Cover: Tim Hawkinson

Rococo Tattoo: The Ornamental Impulse in Toronto Art

Author:

Monk, Philip. 

Details:

The Power Plant:

Toronto, ON, 1998 (48 p.: 26 ill (17) col; 20 x 25 cm) 

ISBN:

0921047290

Price:

$15

A survey of Toronto art that mixes generations and disciplines combining the decorative and the inscriptive, the public and the private, the ostentatious and the subversive to reveal the concerns of the artists especially the obsessive impulse to adorn the body. Artists: Andrews, Stephen; Cesta, Carlo; Fastwürms; Flack, Robert; Fones, Robert; Gilmore, Barr; General Idea; Leach, Angela; Massey, John; Morris, Regan; Neighbour, Lisa; Noguchi, Louise; Penny, Evan; Schwarz, Judith; Thib, Jeannie; Walker, Douglas.