Root, Deborah
ROOT, Deborah
ROOT, Deborah. American, b. 1953. Genres: Art/Art history. Career: Ontario College of Art, Toronto, course director, 1991-96. Member of board of directors of the magazines Fuse and Public. Publications: Cannibal Culture: Art, Appropriation, and the Commodification of Difference, 1996; (with W. Ra'ad) Entangled Territories: Imagining the Orient, 1998. Address: c/o Fuse, 401 Richmond St. W. Suite 454, Toronto, ON, Canada M5V 3A8. Online address: droot@web.net
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