Aesthetics of Repair by Eugenia Kisin HARDBACK 9781487503420

Aesthetics of RepairIndigenous Art and the Form of Reconciliation\nAuthor(s): Eugenia Kisin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781487503420, 978-1487503420\nSynopsis\nAesthetics of Repair analyses how the belongings called \""art\"" are mobilized by Indigenous artists and cultural activists in British Columbia, Canada. Drawing on contemporary imaginaries of repair, the book asks how diverse forms of collective reckoning with settler-colonial harm resonate with urgent conversations about aesthetics of care in art. The discussion moves across urban and remote spaces of display for Northwest Coaststyle Indigenous art, including galleries and museums, pipeline protests, digital exhibitions, an Indigenous-run art school, and a totem pole repatriation site.\n\n The book focuses on the practices around art and artworks as forms of critical Indigenous philosophy, arguing that arts efficacies in this moment draw on .