Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Self-destruction
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Self-destruction
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Alternate Title:
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Autodestruction
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Image View:
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Overall view, caribou antler end on stone spike driven into whale bone
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Creator:
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Manasie Akpaliapik (Native American sculptor, born 1955)
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Location:
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repository: Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Québec, Québec, Canada) 2005.490
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Location Note:
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National Battlefields Park; 179 Grande Allée Ouest; Pierre Lassonde Pavilion; Brousseau Collection of Inuit Art
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GPS:
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+46.801106-71.225064
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Date:
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1995 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Native American
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Style Period:
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Inuit (Canadian Arctic Native style); Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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sculpture (visual work)
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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whale bone; stone; caribou antler
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Technique:
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carving (processes)
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Measurements:
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29.6 cm (height) x 33.1 cm (width) x 35.1 cm (length)
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Subjects:
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abstraction; allegory; contemporary (1960 to present); Inuit
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Description:
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Akpaliapik was born in Baffin Island and lived with his family in Arctic Bay since 1967. His wife and two children were killed in a fire in 1980, after which Akpaliapik moved to Montreal and subsequently to Toronto. He learned carving from his family and started to carve professionally after 1980. In 1989, he received a government grant to study certain aspects of Inuit culture. He is also active in giving workhops about Inuit art. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-PEE-TEOA-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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