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Pictura

Pictura

Essays on the Works of Roy Kiyooka

By Juliana Pivato

How do you write about an artist who refused to be contained? Widely published and celebrated, Roy Kenzie Kiyooka was an influential Canadian artist and writer who gifted an extensive body of work that unfolded in nearly every dimension of media. Throughout his life, he continued to redefine his context for articulation. His early success and recognition as a painter and poet expanded to include a practice in photography, sculpture, film, performance and music improvisation. But his compulsion for articulation also manifested as a resistance towards resolution and an embracing of its provisionality.

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Guernica Editions (Essential Writers Series)

9781771834940

310 pages |

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Reading Kiyooka’s oeuvre whole without reducing its myriad parts is a difficult task, but one the essays collected here manage with wit, sensitivity, and care.

Dougal McNeill, Canadian Literature

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