Through the art of Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, "The Seriousness of Play" explores the multiple forms, materialities and meaning of Haida Manga as it playfully mutates through repurposed automobile parts, large-scale public art projects, mixed media sculptures and two-dimensional painted and graphic forms. Haida Manga combines traditional Native Northwest Coast designs and form-lines with manga (or manhwa) to create a distinctive and dynamic artform for re-telling oral histories and addressing contemporary issues surrounding land, cultural memory, ecological destruction and the politics of belonging, ownership and identity.
- ISBN13 9781910433119
- Publish Date 2 March 2016
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 26 January 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Black Dog Press
- Imprint Black Dog Publishing Ltd
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 192
- Language English