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Series: The Horse that Leaps Through CloudsA Tale of Espionage, the Silk Road and the Rise of Modern ChinaHardcover
Eric Tamm9781553652694
$34.95HISTORY
Jul 30, 2010
Two epic journeys along the Silk Road, past and present, offer a riveting and cautionary tale about the breathtaking rise of China. On July 6, 1906, Baron Gustaf Mannerheim boarded the midnight train from St. Petersburg, charged by Czar Nicholas II to secretly collect intelligence on the Qing Dynasty's sweeping reforms that were radically transforming China. The last czarist agent in the so-called Great Game, Mannerheim, who would receive the name Horse that Leaps Through Clouds from the Chinese people he encountered, chronicled almost every fa... + Read More
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Series: RedA Haida MangaHardcover
Michael Yahgulanaas9781553653530
$28.95COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Sep 14, 2009
An innovative graphic novel, Red is the epic tale of a Haida hero, his rage and his quest for retribution. Referencing a classic Haida oral narrative, this stunning full-colour graphic novel documents the powerful story of Red, a leader so blinded by revenge that he leads his community to the brink of war and destruction. Set in the islands off the northwest coast of B.C., it tells the tale of orphan Red and his sister, Jaada. When raiders attack their village, Red, still a boy, escapes dramatically. But Jaada is whisked away. The loss of Jaada... + Read More
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Series: Chocolate WarsThe 150-Year Rivalry Between the World's Greatest Chocolate MakersHardcover
Deborah Cadbury9781553655749
$29.95HISTORY
Oct 08, 2010
The extraordinary and dramatic story of the chocolate pioneers -- as told by one of the descendants of the Cadbury dynasty -- ending with Kraft’s recent takeover of the empire. With a cast of characters straight from a Victorian novel, Chocolate Wars tells the story of the great chocolatier dynasties -- the Lindts, Frys, Hersheys, Marses and Nestles -- through the prism of the Cadburys. Chocolate was consumed unrefined and unprocessed as a rather bitter, fatty drink for the wealthy elite until the late 19th century, when the Swiss discovered a ... + Read More
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Series: Vij's at HomeRelax, HoneyPaperback
Vikram Vij9781553655725
$40.00COOKING
Aug 23, 2010
Delicious everyday Indian recipes from the authors of the multi-award-winning bestseller, Vij's. Pull up a chair -- Meeru and Vikram invite you to dinner. The owners of Vij's and Rangoli restaurants in Vancouver have an all-new follow-up to Vij's, the bestselling cookbook and winner of the Cordon d'Or Gold Ribbon International Cookbook Award. In Vij's at Home: Relax, Honey, Meeru Dhalwala and Vikram Vij show you how to prepare the recipes they eat at home, from vegetarian dishes that go from stove to plate in less than 45 minutes to seafood, po... + Read More
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Series: Painters ElevenThe Wild Ones of Canadian ArtHardcover
Iris Nowell9781553655909
$95.00ART
Aug 16, 2010
A visually stunning portrayal of the turbulent rise of Abstract Expressionism in Canada. Eleven Abstract Expressionist artists banded together in 1953 to break through the barricades of traditional art at a time when Canadian and European landscapes were about the only paintings collectors were buying. Hungry for recognition, raging against the art establishment that was shutting them out, they decided to form Painters Eleven, expecting they would gain attention as a group, rather than going solo. Following their first group exhibition in Febru... + Read More
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Series: I am a Japanese WriterPaperback
Dany Laferrière9781553655831
$22.95FICTION
Jul 30, 2010
A devilishly intelligent new novel by the internationally bestselling author and Prix M�dicis winner. A black writer from Montreal has found the perfect title for his next book: I Am a Japanese Writer. His publisher gives him an advance on the strength of the title alone. The problem is, he can't seem to write a word of it. He can scarcely summon the energy to put pen to paper, and so he nurses his writer's block by taking long baths, re-reading the works of Japanese poet Basho and engaging in amorous intrigues with rising pop star Midori and... + Read More
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Series: A Year of Living GenerouslyDispatches from the Front Lines of PhilanthropyHardcover
Lawrence Scanlan9781553654162
$32.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Apr 05, 2010
A Year of Living Generously follows award-winning journalist Lawrence Scanlan as he volunteers with 12 different charities, among them well-known institutions Habitat for Humanity, the St. Vincent de Paul Society and Canadian Crossroads. Drawing from first-hand experiences -- serving in a soup kitchen at "Vinnie's," the St. Vincent de Paul drop-in centre in Kingston, ON, to building houses for Habitat for Humanity in post-Katrina New Orleans, to teaching at a women's radio station in Senegal for Canadian Crossroads -- Scanlan tests the ideas an... + Read More
Following the success of Abstract Painting in Canada comes an introduction to the Automatistes, Canada's first avant-garde art movement Young and innovative, Montreal's Automatistes revolutionized painting in the 1940s. Living in the restrictive Quebec of the Duplessis years, painters, dancers and writers-led by Paul-Emile Borduas and inspired by the Surrealists-found freedom of expression in abstraction pursued through automatism: an instinctive, unpremeditated form of creating art. On August 9, 1948, the Automatiste painters published Refus g... + Read More
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Series: TruthbeautyHardcover
Alison Nordstrom9781553652946
$60.00PHOTOGRAPHY
Jan 16, 2008
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Series: The Retail GamePlaying to Win: A Guide to the Profitable Sale of Goods and ServicesPaperback
Albert Plant9781553653301
$24.95BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Aug 18, 2007
An indispensable guide to the art and business of retailing showing owner-operators how to avoid pitfalls, understand the market, master strategic planning and succeed in their venture, whether bricks-and-mortar or online. What does it take to start up, maintain and grow a thriving and profitable retail business? Learn from the experience of an expert, as Albert C. Plant provides both a sweeping overview of the Canadian retail landscape and a detailed, step-by-step approach to rewarding retailing for the independent owner-operator. This compreh... + Read More
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Series: Marxs Das KapitalHardcover
Francis Wheen9781553652496
$22.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Feb 08, 2007
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Series: Platos RepublicHardcover
Simon Blackburn9781553652656
$22.95PHILOSOPHY
Feb 08, 2007
Series: B.C. BinningHardcover
Arthur Erickson9781553651710
$50.00ART
Mar 01, 2006
A celebration of the life and work of Bertram Charles Binning, one of Canada's foremost artists, architectural innovators and arts educators-a seminal figure in the flourishing of the arts in British Columbia.Artist, educator and architectural innovator -- Bertram Charles (B.C.) Binning was all of these. From the early 1930s through the mid-1970s Binning was at the forefront of West Coast modern art, architecture and arts education. He is perhaps best known for the groundbreaking design of his Modernist home, which has been recognized by the Hi... + Read More
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Series: Means of EscapeA Set of StoriesPaperback
Hugh Brody9781550541083
$14.95FICTION
Aug 01, 1993
A need for place. A search for peace. a ceaseless quest, balanced by occasional respite -- physical,psychological or metaphysical. These are the preoccupations of our time, and they are fertile ground for the taut incisive prose of an accomplished writer. With Means of Escape, internationally acclaimed anthropologist, filmmaker and writer Hugh Brody makes a brilliant fiction debut.
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Series: A Good DeathPaperback
Gil Courtemanche9781553652151
$18.95FICTION
Aug 22, 2006
Following the worldwide success of A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali, Gil Courtemanche returns with a short, intimate, powerful second novel. A Good Death describes the everyday tragedy, horror, cowardice and love that lie at the heart of one family. On Christmas Eve, a family has gathered for the obligatory dinner. The father, only yesterday an imposing figure who terrorized his children, has suddenly fallen prey to Parkinson's and finds himself trapped inside a disintegrating body. Andre, the eldest child, is approaching sixty. He has never love... + Read More
Series: Inside GomeryPaperback
Francois Perreault9781553652144
$24.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Feb 15, 2006
In the wake of shocking revelations about the misuse of federal funds in the Sponsorship program, then Prime Minister Paul Martin took the unprecedented step of creating an independent commission of enquiry, to be led by one man. That man was granted extraordinary power to seek out the truth, asking tough questions and demanding real answers. His name is now indelibly part of Canadian history: Justice John H. Gomery. Gomery chose Francois Perreault, a veteran journalist, to be the Commission's public spokesperson, a move in itself extraordinary... + Read More
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Series: 13 WomenPaperback
Karlene Faith9781553651420
$24.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Dec 06, 2005
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Series: Thomas Paines Rights Of ManHardcover
Christopher Hitchens9781553652472
$22.95PHILOSOPHY
Sep 14, 2006
This engaging history of a university -- and an era -- traces the formative years of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC. SFU was born in a period of ferment and flux, when ideas about education were changing so rapidly and the western world was starting to feel the impact of student activism, the Civil Rights movement and opposition to the Vietnam War. Promoted as an open, innovative university, SFU attracted more mature students and far younger and more idealistic faculty than other schools. The stage was set for educational and political ... + Read More
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Series: McCarthy TetraultBuilding Canada's Premier Law FirmHardcover
Christopher Moore9781553651017
$45.00LAW
May 03, 2005
A comprehensive history of Canada's first national law firm: the people, the innovations and the unprecedented growth.McCarthy Tetrault is the largest and one of the most eminent of Canadian law firms, with offices in all the major business centres in Canada as well as in New York and in London, England. It is also one of the oldest, with roots going back 15 years, and has an exceptionally interesting and dynamic recent history.Noted historian Christopher Moore presents the story of McCarthy Tetrault and the firms that preceded it, within the c... + Read More
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Series: Return from AfricaPaperback
Wayne Grady9781553650980
$22.95FICTION
May 01, 2005
In Return from Africa, Francine d'Amour explores the parallel worlds of interior and exterior travel. Charlotte and Julien, a middle-class Quebecois couple, plan an extended trip to Egypt. After an argument, Charlotte tears up her ticket and refuses to go. Julien calls her bluff and leaves anyway, while Charlotte - too ashamed to remain among her friends - awaits his return in a rented bungalow on the outskirts of Montreal. In a long, rambling monologue to her departed lover, she imagines Julien's progress through the Middle East, recalls previ... + Read More
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Series: Snow ManPaperback
D Albahari9781553650997
$18.95FICTION
Jan 18, 2005
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Series: Adventures Of A Sea HunterHardcover
James P Delgado9781553650713
$35.00SOCIAL SCIENCE
Aug 04, 2004
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Series: The Book of SmallPaperback
Emily Carr9781553650553
$17.95ART
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... + Read More
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Series: LightningA NovelHardcover
Fred Stenson9781553650102
$32.95FICTION
Sep 01, 2003
The award-winning Western epic by "one of Canada's greatest living writers" (David Adams Richards) Lightning takes up where Fred Stenson's Giller-nominated and much-honoured novel, The Trade, left off. It is 1881, and the fur trade has been forced to make room for another economy. Seven thousand cattle are crossing the border from Montana into newly named Alberta. The openrange ranch era, Canadian style, is about to begin. Doc Windham, a Texan, is one of the cowboys trailing the herd.
Series: One Man's JusticeA Life in the LawHardcover
Thomas R. Berger9781550549195
$40.00BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 01, 2002
A Quaker thwarted by the government in her attempts to prevent her tax dollars from being used for military purposes. A man wrongly convicted as an habitual criminal. A girl rendered brain damaged and quadriplegic by a botched hospital procedure.Tom Berger may be best known for championing aboriginal rights, including early advocacy work that led to the precendent-setting Nisga'a Accord, bu the has also had a great impact upon a panoply of causes, often representing those not well served by the legal and legislative status quo. His clients were... + Read More
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Series: PlaceLethbridge, City on the PrairieHardcover
Geoffrey James9781550549317
$50.00PHOTOGRAPHY
Feb 01, 2003
Acclaimed photographer Geoffrey James spent months tracking the Prairie light while photographing the city of Lethbridge and its environs. His exquisite eye caught the changing seasons of a town and a landscape in flux. Those images, which have established his international reputation as one of the finest contemporary photog-raphers of our time, reveal something of a place, a sensibility and a harsh light that together probe to the core of the Canadian experience. The images formed the basis of a critically acclaimed exhibition, The Lethbridge ... + Read More
Series: First CrossingHardcover
D Hayes9781550548662
$50.00HISTORY
Sep 01, 2001
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Series: Being in BeingSkaay of the Qquuna QiighawaayHardcover
Robert Bringhurst9781550548266
$45.00FICTION
Aug 01, 2001
Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay was born in the Haida village of Qquuna about 1827. Crippled by an injury in middle age, he devoted himself to the art of telling stories. He could neither read nor write, and it is purely a matter of luck that his work survives. But so great were his talents that he remains the most important figure in all of Haida literature. In October 1900, Skaay dictated three works to a visiting linguist, John Swanron. Each of them a masterpiece of its kind. One is the legend of Skaay's own lineage. The second, "Raven Travel... + Read More
Series: Susan PointCoast Salish ArtPaperback
Gary Wyatt9781550548105
$39.95
Nov 01, 2000
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Series: Other Side Of EdenHardcover
H Brody9781550548068
$35.00SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 01, 2000
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Series: Spirits of the WaterNative Art Collected on Expeditions to Alaska and British Columbia, 1744–1910Paperback
Steven Brown9781550547122
$60.00ART
Jul 01, 2000
The images in the pages of this book -- animal, human and spirit faces -- evoke the powerful cultural legacy of the inhabitants of the Northwest Coast. Spirits of the Water presents 110 examples of the art produced by the Native peoples of a region of great linguistic, cultural and geographical diversity. Six essays by leading experts Paz Cabello, Ieoncio Carretero Collado, Alberto Costa Romero de Tejada and Bill Holm establish a historical and cultural context for this remarkable assemblage of objects, and explore the traditions of art, social... + Read More
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Series: Understanding Northwest Coast ArtA Guide to Crests, Beings and SymbolsPaperback
Cheryl Shearar9781550547825
$22.95ART
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... + Read More
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Series: I Am Sto: Lo!Hardcover
Keith T Carlson9780968157718
$36.00JUVENILE NONFICTION
Jun 01, 2000
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Series: Gathie FalkHardcover
Robin Laurence9781550547450
$75.00ART
Feb 01, 2000
For decades, renowned Canadian artist Gathie Falk has captivated the imagination fo the public. Her art reveals the extraordinary in the ordinary, the magic in the everyday, and the witty/surreal/poignant juxtapositions of the familar objects and sights -- such as apples, shoes, chairs, clothing, gardens, sidewalks, night skies and pieces of water.A wealth of 100 images -- 55 of them in full colour -- ad six essays reveal the significant threads in Falk's career: her ground-brekaing installations, ceramic sculptures and performance art of the 1... + Read More
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Series: Straw ManPaperback
D Poliquin9781550542691
$19.95FICTION
Oct 01, 1999
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Series: Krieghoff: Images of CanadaImages of CanadaHardcover
Dennis Reid9781550547252
$85.00ART
Oct 01, 1999
Cornelius Krieghoff, born in Amsterdam in 1815 and an immigrant to North America about 1835, is Canada's most famous nineteenth-century artist. The familiarity of his paintings may make it surprising that this book is published on the occasion of the very first retrospective exhibition of his work. We have known Krieghoff best for his affectionate depictions of everyday life among the habitants and First Nations residents of what is now Quebec. This project illuminates his considerable skill and narrative power as a painter, while revealing his... + Read More
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Series: Totem Pole CarvingPaperback
V Jensen9781550547474
$26.95ART
Aug 01, 1999
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Series: The Unjust SocietyPaperback
Harold Cardinal9781550544831
$22.95HISTORY
Mar 01, 1999
Aboriginal people in Canada took hope with the election of Trudeau’s Liberals in 1968. They were outraged when the Paper introduced by Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs Jean Chretien a year later amounted to an assimilation program: repeal of the Indian Act, the transfer of Indian affairs to the provinces, the elimination of separate legal status for native people. The Unjust Society, Cree leader Harold Cardinal’s stinging rebuttal, was an immediate best-seller, and it remains one of the most important ever published. Possessed of a wick... + Read More
Betty Goodwin is one of Canada's most accomplished and influential artists, and her powerful works about death, loss and the traces of life have influenced a generation of Canadian artists. "Her work is not a catalogue of distress," Anne Michaels writes, but "a record of hope in its most distilled form, potent and fiercely earned." To celebrate a careeer that spans more than fifty years, this beautifully produced book presents Goodwin's most important work as well as many early paintings and prints published for the first time.Born in 1923 in M... + Read More
Series: Bella BellaA Season of Heiltsuk ArtPaperback
Martha Black9781550545562
$45.00ART
Mar 01, 1997
Geographically and culturally, the Heiltsuk Nation lies at the centre of the Northwest Coast. The seven original Heiltsuk-speaking tribes inhabited the islands and fiords between Rivers Inlet and Milbanke Sound. Their neighbours were the Haisla, Tsimshian, Nuxalk, Oweekeno, and Kwakwaka'wakw people. Traditionally, Heiltsuk ceremonialists, canoe makers, and artists were greatly influential. Despite their significance, their art and culture remain mysterious.This seminal work focuses on Canada's premier collection of Heiltsuk art, The R.W. Large ... + Read More
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Series: Let the Drums Be Your HeartNew Native VoicesPaperback
Joel Maki9781550545272
$18.95LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Sep 01, 1996
Let the Drums be Your Heart brings together the work of more than forty aboriginal writers from all over Canada. concerned with family and days gone by, romance and adventure, tragedy and danger, these poems, short stories, articles and life stories ring with native pride and determination.As editor Joel T. Maki points out in his introduction, storytellers and historians have always played a vital role in aboriginal communities, ensuring that indvidiual cultures, languages, legends and customs would survive. In this book, as in his earlier anth... + Read More
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Series: Paterson EwenHardcover
Michael Ondaatje9781550545142
$65.00ART
Jan 01, 1996
Paterson Ewen is one of Canada's most accomplished and admired painters. He is famous for his monumental paintings of phenomena, powerful works that capture the grandeur of nature and extend the tradition of landscape painting in Canada. According to Michael Ondaatje, "Perhaps there is a balance and security in these precarious works because of the very fact that they seem to have been torn out of the heart and earth."Born in Montreal in 1925, Paterson Ewen was heralded as one of the leading modern artists in Quebec. In 1968, he moved to London... + Read More
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Series: During My TimeFlorence Edenshaw Davidson, A Haida WomanPaperback
Margaret B. Blackman9781550540246
$24.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Apr 01, 1995
This book is the first life history of a Northwest Coast Indian woman. Florence Davidson, daughter of noted Haida carver and chief Charles Edenshaw, was born in 1896. As one of the few living Haida elders knowledgeable about the culture of a bygone era, she was a fragile link with the past. Living in Masset on the Queen Charlotte Islands, some fifty miles off the northwest coast of British Columbia, Florence Davidson grew up in an era of dramatic change for her people. One of the last Haida women to undergo the traditional puberty seclusion and... + Read More
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Series: The Dunsmuir SagaPaperback
Terry Reksten9781550540703
$24.95HISTORY
Apr 01, 1994
The Dunsmuir Saga brings to life three generations of the legendary Dunsmuir family of Vancouver Island. Robert Dunsmuir -- canny, acquisitive and imaginative -- became the richest man in British Columbia; his sons struggled to consolidate the family fortune; his grandchildren spent it. Award-winning author Terry Reksten brings the members of the Dunsmuir family and their colourful saga to life with her lively writing, vivid anecdotes and careful research. A selection of 50 historical photographs depicts the Dunsmuirs and their grand style of life.
Series: Malaspina And GalianoHardcover
Donald Cutter9780888947154
$24.95HISTORY
Apr 01, 1991
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Series: Jack ShadboltHardcover
Scott Watson9780888946133
$60.00ART
Sep 01, 1990
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Series: Inuit ModernMasterworks from the Samuel and Esther Sarick CollectionPaperback
Gerald McMaster9781553657781
$24.99ART
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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