Anna Banana: 45 Years of Fooling Around with A. Banana (2025)

Anna Banana
Anna Banana: 45 Years of Fooling Around with A. Banana
edited by Michelle Jacques
176 pages
Published : 2015
Hardcover
ISBN 9781927958292
8 ¼ × 9 ¾ 
Figure 1 Publishing
Distributed by Raincoast Books 
 
 
She’s gone bananas! Discover one of the country’s most intriguing, influential and unheralded artists in this groundbreaking retrospective of the work of Anna Banana.
 
Widely recognized and admired in countercultural communities, Anna Banana has been fearlessly challenging convention as Town Fool and Doktor Anna Freud, producing parodic publications, creating and exchanging artist’s stamps and other original artworks and staging banana-themed events that she documents for a network of like-minded artists around the world. It is this vibrant community of creative individuals that has both fuelled her work and embraced it, and it is their long history of communicating by mail— welcoming anyone interested in participating—that has laid the groundwork for today’s social media networks.
 
Anna Banana: 45 Years of Fooling Around with A. Banana is a compelling retrospective of the artist’s work and her place in art history. Like the artist herself, this remarkable book will enlighten, engage and surprise.
 
Michelle Jacques is former chief curator at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. She previously held positions in the contemporary and Canadian departments at the Art Gallery of Ontario. She has taught art history, curatorial studies, and art writing. She lives in Victoria, BC.