1.
Series:
Dancing with Life
Recontextualizing Mexican Masks
Hardcover
Pavel Shlossberg
9781477326688
$55.95
ART
Feb 21, 2023
Rebalancing and reframing how Mexican folk dances and masks have historically been depicted, Dancing with Life takes a collaborative and participatory approach to center the voices of artists, dancers, and other community members involved in sculpting masks and performing the danzas. This book aims to address the imbalance in how Mexican danzas are routinely portrayed and discuss how contemporary Mexican culture and issues are incorporated into the styling and uses of the masks. While commercialization is commonly viewed as a threat to the mask...
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2.
Series:
Western Voices in Canadian Art
Hardcover
Patricia Bovey LLD, FRSA, FCMA
9780887550478
$49.95
ART
Feb 03, 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. ...
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3.
Series:
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...
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4.
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...
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5.
Series:
A Dream in the Eye
The Complete Paintings and Collages of Phyllis Webb
Paperback
Stephen Collis
9781772014334
$35.00
ART
May 23, 2023
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...
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6.
Series:
Devotion
Today's Future Becomes Tomorrow's Archive
Hardcover
Jarrett Earnest
9780921344575
$50.00
ART
Sep 27, 2022
Devotion: Today’s Future Becomes Tomorrow’s Archive, edited by Jarrett Earnest, contains essays and interviews, reproductions of notes, diagrams, works of art, and rare ephemera representing an archive of overlooked and excluded material. Queer people have had to create and maintain archives as alternate repositories due to systematic exclusion from traditional archival practices and institutions. Propelled by the editor’s meticulous collecting and explorations of experimental living practices and embodied materiality, this book is a beautiful...
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7.
Series:
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...
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8.
Series:
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 ...
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9.
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...
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10.
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...
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11.
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...
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12.
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...
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13.
Series: Native Art of the Pacific Northwest: A Bill Holm Center Series
Painful Beauty
Tlingit Women, Beadwork, and the Art of Resilience
Hardcover
Megan A. Smetzer
9780295748948
$54.00
ART
Grade (US) from 17
Jul 27, 2021
For over 150 years, Tlingit women artists have beaded colorful, intricately beautiful designs on moccasins, dolls, octopus bags, tunics, and other garments. Painful Beauty suggests that at a time when Indigenous cultural practices were actively being repressed, beading supported cultural continuity, demonstrating Tlingit women?s resilience, strength, and power. Beadwork served many uses, from the ceremonial to the economic, as women created beaded pieces for community use and to sell to tourists. Like other Tlingit art, beadwork reflects rich a...
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14.
Series:
Shifting Grounds
Landscape in Contemporary Native American Art
Paperback
Kate Morris
9780295749167
$48.00
ART
Grade (US) from 17
Feb 28, 2021
A distinctly Indigenous form of landscape representation is emerging among contemporary Indigenous artists from North America. For centuries, landscape painting in European art typically used representational strategies such as single-point perspective to lure viewers?and settlers?into the territories of the old and new worlds. In the twentieth century, abstract expressionism transformed painting to encompass something beyond the visual world, and, later, minimalism and the Land Art movement broadened the genre of landscape art to include sculp...
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15.
Series:
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...
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16.
Series:
Bill Reid Collected
Paperback
Martine J. Reid
9781771621151
$19.95
ART
Apr 30, 2016
In this third instalment of the Collected series, the work of Bill Reid is showcased with beautiful photographs of his many sculptures, carvings, jewellery and paintings inspired by the culture and themes of his Haida Gwaii heritage. Over his lifetime, Bill Reid created many historic pieces of art including the large bronze sculpture The Spirit of Haida Gwaii, nicknamed the Jade Canoe and displayed at the Vancouver International Airport, and The Raven and the First Men, a yellow cedar carving. Both are featured on the Canadian $20 bill. In ...
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17.
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...
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18.
Series:
Creation and Transformation
Defining Moments in Inuit Art
Hardcover
Winnipeg Art Gallery
9781926812892
$24.99
ART
Oct 12, 2012
The treasures of the world's largest public collection of Inuit art are revealed in this seminal history of art from the Arctic.The collection of Inuit art held by the Winnipeg Art Gallery, one of Canada's most important public galleries, is extraordinary by any standard: its geographic range, diverse media and size have brought international renown to the collection of some 11,000 artworks. The wag celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2012-13 and this book, as well as a major exhibition from January 24 to April 17, 2013, will feature many of th...
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19.
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...
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20.
Series:
Treasury of Tom Thomson
Paperback
Joan Murray
9781553658863
$26.95
ART
Sep 02, 2011
Tom Thomson's most influential paintings as chosen by his friends and collectors, illustrating a moving, untold story in Canadian art.In spring 1918, Lawren Harris and J.E.H. MacDonald, two members of the soon-to-be-formed Group of Seven, met in the Studio Building in Toronto. Their friend Tom Thomson had died the year before, and they determined to establish him as one of Canada's great artists. Most of his paintings and sketches were stacked up in the studio. They would select the best, mark their comments on the back of these works and make ...
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21.
Series:
Defiant Spirits
The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven
Paperback
Ross King
9781553658825
$24.95
ART
Jul 25, 2011
A Globe 100 Book of the Year for 2010 and shortlisted for the 2011 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. A Governor General's Award-winning author recounts the turbulent years during which a group of young Canadian painters went from obscurity to international renown. Beginning in 1912, Defiant Spirits traces the artistic development of Tom Thomson and the future members of the Group of Seven, Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A. Y. Jackson, Franz Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J. E. H. MacDonald, and Frederick Varley, over a dozen years i...
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22.
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...
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23.
Series:
Hundreds and Thousands
The Journals of Emily Carr
Paperback
Emily Carr
9781553651727
$19.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 18, 2006
FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1966, after the legendary artist and writer Emily Carr died in 1945, Hundreds and Thousands consists of her journals from 1927 to 1941. She began keeping a journal in 1927, when, after years of her work being derided and ignored, came unexpected vindication and triumph when the Group of Seven accepted her as one of them and encouraged her to overcome the years of despair when she stopped painting. Hundreds and Thousands is the sixth of seven books by Emily Carr to be published by Douglas & McIntyre in a completely redesigned ...
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24.
Series:
Christopher Pratt
Hardcover
Josee Drouin-Brisebois
9781553651451
$19.95
ART
Sep 20, 2005
Christopher Pratt is one of the handful of recognized artists who have defined Newfoundland in the eyes of the world. This fall, in honour of his 70th birthday, the National Gallery of Canada will launch a major exhibition to mark the occasion. With its emphasis on paintings from the past twenty years, this will be the first exhibition highlighting his recent production. Josee Drouin-Brisebois's text explores how Pratt interprets the geographical, social and political landscape of Newfoundland through his personal response to his surroundings, ...
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25.
Series:
Emily Carr and Her Dogs
Flirt, Punk and Loo
Paperback
Emily Carr
9781553650959
$9.95
ART
Apr 26, 2005
Emily Carr tells the story of her joys and tribulations raising Old English Sheep Dogs in Victoria -- especially Flirt, Punk and Loo -- from her decision to start a kennel to the sad day when she had to close it. In the 25 vignettes that make up the book, she brings the affection, loyalty and nature of dogs to life. Her writing is appealingly direct and honest, a breath of fresh air laced with humour and wry self-awareness. Reproduced for the first time are 12 of Emily Carr's lively drawings of dogs, which she put together in an entertaining ca...
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26.
Series:
Growing Pains
The Autobiography of Emily Carr
Paperback
Emily Carr
9781553650836
$19.95
ART
Mar 17, 2005
Completed just before Emily Carr died in 1945, Growing Pains tells the story of her life, beginning with her girlhood in pioneer Victoria and going on to her training as an artist in San Francisco, England and France. She writes about the frustration she felt at the rejection of her art by Canadians, of the years of despair when she stopped painting and of the unexpected vindication and triumph she felt when the Group of Seven accepted her as one of them. Carr is a natural storyteller whose writing is vivid and vital, informed by wit, nostalgic...
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27.
Series:
Book of Small
Paperback
Emily Carr
9781553650553
$17.95
ART
May 28, 2004
The legendary Emily Carr was acclaimed as both an artist and a writer. Her first book, Klee Wyck, won the prestigious Governor General’s Literary Award for non-fiction in 1941. The Book of Small is a collection of thirty-six word sketches in which Emily Carr relates anecdotes about her life as a young girl in the frontier town of Victoria. She notes: "There were a great many things that I only half understood, such as saloons and the Royal Family and the Chain Gang." The young Emily, who gave herself the nickname "Small," was an intense, obse...
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28.
Series:
House of All Sorts
Paperback
Emily Carr
9781553650546
$14.95
ART
May 28, 2004
Before winning recognition for her painting and writing, Emily Carr built a small apartment building with four suites that she hoped would earn her a living. But things turned out worse than expected, and in her forties, the gifted artist found herself shoveling coal and cleaning up other people's messes. The House of All Sorts is a collection of forty-one stories of those hard-working days and the parade of tenants -- young couples, widows, sad bachelors and rent evaders. Carr is at her most rueful, but filled with energy and an inextinguishab...
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29.
Series:
Souvenir of Canada 2
Paperback
Douglas Coupland
9781553650430
$29.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
May 10, 2004
Douglas Coupland gets Canada, and he has set out to re-invent his country with his particular brand of insight, humour and visual acuity. Heartfelt homage to Terry Fox. Nanaimo bars for the soul. Unforgettable railway images revealing the country's historic central nervous system. Startling photography from Chris Gergley, Ed Burtynsky, Geoffrey James, Roberta Bondar and many more. And a fetching double-headed Canada goose which will forever change the way you look at hunting decoys. Souvenir of Canada created a sensation when it was published...
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30.
Series:
Klee Wyck
Paperback
Emily Carr
9781553650256
$14.95
ART
Oct 01, 2003
The legendary Emily Carr was primarily a painter, but she first gained recognition as a writer. Her first book, published in 1941, was titled Klee Wyck ("Laughing One"), in honour of the name that the Native people fo the west coast gave her as an intrepid young woman. The book was a hit with both critics and the public, won the prestigious Governor Generals' Award and has been in print ever since. Emily Carr wrote these twenty-one word sketches after visiting and living with Native people, painting their totem poles and villages, many of them ...
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31.
Series:
Prints of Betty Goodwin
Paperback
National Gallery of Canada
9781550549256
$55.00
ART
Jun 01, 2002
Betty Goodwin's powerful works about death, loss and the traces of life have influenced a generation of Canadian artists. This superbly produced catalogue of her prints celebrates a career that spans more than fifty years. Born in 1923 in Montreal, Betty Goodwin was largely self-taught and made her breakthrough as a leading Canadian artist in the early 1970s. Her work is in the collection of many public art institutions in Canada and has been exhibited internationally, most notably at the 1989 Sao Paulo Biennial and in the international section...
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32.
Series:
Inuksuit
Silent Messengers of the Arctic
Paperback
Norman Hallendy
9781550548747
$35.00
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Aug 01, 2001
The mysterious stone figures known as inuksuit can be found throughout the circumpolar world. Built from whatever stones are at hand, each one is unique. Inuksuit are among the oldest and most important objects placed by humans upon the vast Arctic landscape and have become a familiar symbol of the Inuit and their homeland. In author Norman Hallendy’s forty years of travels throughout the Arctic, he developed deep and lasting friendships with a number of Inuit elders. Through them, he learned that inuksuit are a nuanced, complex and vital form ...
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33.
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 Columbia�s 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 artist�s achieveme...
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34.
Series:
Understanding Northwest Coast Art
A Guide to Crests, Beings and Symbols
Paperback
Cheryl Shearar
9781550547825
$22.95
ART
Jun 01, 2000
The first section of this book features an alphabetical list of words relating to Northwest Coast art, with definitions, descriptions and explanations and synopses of the major myths associated with them. As an aid to identification and understanding, many of the crests, beings and symbols are illustrated in the 6 black-and-white reproductions of contemporary works of art. The entries cover everything: crests such as Eagle, Dogfish or Dragonfly; ancestral beings such as Creek Woman or Thunderbird; mythic beings such as Raven, the Chief of the U...
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35.
Series:
Raven Steals the Light
Drawings by Bill Reid
Paperback
Bill Reid
9781550544817
$14.95
FICTION
Feb 01, 1996
An elegant reissue of a timeless collection of Haida myths, with a new preface by Claude Levi-Strauss. Ten masterful, complex drawings by Bill Reid are accompanied by ten episodes from Haida mythology told by Bill Reid and Robert Bringhurst. The result brings Haida art and mythology alive as never before in an English-speaking world. The collection includes, says Reid, "a good selection of bestiality, adultery, violence, thievery and assault, for those who like that sort of thing."
36.
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...
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37.
Series:
Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast
Paperback
Hilary Stewart
9780888942296
$17.95
ART
Nov 01, 1992
Bold, inventive indigenous art of the Northwest Coast is distinguished by its sophistication and complexity. It is also composed of basically simple elements which, guided by a rich mythology, create images of striking power.In Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast, the elements of style are introduced; the myths and legends which shape the motifs are interpreted; the stylistic differences between the major cultural groupings are defined and illustrated. Raven, Thunderbird, Killer Whale, Bear: all the traditional forms are here, deftly a...
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