{"product_id":"9781913875787-kent-monkman-officer-and-laughing-girl-lofficier-et-la-fille-qui-rit","title":"Kent Monkman","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOfficer and Laughing Girl \/ L'Officier et la jeune fille riant\u003cbr\u003eThis bilingual volume explores Cree Canadian artist Kent Monkman's five-part reimagining of Vermeer's Officer and Laughing Girl, through Monkman's Two Spirit alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle.\u003cbr\u003eKent Monkman is frequently inspired by museum collections, re-envisioning iconic works through a contemporary Indigenous lens. He explores themes of colonization, sexuality, loss and resilience-the complexities of historic and contemporary Indigenous experiences-across painting, film\/video, performance and installation. His gender-fluid alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, often appears in his work as a time-traveling, shapeshifting, supernatural being who reverses the colonial gaze to challenge received notions of history and Indigenous peoples.\u003cp\u003eIn this English \/ Canadian French volume, Monkman, as Miss Chief, is seated in his paintings across from a male figure in a room similar to the one in Vermeer's iconic Officer and Laughing Girl. The five paintings depict Miss Chief joined variously by a 17th-century Dutch officer, an 18th-century French explorer, a 19th-century American soldier, a 20th-century Catholic priest and a 21st-century tech executive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57630978834806,"sku":"9781913875787","price":20.53,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_41089126.jpg?v=1777590584","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781913875787-kent-monkman-officer-and-laughing-girl-lofficier-et-la-fille-qui-rit","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}