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Series: Footprints Series The Making of a Museum Hardcover Judith Nasby 9780228006206 $49.95 ART Aug 15, 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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Series: If You Want to Visit a Sea Garden Hardcover Kay Weisman 9781554989706 $18.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 5 - 8 Sep 01, 2020

Discover the wonder of ancient sea gardens on the Northwest Coast Sea gardens have been created by First Peoples on the Northwest coast for more than three thousand years. These gardens consist of stone reefs that are constructed at the lowest tide line, encouraging the growth of clams and other marine life on the gently sloped beach. This lyrical story follows a young child and an older family member who set out to visit a sea garden early one morning, as the lowest tides often occur at dawn. After anchoring their boat, they explore the beach,... + Read More
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Series: 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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Series: Early Snow Michael Snow 1947-1962 Hardcover James King 9781773270982 $35.00 ART Jan 28, 2020

Michael Snow is one of Canada?s greatest living artists, widely acknowledged as one of the most significant figures in twentieth-century Canadian art. Early Snow focuses on the nascent stages of the artist?s career?which is comparatively underexamined in art commentary and critical literature?and demonstrates how wide-ranging were his achievements in painting, drawing, sculpture, foldage, cinema, and photography. Snow?s first achievements may serve as a blueprint for his later career, but they also give ample proof of the creative heights he... + Read More
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Series: Gabor Szilasi The Art World in Montreal, 1960-1980 Hardcover Zoë Tousignant 9781895615395 $39.95 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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Series: 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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Series: 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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Series: 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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Series: 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 Kwakwa_ka_’wakw artist. His m... + Read More
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Series: 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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Series: 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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Series: Beau Dick Devoured by Consumerism Hardcover LaTiesha Fazakas 9781773270869 $30.00 ART Apr 30, 2019

"With this body of work, Beau intended to launch his most overt critique of a system that he knew was unsustainable, in favour of a return to the cultural values of his people, and his profound generosity compelled him to share these values as widely as possible." ? LaTiesha Fazakas Beau Dick (1955 - 2017) was celebrated far beyond his hometown of Alert Bay, B.C., for both his political activism and his creation of striking, larger-than-life carved masks inspired by the traditional stories of the Kwakwaka'wakw. Dick's multi-faceted engagement ... + Read More
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Series: 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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Series: Don Proch Masking and Mapping Hardcover Patricia Bovey 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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Series: 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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Series: 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 $65.00 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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Series: 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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Series: 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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Series: 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 ofcollecting by Mr. A.K. Prakash, and will weave the intricate... + Read More
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Series: The Good Lands Hardcover Victoria Dickenson 9781773270241 $60.00 ART Oct 24, 2017

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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Series: Yakuglas' Legacy The Art and Times of Charlie James Paperback Ronald W. Hawker 9781442626751 $39.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 14, 2016

Charlie James (1867–1937) was a premier carver and painter from the Kwakwaka'wakw First Nation of British Columbia. Also known by his ceremonial name Yakuglas, he was a prolific artist and activist during a period of severe oppression for First Nations people in Canada. Yakuglas’ Legacy examines the life of Charlie James. During the early part of his career James created works primarily for ritual use within Kwakwaka'wakw society. However, in the 1920s, his art found a broader audience as he produced more miniatures and paintings. Through a ba... + Read More
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Series: Kim Dorland Hardcover Katerina Atanassova 9781927958254 $45.00 ARCHITECTURE Oct 03, 2014

"Kim Dorland" explores the mind and work of one of Canada's most intriguing contemporary artists. Named Globe and Mail 'Artist of the Year' in 2013, Dorland has captured the public's imagination with his tour-de-force, visceral creations. His paintings are at once referential, material, psychological, beautiful, and uncomfortable, resulting in a body of work that is seemingly disparate but undeniably connected through its idiosyncratic - and maximal - use of paint in all its forms.
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Series: Emily Carr Collected Unabridged edition Paperback Ian Thom 9781771000802 $19.95 ART May 17, 2013

A smartly packaged, affordably priced collection of the works of a Canadian icon.Nearly seventy years after her death, Emily Carr's works continue to capture the grandeur of British Columbia's landscape and define our vision of the nation. The approximately one hundred works reproduced in this collection showcase the breadth of Carr's career, from early watercolours in Skidegate and Alert Bay on the northwest coast to charcoal sketches in mid-career to the stunning oils of trees, ravens, and mountains that characterized her later career.Beautif... + Read More
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Series: Traffic Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980 Hardcover Grant Arnold 9781895442885 $55.95 ART Oct 12, 2012

The first book to look extensively at conceptualism in Canada, published to accompany a touring exhibition. The most transformative art movement of the late 20th century, conceptual art became a global phenomenon long before it was popularized by a new generation of artists and institutions in the early 21st century. Its various manifestations in Canada, however, have remained a limited concern -- a whispered art history circulated among artists and writers primarily in alternative publications and artist-run centres. Traffic: Conceptual Art in... + Read More
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Series: Shore, Forest and Beyond Art from the Audain Collection Hardcover Ian Thom 9781553659297 $55.00 ART Oct 24, 2011

A stunning and diverse collection of artworks from the personal collection of one of Canada's premier art patrons.Gifts from private art collectors have played a vital role in building and expanding the Vancouver Art Gallery's collection. Shore, Forest and Beyond is an exhibition of 100 works gathered from the collection assembled by Michael Audain.The exhibition and this accompanying publication highlight the breadth of the collection, which includes:mid-19-century masks by Haida, Nuxalk, Salish, Tlingit and Tsimshian carverscontemporary First... + Read More
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Series: Glitter and Gloom | Éclat et obscurité The Sketchbooks of Herzl Kashetsky | Les cahiers de croquis de Herzl Kasetsky Hardcover Terry Graff 9780920674826 $35.00 ART Jun 11, 2011

Kashetsky documents domestic life, street life, urban landscapes, nature, and the stories of Holocaust survivors in his affecting, meditative work.Herzl Kashetsky’s rich, multi-layered works are deep explorations of the human condition. His meticulously rendered portraits, still lifes, and landscapes are intense explorations of identity and place. This profusely illustrated book features more than 150 drawings selected from Kashetsky’s 119 sketchbooks, ranging from portraits to landscapes, from streetscapes to interiors, from circles to lines t... + Read More
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Series: Inuit Modern Masterworks from the Samuel and Esther Sarick Collection Paperback Gerald McMaster 9781553657781 $24.99 ART Nov 08, 2010

A gorgeous retrospective on the transformation of Inuit art in the 20th century, mirroring the vast and poignant cultural changes in the North.In response to a rapidly changing Arctic environment, Inuit have had to cope with the transition from a traditional lifestyle to the disturbing realities of globalization and climate change. Inuit art in the latter half of the 20th century reflects the reciprocal stimulus of contact with Euro-Canadians and embodies the evolution of a modern Inuit aesthetic that springs from an ancient cultural context, c... + Read More
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Series: Nekt wikuhpon ehpit Once there lived a woman: The Painting, Poetry and Politics of Shirley Bear/Il était une fois une femme : la peinture, la poésie et la politique de Shirley Bear Paperback Terry Graff 9780920674789 $14.95 ART Jun 21, 2009

No present without the past. No equality without feminism.Nekt wikuhpon ehpit chronicles the sources, inspiration, and personal circumstances that have shaped Shirley Bear’s visual art, poetry, and political activism and presents the integral relationship amongst these important activities in her life.Countering the invisible silent status ascribed to Indigenous women by patriarchal history and convention, Bear’s primary focus has been the recovery of the feminine role in the ancestral life of First Nations culture. Featuring more than 30 repr... + Read More
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Series: Art of the Northwest Coast Paperback Aldona Jonaitis 9781553652106 $32.95 ART Aug 31, 2006

A seminal single-volume overview of the magnificent art of the Northwest Coast, with text from a distinguished authority augmented by full-colour images throughout.Art Of The Northwest Coast is a superbly illustrated and informed overview of the First Nations art of the Northwest Coast, covering the region from Puget Sound to Haida Gwaii to Alaska, and proceeding from prehistoric times to the present. Created in the spirit of the best-selling Thames & Hudson World of Art series, this groundbreaking volume provides an overview of the development... + Read More
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Series: Anthony Flower The Life and Art of a Country Painter, 1792-1875 | La vie et l'oeuvre d'un Artiste du Terroir, 1792-1875 Paperback Laurie Glenn Norris 9780920674604 $24.95 ART Mar 19, 2006

A romantic view of 19th-century Canada — a domestic complement to the work of Bartlett, Constable, and Kane.Anthony Flower (1792-1875) lived and worked in New Brunswick for most of his life. A farmer with a lifelong passion for art, he painted until his death at the age of eighty-three. His work opens a window on a time and place now gone. His paintings depict the life that he saw around him in rural New Brunswick and the events and scenes described in newspapers of the day.Anthony Flower’s art was among the first in New Brunswick to depict rur... + Read More
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Series: Art BC Masterworks from British Columbia Hardcover Ian Thom 9781550548082 $60.00 ART Sep 01, 2000

Art BC presents -- in full colour -- 100 outstanding works by 84 of British Columbiaís foremost artists. Finally, we have the much-needed history of the visual arts in British Columbia, one that also properly integrates our great heritage of First Nations art into the mainstream. In the introduction, Ian M. Thom outlines the art history of the province over the past century. He also writes clearly and thoughtfully about each work individually, setting it in context to reflect the times in which it was made, describing the artistís achievements,... + Read More
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Series: Art of Emily Carr, The Paperback Doris Shadbolt 9780888944412 $45.00 ART Nov 01, 1992

This book represents the culmination of Doris Shadbolt's long fascination with the work of Carr, a painter she views as one of the strongest and most individual of Canadian artists. It reflects more than a decade of meticulous research, and excerpts form Carr's own prolific writings have been skillfully woven into the narrative, combining with exquisite reproductions of over 200 paintings, charcoals and drawings, two thirds of them in colour, almost all of them specially photographed for this book. Never swallowed by the mainstream in art, Emi... + Read More
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Series: Northwest Coast Indian Art An Analysis of Form Paperback Bill Holm 9780888941725 $26.95 ART Apr 01, 1990

The masterworks of Northwest Coast Indians are admired today as among the great achievements of the world's primitive artisans. The painted and carved wooden screens, chests and boxes for storage and cooking, dishes, rattles, crest hats, and other ceremonial paraphernalia reveal a rare artistic virtuosity and document the unique involvement of these craftsmen with their environment. After many years of examining countless artifacts, from Bella Coola to Yakutat Bay, and after himself creating objects in the same style, artist-teacher Bill Holm m... + Read More