{"id":71,"date":"2013-11-11T15:51:46","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T20:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/amst282\/?page_id=71"},"modified":"2013-12-04T14:19:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T19:19:28","slug":"3536-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/amst282\/3536-2\/","title":{"rendered":"35\/36"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"35:36\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Annie Pootoogook, (Inuit, Cape Dorset, Canada, b. 1969)<\/b><\/p>\n

35\/36,<\/i> 2006\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Collagraph and stencil\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

17 x 30 inches<\/b><\/p>\n

Reproduced with the permissions of Dorset Fine Arts<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u201cI never thought that this is [a] traditional Inuit way, [rather] this is [a] white style.\u00a0 I never thought about that because I just draw what I see.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Annie Pootoogook<\/p>\n

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35\/36\u00a0<\/i>confronts contemporary Inuit femininity and sexuality, subjects rarely depicted in Inuit art, through the isolation of a single red bra. \u00a0Inuit prints often isolate objects by traditionally depicting seals or fish, important aspects of Inuit life; however, in this work, a bra floats in an ambiguous pictorial space and its details are not minutely rendered. \u00a0Because of the spatial ambiguity and the object\u2019s flatness, the bra can be understood as a symbol or pictograph. \u00a0In replacing a traditional subject with a contemporary and sexually charged object,\u00a035\/36\u00a0<\/i>forefronts Inuit femininity as an issue relevant to Inuit culture. \u00a0The isolation of an everyday object and the manipulation of color and form also echoes North American Pop art while revealing an explicitly Inuit narrative. \u00a0Daughter of Napatchie Pootoogook, and granddaughter of Pitseolak Ashoona, two well-known Inuit artists, Annie Pootoogook began making art in the late 1990\u2019s with the support of the Kinngait Co-operative.<\/p>\n

Her drawings, which focus on contemporary Inuit life as opposed to established Inuit subjects, have brought her fame in the art world and in 2006 she was the first Inuit artist to win the Sobey Prize.\u00a0 Pootoogook\u2019s art has been strongly influenced by her family, particularly her grandmother who was also interested in recording scenes of everyday life, Pootoogook being especially interested in the contemporary realities of Inuit peoples. \u00a0Like the artist\u2019s scenes of domestic interiors,\u00a035\/36\u00a0<\/i>unsettles perceptions that categorize the Inuit experience as one-dimensional. \u00a0<\/b>She presents Inuit people in a way that most have recognized before, dimensional and \u201calive.\u201d\u00a0 Pootoogook destabilizes perceptions of Native women who have been labeled \u201cgenderless\u201d and \u201cbackwards\u201d by dominant narratives. \u00a0Through the bra, as a universal icon, the artist employs levity to confront the imposition of Western culture on all facets of Inuit culture and challenges the notion that Native peoples are stuck in the past and removed from modernity. \u00a0As a widely recognizable object, the bra is an approachable and inviting subject but the artist destabilizes this universality by placing it an Inuit context.\u00a0 Pootoogook simultaneously subverts stereotypical ideas of what life in the Arctic can be and who Inuit people, particularly Inuit women, are.<\/p>\n

Aaron Jones ’16 & Caroline Winkeller ’14<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2190 Kitchecut<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0|\u00a0<\/strong>Pitseolak’s Glasses \u2192<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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