{"product_id":"kent-monkman-aimee-ng-9781913875787","title":"Kent Monkman: Officer and Laughing Girl \/ l'Officier Et La Jeune Fille Riant","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis bilingual volume explores Cree Canadian artist Kent Monkman's five-part reimagining of Vermeer's \u003ci\u003eOfficer and Laughing Girl\u003c\/i\u003e through Monkman's Two Spirit alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKent Monkman is frequently inspired by museum collections, re-envisioning iconic works through a contemporary Indigenous lens, exploring themes of colonization, sexuality, loss, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this English \/ Canadian French volume, Monkman, as Miss Chief, is seated across from a male figure in a room similar to the one in Vermeer's iconic painting. Five paintings depict Miss Chief joined by a seventeenth-century Dutch officer, an eighteenth-century French explorer, a nineteenth-century American soldier, a twentieth-century Catholic priest, and a twenty-first tech executive, respectively.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMonkman's artworks are held in the permanent collections of numerous institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Denver Art Museum; the Hirshhorn Museum; the Hood Museum of Art; the Heard Museum; and in Canada, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal; the Glenbow Museum; the Art Gallery of Ontario; and macLYON in France. Private collections that house his works include Art Bridges; the Horseman Foundation; the Tia Collection, the Carl \u0026amp; Marilynn Thoma Foundation; Forge Project; the Gochman Family Collection; the Sobey Art Foundation; and the Rob \u0026amp; Monique Sobey Foundation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Aimee Ng,Emma Hassencahl-Perley,Kent Monkman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1913875784\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781913875787\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Giles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Aimee Ng","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48659701760255,"sku":"9781913875787","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/kent-monkman-aimee-ng-9781913875787","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}