Jeanne Randolph (born 1943) is a
cultural critic, author,
performance artist and
psychiatrist
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whose work explores the relationship between art and psychoanalytic theory. She was the first writer in Canada to develop
Object Relations psychoanalytic theory as a medium for
cultural criticism
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She introduced "ficto-criticism" In 1983 as an unprecedented method for exploring the relationship between writing and an artist's work. In universities and galleries across Canada, England, Australia and Spain she has spoken on topics ranging from the aesthetics of
Barbie dolls to the philosophy of
Wittgenstein.
Books
Dr. Jeanne Randolph is the author of ''Shopping Cart Pantheism'' (2015), ''Joanne Todd'' (1989, currently out of print), ''Psychoanalysis & Synchronized Swimming and Other Writings on Art'' (1991), ''Symbolism and its Discontents'' (1997), ''Why Stoics Box'' (2006) and ''Ethics of Luxury: Materialism and Imagination'' (2007), and co-author of ''Semble: Lyn Carter, Ginette Legaré &
Jeannie Thib.'' She has contributed essays to books about art and artists including ''Subconscious City'', ''Susan Kealey: Ordinary Marvel'' and ''Robbin Deyo: Sweet Sensation'' among others.
Performances
Randolph's lectures evolved into performances that have been presented in venues including the
Dunlop Art Gallery
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Services
*Information and reference services
*Access to full text databases
*Community information
*Internet access
*Reader's advisory services
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's ''Space Camp'' (2000),
the
Banff Centre for the Arts
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(2004) and Gallery 1.1.1 (2008).
They have been described as, "extemporaneous soliloquies
hatilluminate and interpret traditional academic pedagogy, enacting criticism as a dynamic psychoanalytic and philosophical contribution to cultural objects".
References
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1943 births
Living people
Canadian performance artists
Women performance artists
Date of birth missing (living people)
Canadian women artists
Canadian women non-fiction writers