La position historique des artistes issus de l'immigration : le cas de Leopold Plotek
Leopold Plotek is a Montreal artist, born in Russia, who has devoted his artistic career to painting for nearly fifty years. Contrary to the interest demonstrated by the visual arts milieu to his work, art history has not yet acknowledged its importance. The description of his career, since the beginning of the 1970s until today, namely of his paintings as well as the exhibitions and the texts about them, fills part of this gap. An intercultural perspective presents Plotek as an artist coming from immigration and as an Anglophone in Quebec, and identifies factors, based on cultural identity and language, that in part explains his absence from art history, particularly contemporary art. On one hand, this study about his work gives a significant number of factual information: inventory of paintings, exhibitions, collections, catalogues along with periodical articles. On the other hand, it shows that the study of intercultural relations helps to demystify the belief that art history remembers artists primarily according to the quality of their works.
Leopold Plotek immigration Painting Anglophone