Art - Canadian

Contested Spaces investigates space and conflict in novels, short stories, life writing, and journalism from Canada and Qu�bec by asking how counter-narratives challenge geographies of exclusion from below.Author: Roxanne RimsteadISBN-10: 1442629908ISBN-13: 9781442629905Publisher: University of Toronto PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2019Pages: 360Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.50w...

In Alice Munro, Brenda Pfaus provides a unique and intriguing look at one of Canada's greatest living writers.Author: Brenda PfausISBN-10: 0919614531ISBN-13: 9780919614536Publisher: Dundurn PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1984Pages: 97Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.24d

Image making itself, can become a tool for learning similar to the reading of a book. The acquisition of the basic skills required for the paint/draw process are outlined as they aid the artist/reader in building awareness. Image search and process unite to philosophically...

Winner, Canadian Museums Association's Outstanding Achievement in Research Award Silver Medal Winner, IPPY Awards (Fine Art)A Toronto Star Holiday Gift Guide SelectionA Like Vision is a lavish celebration of the legacy of Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, Canada's canonical landscape painters. The...

Alphabet Soup is Volume 3 of a trilogy of books called A Winnipeg Boy's Imaginings. Alphabet Soup is a chockfull crock of the author's latest ink sketches, graphics, poems, mini-memoirs, and essays on architecture, public art, heritage conservation and the future of Canadian cities....

Alphabet Soup is Volume 3 of a trilogy of books called A Winnipeg Boy's Imaginings. Alphabet Soup is a chockfull crock of the author's latest ink sketches, graphics, poems, mini-memoirs, and essays on architecture, public art, heritage conservation and the future of Canadian cities....

This book is a record of the work of Thoreau MacDonald as a designer and illustrator. The basis of the catalogue is the collection built up by Margaret E. Edison since the early thirties, when TM began to be a leader in Canadian book...

Juvenilia is Volume 4 in a series of books called A Winnipeg Boy's Imaginings-a trilogy that mutated into a quartet. It is a smorgasbord of my latest poems, essays, ink sketches and graphics begot during the years 2024-2025. To justify the book's title, this...

Author: Barry PadolskyISBN-10: 1777866529ISBN-13: 9781777866525Publisher: Barry Padolsky Associates Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/14/2025Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.36lbsSize: 8.50h x 11.00w x 0.49d

Image making itself, can become a tool for learning similar to the reading of a book. The acquisition of the basic skills required for the paint/draw process are outlined as they aid the artist/reader in building awareness. Image search and process unite to philosophically...

Emily Pittman is a young and dynamic artist living and working in St. John's, Newfoundland. Her artworks in Sometime Homes Fill My Dreams are coupled with her poetic musings about the work, or about the inspiration for its creation. Author: Emily PittmanISBN-10: 195006509XISBN-13: 9781950065097Publisher:...

The Nurturing Darkness presents the art of Carol Bajen-Gahm as she meditates on the root cellars of Newfoundland. It consists of twenty-two mixed media abstract paintings in which she uses encaustic and oil paints, seaweed prints, netting, photo transfers and other media to distill...

By the early 1950s, art societies and academies held a tight grip on what could and could not be shown in their annual public exhibitions. Their juries were conservative tastemakers and rabid anti-modernists. Abstract art was rarely selected for display, thus robbing innovative painters...

Author: Melissa RomboutISBN-10: 1487103786ISBN-13: 9781487103781Publisher: Canadian Art LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/07/2025Pages: 128Format: Hardcover

Painting Victoria is a loving tribute to a storied city from one of its most dedicated living artists, Robert Amos, and makes a wonderful gift for enthusiastic locals and new visitors alike. When he first came to Victoria in 1974, local artist and art...

A cross-Canada journey into the studios of contemporary artists, revealing the studio as a vital window onto the thinking, learning, and creative processes shaping art today. Drawing on over one hundred studio visits and interviews with painters, this book offers a compelling exploration of...

A fresh look at what is going on in the world of Atlantic Canadian art.Materiality and Perception in Contemporary Atlantic Art showcases over forty contemporary works of art from Atlantic Canada, from established artists such as Freeman Patterson, Gerald Beaulieu, Dawn MacNutt, and Alan...

The Vernon Gallery of British Art, Volume 1, showcases a celebrated collection of nineteenth-century British paintings. This volume provides insight into the artistic tastes and cultural values of Victorian England through its detailed reproductions and accompanying descriptions.Originally housed in the National Gallery and later...

Famed musician and poet Scott Nolan has built a complex world out of paper collage, aptly titled Nolanville. Venture into the unnamed city's seedy underbelly, its scintillating skyscrapers and downtrodden cutout characters, as vulnerable as those real strangers that we pass on the street...

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...

Claude Monet, An Interview: 1900 (1900) is a book written by Thiebault-Sisson and Francois that provides readers with an insightful look into the life and work of the renowned French impressionist painter, Claude Monet. The book is based on an interview conducted with Monet...

Jewish Memorials in Rome is a book written by Rodolfo Lanciani that explores the rich history of the Jewish community in Rome through the examination of various memorials and monuments scattered throughout the city. The book delves into the cultural, religious, and social significance...

Close to the edge... contains seven essays and statements by Gerald Ferguson that define this important conceptual artist's approach to his art and his times. Beginning with his first works in Halifax in the late 1960s and ending with his statement for his last...

My book is about Aboriginal people in Pukatawagan, Home of the Mathias Colomb Cree Nation located in Northern Manitoba, Canada. Residents of Pukatawagan that have talent as Painters, whether they are traditional or glamours or neon 3rd effects. People are inspired or it comes...

A photographic collection that celebrates the tranquility of winter and the ingenuity of vernacular architecture. From a clear, straight-on vantage point and with a pictorial formality echoing the work of documentary photography pioneers Bernd and Hilla Becher, Richard Johnson (1957-2021) spent more than a...

"This book features work from every facet of a career that saw the Vancouver native . . . reach lofty heights in the Canadian art world." --Times Columnist Now available in paperback, this retrospective on one of BC's most famous artists features beautifully reproduced...

In 1891 J. Murakami travelled from Japan, via San Francisco, to Vancouver Island and began working in and around Victoria. His occupation: creating permanent images on the skin of paying clients. From this early example of tattooing as work, Jamie Jelinski takes us from...

A devoted and powerful champion of Canadian arts and culture, David Silcox has a life story dazzles with tales beyond the easel and canvas."An affectionate portrait of a man who -- through enthusiasm, charm and an unparalleled network -- had an extraordinary impact of...

"Missus couldn't run the studio without me," says Billie the dog. This perpetual calendar is much more than 12 pictures with spaces for notes. Join Emily Carr's faithful companion, Studio Billie, on this light-hearted journey through a year in his life. It's 1909 and...

Douglas' first US survey charts his global influence and innovation across 40 works and reimagines D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915)Since the 1980s, Canadian artist Stan Douglas (born 1960) has created films, installations, photographs and other multidisciplinary projects that address moments of...

In 1967, Montreal hosted Man and His World/Terre des hommes. By far the most successful cultural event ever produced in Canada, it was embraced by the public at the same time as intellectuals from Marshall McLuhan to Umberto Eco hailed it as a new...

One of Canada's best-known printmakers, David Blackwood (1941-2022) put onto paper an enduring vision of Newfoundland, where he was born and raised. His hauntingly beautiful images draw from personal and communal memory, local tradition, and dreams and legends to capture a way of life...

Author: Carolyn Bell FarrellISBN-10: 1487103557ISBN-13: 9781487103552Publisher: Canadian Art LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/08/2025Pages: 128Format: Hardcover

Using five case studies, Linda M. Morra explores the ways in which women's archives have been uniquely approached and shaped by socio-political forces.Author: Linda M. MorraISBN-10: 1442626429ISBN-13: 9781442626423Publisher: University of Toronto PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2014Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d

Author: Roald NasgaardISBN-10: 1487103689ISBN-13: 9781487103682Publisher: Canadian Art LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2025Pages: 128Format: Hardcover

Author: Gisèle LagacéISBN-10: 1926443837ISBN-13: 9781926443836Publisher: Udon EntertainmentLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2025Pages: 160Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.05lbsSize: 11.40h x 8.40w x 0.70d

Wieland specialist Johanne Sloan offers a fascinating new perspective on The Far Shore, making it more accessible by discussing Wieland's utopian fusion of art and politics, the importance of landscape within Canadian culture, and the on-going struggle over the meaning of the natural environment.Author:...

The Mill is the second of three projects to engage the resource industries of Vancouver Island (mining, forestry, and fisheries) through contemporary art and writing. This volume responds to forestry: a mobile industry of logging camps that follow the trees; prices that rise and...

Explores how the art world navigated North American free trade. The 1989 Canada-US Free Trade Agreement and 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement reinvented the concept of North America as a cohesive whole, united by free trade. But within the bold concept of continental...

The first collection on the lives of Latinx Canadian visual arts creators. Diffracting the North is the first book to collect and share the experiences and material realities of Latinx Canadian creators of film, media, and visual arts. Bringing together scholars, filmmakers, curators, and...

Explores the overlooked erotic art movement in Quebec after World War II. Following the Second World War, Montreal earned a reputation as a North American hotbed of eroticism due to its red-light district, nightclub scene, and pornography industry. Although this erotic environment had a...

Explores how the art world navigated North American free trade. The 1989 Canada-US Free Trade Agreement and 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement reinvented the concept of North America as a cohesive whole, united by free trade. But within the bold concept of continental...

Promises Kept transcends the typical art book, melding elements of autobiography, biography, and regional cultural history into a profound exploration of artistic meaning. Its unveiling has the potential to quietly, insistently, prompt a re-examination of Newfoundland Labrador's (NL) cultural and artistic landscape.At the symbolic...

Finalist, Ottawa Book Award (English Non-Fiction)A Globe and Mail's Spring Book Preview SelectionMolly Lamb and Bruno Bobak shot to prominence as war artists during the Second World War. Marrying shortly after the end of the war, they moved first to Vancouver and then, in...

In the first part of the twentieth century few women in western Canada had careers as artists; Pauline Boutal had three: 23 years as a fashion illustrator for the Eaton's catalogue for the graphic design company, Brigden's of Winnipeg, 27 years as the Artistic...

A curated collection of the best-of-the-best from renowned cartoonist Kevin Tobin -- Fly on the Wall captures some of the most iconic moments from Newfoundland's past and present with a recognizably sharp wit and a dose of the province's famous humour. Fly on the...

"[I] reject[ed] the idea that painting is autonomous, contained only within its four corners. I realized that painting has to interact with, and is always affected by, the space it is in." -- Jinny Yu JINNY YU: AT ONCE surveys artist Jinny Yu's last...

A personal and intimate perspective on one of Canada's most prominent 20th century multidisciplinary artists, who was once described as "abstraction's poet-philosopher." Charles Gagnon (1934-2003) was a painter, photographer and filmmaker considered by many to be an important figure in Quebec and Canadian art...

The Nurturing Darkness presents the art of Carol Bajen-Gahm as she meditates on the root cellars of Newfoundland. It consists of twenty-two mixed media abstract paintings in which she uses encaustic and oil paints, seaweed prints, netting, photo transfers and other media to distill...

Facing the monumental issues of our time.In a 2012 performance piece, Rebecca Belmore transformed an oak tree surrounded by monuments to colonialism in Toronto's Queens Park into a temporary "non-monument" to the Earth.For more than 30 years, she has given voice in her art...