essays--two commissioned and one from
the exhibition curator-- contextualize the movement.