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Mischief Making

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Art, and the Seriousness of Play

With Contributions by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
Foreword by Nobuhiro Kishigimi

A critical study of Indigenous artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas’s playful art.
 
In his distinctive Haida manga, Indigenous creator Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas combines the bold lines of traditional Haida art with the graphic vitality of Asian comics. Beautifully illustrated, Mischief Making traces the evolution and significance of Yahgulanaas’s hybrid playfulness. Addressing such serious concerns as global ecology, settler colonialism, and land-use politics with a mischievous style, Yahgulanaas’s stunning imagery disrupts expected storytelling and creates space for new ways of being and knowing to emerge.

160 pages | 117 color plates, 11 line drawings | 9 x 11 | © 2021

Art: Canadian Art

Native American and Indigenous Studies


Table of Contents

Foreword / Jonathan King

Introduction

Backstory

Haida Goes Pop! Playing with Formlines

Cool Media: The Art of Telling Tales

Culturally Modified: Precious Metals, Cars and Crests

Visual Jazz: The Adaptability of Forms

List of Works

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