Howie Tsui: Friendly Fire - Softcover

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Howie Tsui is known his depictions of fabulous landscapes peopled by monsters and demons whose grotesque character is offset by the exquisite refinement of his work. This publication, co-produced with The Museum of Health Care at Kingston, documents new work overlaying the history of medicine with a critical commemoration of the War of 1812. Three essays explore Tsui's practice and the aspects of the War illuminated by his installations, including the psychological conditions of war, factitious diseases and self-injury, counter-narratives of conflict, ethno-political strife, medical theories and practices of the period, the uneasy relations between the British and their aboriginal allies, and carnivalesque representations of war in popular culture. Howie Tsui's work was included in the group exhibition Phantoms of Asia held at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.

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