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1.
Being in Being The Collected Works of a Master Haida Mythteller Paperback Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay 9781771623759 $29.95 HISTORY Oct 28, 2023

Being in Being contains three masterpieces by legendary Haida mythteller Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay. The shortest recounts the high points of the legend of his family. The second, Raven Travelling, is the longest and most complex version of the story of the Raven ever recorded on the Northwest Coast. The third is The Qquuna Cycle, a narrative poem of nearly 5,500 lines, one of the true masterpieces of North American literature.Robert Bringhurst’s eloquent and vivid translations of these works are supplemented by explanatory notes that suppl... + Read More
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Nine Visits to the Mythworld Told by Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas Paperback Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas 9781771623773 $26.95 HISTORY Oct 28, 2023

In the Fall of 1900, a young American anthropologist named John Swanton arrived in the Haida country, on the Northwest Coast of North America, intending to learn everything he could about Haida mythology. He spent the next ten months phonetically transcribing several thousand pages of myths, stories, histories and songs in the Haida language. Swanton met a number of fine mythtellers during his year in the Haida country. Each had his own style and his own repertoire. Two of them—a blind man in his fifties by the name of Ghandl, and a septuagenar... + Read More
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Series: The Canadian Art Library Series Photography in Canada, 1839-1989 An Illustrated History 1st edition Hardcover Sarah Bassnett 9781487103132 $60.00 ART Oct 05, 2023

This publication is the first comprehensive book on the history of photography in Canada. It addresses an artform like no other: ever since its invention in 1839, photography has revolutionized the way that we understand ourselves and our country. From the moment the first visionary practitioners in Canada took up cameras to create portraits, capture landscapes, and record history, photographs have played a pivotal role in shaping national identity while offering compelling opportunities for creative expression.Photography in Canada, 1839–1989 ... + Read More
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James Clarke Hook Painter of the Sea Hardcover Juliet McMaster 9780228014454 $49.95 ART Oct 01, 2023

Though his father had faced bankruptcy, James Clarke Hook (1819–1907) nevertheless managed to paint himself into country-gentlemanhood, becoming famous for his landscapes of British coastal scenes and his ability to evoke not just the sights but also the sounds and even the smell of the sea. James Clarke Hook, Juliet McMaster’s lively biography of the brilliant but underappreciated Victorian painter, brings the reader through Hook’s rigorous training at the Royal Academy Schools, his travelling studentship in Florence and Venice, and his work a... + Read More
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Some Magnetic Force Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald Writings Paperback Michael Parke-Taylor 9781988111452 $64.95 ART Oct 01, 2023

Artist and educator Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald (1890–1956) was the only member of the Group of Seven based in Western Canada. Some Magnetic Force is the first collection to gather the surviving writings by the Winnipeg artist. Spanning from 1930 to 1954, the texts gathered here begin during the mature period of his artistic development at age forty and conclude with personal reflections late in life on the nature of art and his career. Michael Parke-Taylor has uncovered and chronologically organized FitzGerald’s letters, diary, lectures, and rep... + Read More
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Pictures on the Wall Building a Canadian Art Collection Hardcover Michael Audain 9781771623742 $60.00 ART Sep 30, 2023

The deeply personal story of a milestone Canadian art collection. “There are many ways to collect art, many motivations and points of departure. In my estimation, Michael Audain’s is of the socially beneficial variety: avid and personal enough to cultivate the eye, local and deep enough to generate knowledge. Would that his approach were more common. This generous book shows how it’s done.” (Marc Mayer, C.M., former director and CEO of the National Gallery of Canada.) Michael Audain’s passion for art began when he was a teenager, taping reprodu... + Read More
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Early Days Indigenous Art from the McMichael Hardcover Bonnie Devine 9781773272337 $70.00 ART Nov 28, 2023

A landmark publication bringing together more than seventy voices illuminating the rich array of Indigenous art held by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.Under the editorial direction of Anishinaabe artist and scholar Bonnie Devine, Early Days gathers the insights of myriad Indigenous cultural stakeholders, informing us on everything from goose hunting techniques, to the history of Northwest Coast mask making, to the emergence of the Woodland style of painting and printmaking, to the challenges of art making in the Arctic, to the la... + Read More
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A Dream in the Eye The Complete Paintings and Collages of Phyllis Webb Paperback Stephen Collis 9781772014334 $39.95 ART Sep 20, 2023

First collection of visual work by renowed Canadian poet Phyllis Webb * * A Dream in the Eye presents colour reproductions of the paintings and photocollages of renowned poet Phyllis Webb. A Governor General's Award–winning poet and a member of the Order of Canada, Webb was a major Canadian cultural figure from the 1950s through the 1980s, publishing ten collections of poetry and prose and co-founding the CBC Radio program Ideas (in 1965). When “words abandoned” her in the early 1990s and she was no longer able to write, she took up photography... + Read More
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Leaning Out of Windows An Art and Physics Collaboration Paperback Ingrid Koenig 9781773272177 $45.00 ART May 09, 2023

Art and physics collide in this expansive exploration of how knowledge can be translated across disciplinary communities to activate new aesthetic and scientific perspectives. Leaning Out of Windows shares findings from a six-year collaboration by a group of artists and physicists exploring the connections and differences between the language they use, the means by which they develop knowledge, how that knowledge is visualized, and, ultimately, how they seek to understand the universe. Physicists from TRIUMF, Canada's particle physics accelera... + Read More
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Making History Visual Arts and Blackness in Canada Paperback Julie Crooks 9780774890649 $50.00 ART Feb 15, 2023

Making History is an unprecedented and boundary-breaking exploration of Black history and art in Canada. It brings together poems, artist statements, art portfolios, and essays from scholars and artists, including NourbeSe Philip, Afua Cooper, Chantal Gibson, and Rinaldo Walcott. These showcase a careful and thoughtful understanding of Black aesthetics, while discussing the presence of Black contemporary art in Canadian institutions and offering perspectives on contemporary and historical art practices. The many voices and points of view within... + Read More
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Western Voices in Canadian Art Hardcover Patricia Bovey LLD, FRSA, FCMA 9780887550478 $49.95 ART Feb 13, 2023

The story of artists in Western Canada, and how they changed the face of Canadian art “Listen to the visual voices of artists. They tell us so poignantly who we are, what we must cherish, and what we must address as a society.” Patricia Bovey Throughout her remarkable career as a gallery director, curator, and author, Patricia Bovey has tirelessly championed the work of Western Canadian artists. Western Voices in Canadian Art brings this lifelong passion to a crescendo, delivering the most ambitious survey of Western Canadian Art to date. ... + Read More
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Place Matters Critical Topographies in Word and Image Paperback Jonathan Bordo 9780228013914 $55.00 ART Dec 15, 2022

A place comes into existence through the depth of relationships that underwrite somewhere, a spot, with layers of sedimented names. In Place Matters scholars and artists conduct varied forms of place-based inquiry to demonstrate why place matters. Lavishly illustrated, the volume brings into conversation photographic projects and essays that revitalize the study of landscape. The collection investigates place in such named sites as Colonus, Mont St. Victoire, Chomolungma | Everest, Hiroshima, Fort Qu’Appelle, Donetsk airport, the island of Lesb... + Read More
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Wetland Project Explorations in Sound, Ecology and Post-Geographical Art Hardcover Brady Ciel Marks 9781773271996 $45.00 ART Nov 01, 2022

"The Wetland Project is a beautiful, quietly amazing work of micro-post-geographical art that allows us to be wherever we are and somewhere wonderfully natural and real, simultaneously. It's an experience I wish everyone could have, and I wish there were more experiences like it." - William Gibson The Wetland Project book is the print component of a multidisciplinary and multimedia project centred on the sounds emanating from the TEKTEKSEN marsh, in unceded WSANEC territory (Saturna Island, British Columbia). The book is edited by artists B... + Read More
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Frances-Anne Johnston Art and Life Hardcover Rebecca Basciano 9781894906623 $55.00 ART Oct 18, 2022

This bilingual publication is the first-ever monograph on artist Frances-Anne Johnston, one of Canada's foremost painters of still lifes, flowers, and interiors.Exploring the extensive artistic career of this under-represented artist, the book also situates her within 20th-century Canadian art history and feminist theoretical contexts. In addition to beautiful colour illustrations of Johnston's work, this volume features critical essays, and an extensive exhibition history.Through primary research, curator Rebecca Basciano interprets Johnston's... + Read More
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Echoes of the Supernatural The Graphic Art of Robert Davidson Hardcover Gary Wyatt 9781773271903 $60.00 ART Oct 18, 2022

Over six decades of brilliant prints and paintings from the most prominent Northwest Coast artist of his generation.Finalist for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize, a BC & Yukon Book Prize Since leaving Haida Gwaii to study art in Vancouver - where he carved argillite with Bill Reid in a department store and hand-sold prints on the UBC campus - Guud sans glans, Robert Davidson has moved between two worlds. As a host of Potlatches, carver of masks and totem poles, and performer and teacher of traditional Haida songs and dances, he has been ... + Read More
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The Transforming Image, 2nd Ed. Painted Arts of Northwest Coast First Nations Hardcover Bill McLennan 9781773271989 $65.00 ART Oct 11, 2022

"An incredible archive of paintings by Northwest Coast artists, allowing the viewer to explore the creativity, energy, and depths these artists have achieved." - Robert DavidsonIn the two decades since its initial publication, The Transforming Image has become a must-have book for scholars and appreciators of Northwest Coast art, and, importantly, for First Nations artists, who have come to rely on its wealth of images and ideas. A new edition of this groundbreaking volume makes its invaluable findings accessible once again.Its hundreds of ... + Read More
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Janet Werner Sticky Pictures Hardcover Francois LeTourneux 9781773272023 $60.00 ART Sep 27, 2022

Sticky Pictures examines and celebrates the evolving work of Montreal-based artist Janet Werner. In her paintings, Werner builds a constellation of spatial and figurative explorations drawn from fashion magazines and art history to create collage-like composite figures that slip easily between articulations of beauty, gender, psychology and emotion. Werner's painterly operations are both unsettling and seductive, revealing the conditions of perception and looking as passageways to understanding the intensity of the world at hand. Werner's uni... + Read More
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Glory and Exile Haida History Robes of Jut-ke-Nay Hazel Wilson Hardcover Robert Kardosh 9781773271170 $50.00 ART Sep 27, 2022

Glory and Exile: Haida History Robes of Jut-ke-Nay Hazel Wilson marks the first time this monumental cycle of ceremonial robes by the Haida artist Jut-Ke-Nay (The One People Speak Of) - also known as Hazel Anna Wilson - is viewable in its entirety. On 51 large blankets, Wilson uses painted and appliqued imagery to combine traditional stories, autobiography, and commentary on events such as smallpox epidemics and environmental destruction into a grand narrative that celebrates the resistance and survival of the Haida people, while challenging ... + Read More
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Eli Bornstein Arctic Journals, 1986 and 1987 Hardcover Eli Bornstein 9781773271750 $40.00 ART Sep 20, 2022

In celebration of his 100th birthday, Eli Bornstein, in collaboration with author and curator Roald Nasgaard, has published a stunning work of personal reflection on a most transformative time in his life and career. Eli Bornstein: Arctic Journals, 1986 and 1987 is a tribute to the Canadian North, a meditation on artistic creation, and a window onto the ideological musings of Canada's greatest Structurist artist.Devoid of the mythologizing other artists have given their writing on the North, Bornstein's journals are introspectiv... + Read More
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Series: Towards an Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge Towards an Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge Volume II Excerpts from Chapter III - Miawpukek Hardcover Pam Hall 9781550819335 $79.95 ART Aug 31, 2022

Presented in English and Mi’kmaq, the latest chapter in this ambitious series presents a remarkable and respectful collaboration between an Indigenous and non-Indigenous artist, deepening and diversifying our understanding of the intergenerational knowledge of a Mi’kmaw community in Newfoundland. Miawpukek—The Middle River is Chapter III of Towards an Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge, the art-and-knowledge project of artist-scholar Pam Hall. This volume presents local, place-based knowledge gathered by Hall and artist Jerry Evans. From canoe-bui... + Read More
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Resilience Honouring the Children of Residential Schools Paperback Jackie Traverse 9781773635590 $24.00 ART Aug 31, 2022

Resilience is the third colouring book made up of works by Anishnaabe artist Jackie Traverse. As with her previous highly successful colouring books, Sacred Feminine and IKWE , this new book contains both drawings and paintings by Jackie. Resilience honours the Indigenous Peoples who were colonized by and endured the violence of Canada’s child stealing systems — residential schools, the Sixties Scoop and child “welfare.” Some Indigenous people survived those systems; tragically, some did not. Jackie and her art pay tribute to... + Read More
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The Art of Adam Young Hardcover Adam Young 9781550819397 $39.95 ART Aug 26, 2022

***THE GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLER LIST*** A colourful journey through Newfoundland and Labrador as seen through the distinctive, whimsical style of internationally renowned artist Adam Young. Highlighting the last ten years of Adam Young’s artistic work in Newfoundland and Labrador, this book features over 100 paintings and sketches based on the artist’s representation and vision of the Atlantic coast. Inspiration for Young’s work comes from the stark beauty of the landscape and architecture and the warmth of the people who live here. His medi... + Read More
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Immune Nations The Art and Science of Global Vaccination Hardcover Natalie Loveless 9780993849770 $39.99 ART Aug 22, 2022

This catalogue documents a multi-year art-science project called Immune Nations, produced on the occasion of its exhibition at the McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Initiated in 2014 and co-led by Steven Hoffman (York University), Sean Caulfield (University of Alberta), and Natalie Loveless (University of Alberta), Immune Nations brought together scientists, policy experts, academic scholars, and artists to work on an interdisciplinary and collaborative research-creation project tackling complex issues related to the use and ... + Read More
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Series: McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History Unsettling Canadian Art History Paperback Erin Morton 9780228010982 $55.00 ART Jun 15, 2022

Bringing together fifteen scholars of art and culture, Unsettling Canadian Art History addresses the visual and material culture of settler colonialism, enslavement, and racialized diasporas in the contested white settler state of Canada.This collection offers new avenues for scholarship on art, archives, and creative practice by rethinking histories of Canadian colonialisms from Black, Indigenous, racialized, feminist, queer, trans, and Two-Spirit perspectives. Writing across many positionalities, contributors offer chapters that disrupt colon... + Read More
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Gathie Falk Revelations Hardcover Jocelyn Anderson 9781773271897 $50.00 ART Jun 14, 2022

Gathie Falk: Revelations, published on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition curated by Sarah Milroy, investigates the career of a legendary Canadian artist.Now in her nineties, Gathie Falk was born in 1928 in Brandon, Manitoba, settling finally in Vancouver, where she established herself as one of Canada's most visionary and experimental artists. Flying horses, rows of potted conifers festooned with blossoms and ribbons, floating cabbages, piles of glossy apples, gentlemen's brogues presented in reliquary style, expanses of water, or bu... + Read More
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Series: McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History Jackson's Wars A.Y. Jackson, the Birth of the Group of Seven, and the Great War Hardcover Douglas Hunter 9780228010760 $65.00 ART May 15, 2022

A captivating account of the formative years of one of Canada’s best-known artists, Jackson’s Wars follows A.Y. Jackson’s education and progress as a painter before he was a well-known artist and his time on the battlefield in Europe, before he cast his lot in with a group of like-minded Toronto artists.Jackson fought many battles: he was a feisty and opinionated combatant when he crossed swords with critics, collectors, museums, galleries, and fellow painters as an emerging artist. Moving from Montreal to Toronto in 1913, he became a key figur... + Read More
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Series: McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History Wendat Women's Arts Hardcover Annette W. de Stecher 9780228010678 $49.95 ART May 15, 2022

For centuries, women artists of the Wendat First Nation of Wendake in Quebec have created artworks of intricate design and complex meaning in moosehair and quill embroidery. Their work records and transmits ancestral knowledge across generations of artists and remains a vibrant and important practice today.Breaking new ground in Indigenous art histories, Wendat Women’s Arts is the first book to bring together a full history of the Wendat embroidery art form. Annette de Stecher challenges the historical anonymity of Indigenous women artists by a... + Read More
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Knowledge Within Treasures of the Northwest Coast Hardcover Pam Brown 9781773270999 $60.00 ART May 10, 2022

Knowledge Within: Treasures of the Northwest Coast looks into seventeen of the numerous sites in the Pacific Northwest region with major collections of Northwest Coast material culture, bringing attention to a wide range of approaches to caring for and exhibiting such treasures. Each chapter is written by one or more people who work or worked in the organization they write about. Each chapter takes a different approach to the invitation to reflect upon their institution: some narrate a history of the institution, some focus on particular pieces... + Read More
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Something Cold and Hard Like Winter Paperback Shelley Niro 9780994036148 $19.99 ART Apr 26, 2022

Something Cold and Hard like Winter showcases the movement of time through large scale photographs and video. The works speak to the narratives that surround the earth and the longevity of its existence, the influence of capital gain on the environment and time immemorial. Niro thoughtfully reflects on the historical and explores how post-colonial mediums have had an impact on Indigenous people and the land. By looking at the surface of the earth we understand our interconnection and the importance of not taking what is there for granted. We ar... + Read More
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Dempsey Bob In His Own Voice Hardcover Dempsey Bob 9781773271613 $45.00 ART Apr 26, 2022

Dempsey Bob: In His Own Voice is based on the first full-scale solo museum exhibition of this extraordinary Tahltan-Tlingit artist, one of the finest living carvers of the Northwest Coast. Drawing from extensive interviews with the artist by the exhibitions co-curator, Sarah Milroy, the book presents the story of his life told his own way, including extensive and intimate reflections on the creation of particular works. Gorgeous photographs of the artworks, which are drawn from key private collections in Canada and public collections in Canada... + Read More
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Canadian Watercolours and Drawings in the Royal Ontario Museum Hardcover Mary Allodi 9780888545176 $39.99 ART Mar 31, 2022

This publication marks the third volume of two landmark publications of pictorial Canadiana. Continuing the tradition to detail Canadian material culture, the third volume of Canadian Watercolours and Drawings comprises artwork acquired by the Royal Ontario Museum since 1972. It is an investigation of Canada as the subject—through images of landscape, cultural events, or individuals who originated or settled here, or those who simply visited the country. The publication captures the striking imagery of Canada, as well as the fascinating circums... + Read More
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In the Present Moment Buddhism, Contemporary Art and Social Practice Hardcover Haema Sivanesan 9781773271644 $45.00 ART Mar 22, 2022

In Buddhist teaching, the concept of being in the present moment refers to a practice of living mindfully with full awareness of the world, including an awareness of the consequences of ones actions. It is a state of active presence combined with profound peace and joyful appreciation, each cumulatively embracing the potential of the eternal now. In the Present Moment: Buddhism, Contemporary Art and Social Practice explores how artists have variously grappled with the concept of being in the present moment by using their art practice to explo... + Read More
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Where the Power Is Indigenous Perspectives on Northwest Coast Art Hardcover Karen Duffek 9781773270517 $65.00 ART Oct 26, 2021

Where the Power Is: Indigenous Perspectives on Northwest Coast Art brings together contemporary Indigenous knowledge holders with extraordinary works of historical Northwest Coast art that transcend the category of art or artifact and embody distinct ways of knowing and being in the world. Dozens of Indigenous artists and community members visited the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia to engage with these objects and learn from the hands of their ancestors. The photographs and their commentaries speak to the conne... + Read More
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Bodies of Enchantment Puppets from Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas Hardcover Nicola Levell 9781773271545 $60.00 ART Oct 26, 2021

Puppeteers have enthralled audiences for millennia with their unique charm, not just telling stories but enacting history, sharing knowledge, and preserving culture. In this dazzling and immersive volume based on the 2019 exhibition Shadows, Strings and Other Things (UBC Museum of Anthropology), puppets from all corners of the globe are resplendent in striking photographs that illustrate texts from ten scholars and puppeteers. Bodies of Enchantment highlights still-vital traditional puppetry practices, as well as examples of modern adaptations ... + Read More
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Series: McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History Voluntary Detours Small-Town and Rural Museums in Alberta Paperback Lianne McTavish 9780228008699 $42.95 ART Oct 15, 2021

After visiting hundreds of museums across Alberta, Lianne McTavish chronicles some of the most challenging and unexpected sites where the idea of the museum is being reshaped. The concept of the visit as a “voluntary detour” encapsulates the way visitors travel along backroads to find small-town and rural museums, as well as the agreement to turn away from standard museum scripts when they arrive.Addressing themes of place, land, colonization, rurality, heritage, childhood, and play, McTavish reveals the museum visitor as multifaceted, with loc... + Read More
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Series: McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History Women at the Helm How Jean Sutherland Boggs, Hsio-yen Shih, and Shirley L. Thomson Changed the National Gallery of Canada Paperback Diana Nemiroff 9780228008736 $44.95 ART Oct 15, 2021

When Jean Sutherland Boggs was appointed to direct the National Gallery of Canada in 1966, she became the first woman to direct a major museum in Canada and the first to direct a national gallery anywhere in the world. The subsequent appointments of Hsio-yen Shih in 1977 and Shirley L. Thomson in 1987 built upon this milestone, creating a remarkable precedent for the Canadian and international museum world.Women at the Helm explores a transformative thirty-year period in the history of an iconic cultural institution through the careers of three... + Read More
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Series: Footprints Series The Making of a Museum Hardcover Judith Nasby 9780228006206 $49.95 ART Oct 13, 2021

Judith Nasby, founding director and curator of the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, animates the story of the gallery from its humble beginnings in the hallways of a university campus in 1916 to its latest incarnation as the internationally recognized Art Gallery of Guelph.The book is beautifully illustrated with eighty images of artworks in the permanent collection, beginning with the gallery's first acquisition, Tom Thomson's 1917 masterpiece The Drive, the last large canvas he painted before his tragic death. As curator, Nasby oversaw the creat... + Read More
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Uninvited Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment Hardcover Sarah Milroy 9781773271194 $60.00 ART Sep 07, 2021

A monument to the talent of Canadian women artists in the interwar period, Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment provides a full and diverse cross-country survey of the art made by women during this pivotal time, incorporating the work of both settler and Indigenous visual artists in a stirring affirmation of the female creative voice.
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Theatrum Mundi Masks and Masquerades in Mexico and the Andes Hardcover Anthony Alan Shelton 9781773271378 $60.00 ART Sep 07, 2021

Theatrum Mundi ("the theatre of the world) describes the diversity of masks and performances that originated from the violent struggles between European, Arabic and New World civilizations. This authoritative study celebrates over 500 years of Mexican and South American Indigenous dance dramas and explains how mask makers, religious practitioners, masqueraders and entrepreneurs have helped to continuously reinvent, revitalize and express the changing world around them. The culmination of four decades of research by Dr. Anthony Shelton, profe... + Read More
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Desire Change Contemporary Feminist Art in Canada Paperback Heather Davis 9780228009108 $49.95 ART Aug 15, 2021

In the resistance to the violence of gender-based oppression, vibrant – but often ignored – worlds have emerged, full of nuance, humour, and beauty. Correcting an absence of writing about contemporary feminist work by Canadian artists, Desire Change considers the resurgence of feminist art, thought, and practice in the past decade by examining artworks that respond to themes of diversity and desire.Essays by historians, artists, and curators present an overview of a range of artistic practices including performance, installation, video, textile... + Read More
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Under Different Moons African Art in Conversation Hardcover Anthony Alan Shelton 9781773271149 $60.00 ART May 25, 2021

Under Different Moons: African Art in Conversation shares - for the first time in print - the UBC Museum of Anthropology's extensive collection of brilliant objects from dozens of African cultures, gathered over nearly a century. These include masks from the Baule peoples of Cote d'Ivoire, the Bijogos people of Guinea Bissau, and the Dogon peoples from Mali; three Bamana / Bozo puppet sets from Mali and Burkina Faso, with floats, cloth awnings and related animal masks; and Benin panels and castings, Makonde sculpture, and Yoruba thorn carvings ... + Read More
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Everything is Relevant Writings on Art and Life, 1991-2018 Paperback Ken Lum 9781988111001 $54.95 ART Jan 31, 2020

Everything is Relevant: Writings on Art and Life, 1991-2018 brings together texts by Canadian artist Ken Lum. They include a letter to an editor, diary entries, articles, catalogue essays, curatorial statements, and more. Along the way, the reader learns about late modern, postmodern, and contemporary art practices, as well as debates around issues like race, class, and monumentality. Penetrating, insightful, and often moving, Lum’s writings are essential for understanding his varied practice, which has often been prescient of developments with... + Read More
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Early Snow Michael Snow 1947-1962 Hardcover James King 9781773270982 $35.00 ART Jan 28, 2020

Michael Snow (1928 - 2023) was one of Canada's greatest living artists, and one of the most significant figures in twentieth-century Canadian art. Despite his longstanding international acclaim, the nascent stages of Snow's career are comparatively underexamined. Early Snow focuses on the creative heights Snow had already reached by the age of thirty-three: wide-ranging achievements in painting, drawing, sculpture, foldage, cinema, and photography. Even as a young man, Snow's catholic interests in art and literature contributed to an uncanny ab... + Read More
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Gabor Szilasi The Art World in Montreal, 1960-1980 Hardcover Zoë Tousignant 9781895615395 $45.95 ART Dec 05, 2019

Born in Hungary in 1928, Gabor Szilasi is one of Quebec's best-known living photographers. Soon after settling in Montreal in 1959, Szilasi began photographing the many art openings that he regularly attended with his wife, artist Doreen Lindsay. Over the next two decades he produced an extensive photographic record of the individuals who comprised Montreal's visual arts community, a number of whom would shape the history of art in Canada. Expanding on a solo exhibition of Szilasi's photographs that took place at the McCord Museum in 2017, the ... + Read More
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Into the Light The Art of Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald Hardcover Sarah Milroy 9781773270968 $60.00 ART Oct 08, 2019

The first major retrospective of the last member to join the Group of Seven, L.L. Fitzgerald Into the Light: The Art of Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald, is a comprehensive and diverse examination of the impact and lasting influence of Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald, the last member of the Group of Seven, joining in 1932, and the only member to live in western Canada. Co-curated by Sarah Milroy, Chief Curator and Ian A.C. Dejardin, Executive Director of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the exhibition will present more than 200 paintings, drawings and... + Read More
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The Way Home Paperback David A. Neel 9780774890410 $32.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 01, 2019

David Neel was an infant when his father, a traditional Kwakiutl artist, returned to the ancestors, triggering a series of events that would separate David from his homeland and its rich cultural traditions for twenty-five years. When the aspiring photographer saw a mask carved by an ancestor in a Texas museum, the encounter inspired him to return home and follow in his father’s footsteps. Drawing on memory, legend, and his own art, Neel recounts his struggle to reconnect with his culture and become an accomplished Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw artist. His m... + Read More
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Emily Carr Fresh Seeing - French Modernism and the West Coast Hardcover Kiriko Watanabe 9781773270913 $40.00 ART Oct 01, 2019

A new look at the art of Emily Carr that explores the profound impact of her time spent in France early in her career, by two of our most distinguished writers on art. In 1911, Emily Carr returned from a sixteen-month trip to France with a new understanding of French Modernism and a radically transformed painting style, one that broke free from the artistic shackles of her conservative training and embraced a new means of expression. Her studio experiences in Paris, her en plein-air painting in the French countryside, and her encounters with s... + Read More
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Many Lives Mark This Place Canadian Writers in Portrait, Landscape, and Prose Hardcover John Hartman 9781773270944 $40.00 ART Oct 01, 2019

A unique book bringing together thirty-two of Canada's top authors and one great painter for a series of moving portraits in paint and prose Many Lives Mark this Place is a unique and brilliant project: portraits of 32 of Canada's finest authors, painted into their "home landscape," each accompanied by a short-but-powerful essay about how that place influences their life and work. Hartman travelled from Newfoundland to Tofino and visited tiny hamlets, our densest metropolises, remote beaches, Rocky Mountain peaks, and even a shopping mall, oft... + Read More
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Vikky Alexander Extreme Beauty Hardcover Daina Augaitis 9781773270937 $45.00 PHOTOGRAPHY Jul 02, 2019

A retrospective of one of the leading Canadian artists of the last three decades, featuring her photography, montages and installations Shortly after graduating from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Vikky Alexander made her 1983 entry into the international art world while living in New York by participating in photo historian Abigail Solomon Godeau's exhibition The Stolen Image and its Uses. For over a decade she was active in a circle of New York artists that merged the critical ideas of Minimalism and Conceptual Art with photography, a... + Read More
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People Among the People The Public Art of Susan Point Hardcover Robert D. Watt 9781773270425 $50.00 ART May 07, 2019

This beautifully designed book is the first to explore Susan Point's publicly commissioned artworks from coast to coast Susan Point's unique artworks have been credited with almost single-handedly reviving the traditional Coast Salish art style. Once nearly lost to the effects of colonization, the crescents, wedges, and human and animal forms characteristic of the art of First Nations peoples living around the Salish Sea can now be seen around the world, reinvigorated with modern materials and techniques, in her serigraphs and public art instal... + Read More
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On the Curve The Life and Art of Sybil Andrews Paperback Janet Nicol 9781987915877 $28.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 14, 2019

Sybil Andrews was one of Canada’s most prominent artists working throughout the late twentieth century. From a cottage by the sea in Campbell River, Andrews created striking linocut prints steeped in feeling and full of movement. Inspired by the working-class community that she lived in, her art is known for its honest depiction of ordinary people at work and play on Canada’s West Coast. Although she was raised in Bury St Edmunds, England, On the Curve focuses on Andrews’ life after she immigrated to Canada in 1947. Settling in Campbell Ri... + Read More
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Don Proch Masking and Mapping Hardcover Patricia Bovey LLD, FRSA, FCMA 9780887558344 $49.95 ART Mar 01, 2019

Since 1970, Manitoba artist Don Proch has built an astonishing body of work evoking a semi-mythical Prairie past and an unsettled and unresolved modernity. In his complex sculptures and life-size masks, Proch combines intricate draftsmanship with natural and found materials in surprising and transformative ways. Proch grew up in the farmland of north-central Manitoba. Using the rolling hills and unique parkland vistas of the Asessippi valley he creates a complex personal iconography based on prairie life, landscape, geology and history. The res... + Read More
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Dana Claxton Hardcover Grant Arnold 9781773270500 $40.00 ART Nov 06, 2018

Known for her expansive multidisciplinary approach to art making Vancouver-based Dana Claxton, who is Hunkpapa Lakota (Sioux), has investigated notions of Indigenous identity, beauty, gender and the body, as well as broader social and political issues through a practice which encompasses photography, film, video and performance. Rooted in contemporary art strategies, her practice critiques the representations of Indigenous people that circulate in art, literature and popular culture in general. In doing so, Claxton regularly combines Lakota tr... + Read More
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Tom Burrows Hardcover Scott Watson 9781927958889 $50.00 ART Aug 28, 2018

Tom Burrows, and the exhibition that preceded the book, presents work by the artist from his early career to the present. The book is a timely refocusing of attention on an artist who has made an immense contribution to the development of art in Vancouver, not only as an artist but as an educator and activist as well. Burrows first rose to prominence in the late-1960s and was included in several exhibitions at the UBC Fine Arts Library, an institution that was seminal in encouraging Vancouver's growing and now vibrant art community. In 1975 he ... + Read More
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Series: McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History I'm Not Myself at All Women, Art, and Subjectivity in Canada Hardcover Kristina Huneault 9780773553194 $75.00 ART Jul 16, 2018

Notions of identity have long structured women’s art. Dynamics of race, class, and gender have shaped the production of artworks and oriented their subsequent reassessments. Arguably, this is especially true of art by women, and of the socially engaged criticism that addresses it. If identity has been a problem in women’s art, however, is more identity the solution? In this study of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art in Canada, Kristina Huneault offers a meditation on the strictures of identity and an exploration of forces that unsettl... + Read More
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Laurent Amiot Canadian Master Silversmith Hardcover Rene Villeneuve 9781773270418 $55.00 ART May 08, 2018

Laurent Amiot was born in Quebec City in 1764, and after a first apprenticeship stayed in Paris for five years, just before the French Revolution, to perfect his artistic training. He returned to his hometown in the spring of 1787, acquainted with the latest European stylistic trends, mastering the art of composition and possessing a solid technique. He opened a workshop in the Old City the following year, inaugurating a fruitful practice that spans five decades. This illustrated catalog, containing some 80 works on display, is published on th... + Read More
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Apples, etc. An Artist's Memoir Paperback Gathie Falk 9781773270128 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 01, 2018

Gathie Falk is one of Canada’s most heralded visual artists: she has won the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, the Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts, and the Gershon Iskowitz Prize; she has been honoured with the Order of British Columbia and the Order of Canada; and her work is featured in major galleries across the country. From performance works involving eggs and bird feathers, to paintings of flower beds and night skies, to celebrated sculptures of fruit, men’s shoes, and dresses, Falk’s chronicles o... + Read More
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The Good Lands Canada Through the Eyes of Artists Hardcover Victoria Dickenson 9781773270241 $60.00 ART Apr 25, 2018

Fifty years ago, Canada celebrated its hundredth anniversary of Confederation. At Expo 67, in communities across the country, we celebrated our coming of age as a modern, bilingual, bicultural nation—a place where anyone from any culture could thrive. But beneath the applause and the cheerful music was a darker note. In his public address at the festivities, Chief Dan George lamented what Canada’s centennial did not celebrate: the colonization and marginalization of Indigenous peoples who lived on these “good lands.” Now in the year of Canada... + Read More
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Morrice The A.K. Prakash Collection in Trust to the Nation Hardcover Katerina Atanassova 9781773270180 $50.00 ART Nov 15, 2017

The Ash K. Prakash Collection of works by James W. Morrice offers an exciting journey into the personal and artistic explorations of the first Canadian painter who established an enviable career as an artist in Paris by the turn of the twentieth century. While living abroad for the rest of his life, Morrice also played a vital role in advancing modern artistic trends at the turn of the twentieth century in Canada. The in-depth collection of works will feature just over three decades of collecting by Mr. A.K. Prakash, and will weave the intricat... + Read More