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Series: 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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Series: Echoes of the Supernatural The Graphic Art of Robert Davidson Hardcover Gary Wyatt 9781773271903 $55.00 ART Oct 11, 2022

Over six decades of brilliant prints and paintings from the most prominent Northwest Coast artist of his generation. Over six decades of brilliant prints and paintings from the most prominent Northwest Coast artist of his generation.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 Potlaches, carver of masks and totem poles, and performer and teacher of tradition... + Read More
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Series: A Dream in the Eye The Complete Paintings and Collages of Phyllis Webb Paperback Stephen Collis 9781772014334 $29.95 ART Oct 06, 2022

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, photocollage, and eventually painting. Webb’s visual work – a surprising... + 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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Series: 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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Series: Immune Nations The Art and Science of Global Vaccination Hardcover Natalie Loveless 9780993849770 $39.99 ART Jul 15, 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: The Art of Adam Young Hardcover Adam Young 9781550819397 $39.95 ART Jul 08, 2022

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 mediums of choice are acrylics and inks, and th... + 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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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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Series: 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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Series: 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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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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Series: 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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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: The Good Lands Canada Through the Eyes of its 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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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: Yakuglas' Legacy The Art and Times of Charlie James Paperback Ronald W. Hawker 9781442626751 $42.95 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 $22.95 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: 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: 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 Columbiaï¿½s 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 artistï¿½s achieveme... + Read More
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Series: Art of Emily Carr 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