Art - Canadian

Born in 1926 in the fishing community of Seal Cove, British Columbia, in 1937 Takao Tanabe moved with his parents and six siblings to Vancouver. His life was uprooted in 1942, when he and his family, among the 22,000 Japanese Canadians dispossessed and displaced...

An interdisciplinary artist working across performance, video, photography and installation who has exhibited widely across North America and Europe, Schmidt is perhaps best known for performance expeditions and interventions into the natural world, which are documented in photographs, installations and videos. Schmidt addresses the...

An ambitious cross-disciplinary collection of essays on contemporary art and artists in Vancouver, home to one of the world's most celebrated and intriguing visual art scenes, and the subject of a major European exhibition in 2006. The book, which links Vancouver's reputation to the...

To commemorate its 25th Anniversary, the Or Gallery is co-publishing with Talonbooks a second, updated edition of Vancouver Anthology, edited by acclaimed artist Stan Douglas, first published in 1991. Featuring a larger format, new hardcover design and a new afterword by Stan Douglas, the...

River of Dreams celebrates the unique ways that Impressionism was practised by artists in Quebec, offering a close look at the work of such luminaries as Clarence Gagnon, Henrietta Mabel May, James Wilson Morrice, and Marc-Aur?le de Foy Suzor-Cot?. These artists documented the shoreline...

Dale Auger was a gifted interpreter of Cree culture, using the cross-cultural medium of art to portray scenes from the everyday to the sacred and dissemble stereotypes about Indigenous Peoples. His use of bold, bright colours in oil painting explore the intricate links between...

An intimately candid memoir about the ambitions, struggles, and achievements of one of Canada's most prolific and important modernist artists. Why do I paint? I paint because I must.But why must I? As Picasso would answer, why must a bird sing? I want a...

Impressions of Newfoundland showcases the island's landscape and people through fine art and reveals the stories behind the images. Impressions of Newfoundland showcases the selected works of photographer Ting Ting Chen's landscape photos and fine art portraits. As a newcomer to Newfoundland, she uses...

Raw, personal and political, John Scott: Firestorm; presents an artist's searing critique of modernity's capacity for industrial warfare and the machines that enable it. Scott produced paintings, drawings, and sculptures of what he called "engines of history," the hyper-masculine military and civilian weapons of...

The work of Alex Colville, O.C. (1920-2013), one of the great modern realist painters, combines the Flemish detail of Andrew Wyeth, the eerie foreboding of George Tooker and the anguished confrontations of Lucian Freud. Behind the North Americans stands their common master, Edward Hopper....

- Published to accompany a stunning exhibition at the McCord Stewart Museum. Montreal from 14 November 2024 to 17 August 2025A century and a half ago, extravagant costume balls and skating carnivals were the pinnacle of society's entertainment, bringing forth a kaleidoscopic array of...

From one of Nova Scotia's most colourful artists comes Colour Nova Scotia. This adult colouring book is 80 pages of some of the most beautiful and brilliant Nova Scotia scenes ever gathered in one book. Artist Julie Anne Babin presents you with the opportunity...

Aesthetics of Repair analyses how the belongings called "art" are mobilized by Indigenous artists and cultural activists in British Columbia, Canada. Drawing on contemporary imaginaries of repair, the book asks how diverse forms of collective reckoning with settler-colonial harm resonate with urgent conversations about...

In 1880 the Art Association of Montreal established the Spring Exhibitions, an annual event which played a critical role in establishing a widespread appreciation of Canadian art. When the Association became the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 1948, it continued to sponsor the...

"What I'm saying I'm painting, in effect . . . is the terror and beauty of life." -- Mashel Teitelbaum Mashel Teitelbaum's work often appears to be born out of creative tension -- between substance and void, between will and world, between natural beauty...

""The Mastery Of Oil Painting"" by Frederic Taubes is a comprehensive guide for artists looking to improve their skills in oil painting. The book covers a wide range of topics, from the basics of color theory and composition to more advanced techniques such as...

With an anthropologist's eye, Kiwanga imagines what occurs beyond the narrative of recorded historyBefore becoming an artist, Kapwani Kiwanga (born 1978) studied anthropology and comparative religion in her native Canada. This academic background informs her multimedia installations building off her research on racism, colonialism...

"If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw." - J.E.H. MacDonald To See What He Saw focuses on the Lake O'Hara work produced by English-Canadian artist and Group of Seven...

One of the oldest settlements in Canada, Halifax is the site of landmark firsts in Canadian art history, including the first public art exhibition and the first fine art association. Not only is Nova Scotia's capital steeped in Maritime history, it is also home...

The essays of artist Ian Carr-Harris, which span decades of critical thought and engagement. An artist, curator, critic, and teacher, Ian Carr-Harris has been a central figure in Toronto's art scene since the 1970s. By collecting his impressive output of essays, critical experiments, and...

"Ruth's work and this book give substance to any discussion on what it means to be Canadian. This book offers a glimpse of her unique perspective as an artist, moving from an Ontario farm through the collaborative craftsmanship of mainstream theatre to navigating the...

The deeply personal story of a milestone North American art collection. "There are many ways to collect art, many motivations and points of departure. In my estimation, Michael Audain's is of the socially beneficial variety: avid and personal enough to cultivate the eye, local...

Homespun: A Collection of Poems and Paintings from a Newfoundland Expat is a collection of writing, art, processing, and healing from the earliest part of my life in a beautiful province. I hope it inspires you on your journey, brings you peace and joy...

This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition Helen McNicoll. An Impressionist Journey at Mus?e National des Beaux-Arts du Qu?bec, Quebec City, Canada 20 June 2024 to 05 January 2025. Edited by Anne-Marie Bouchard, curator of Modern Art, the volume focuses on...

Sarah Maloney's Pleasure Ground: A Feminist Take on the Natural World is the first major survey of contemporary sculptor and textile artist Sarah Maloney, RCA. Recognized for her representations of botanicals and the human body, Maloney uses media ranging from embroidery to bronze to...

Now available in paperback, this handsome retrospective on one of BC's most beloved artists unveils photographs, sketches, and ephemera from the artist's estate.The reputation of E. J. Hughes in British Columbia is second only to that of Emily Carr. His paintings, collected by every...

For more than 20 years, Toronto photo-based artist Sara Angelucci has transformed found photographs and created images exposing the cultural and historical conditions outside the image frame. Her work brings attention to the social forces that generate the language of photography. Her series Aviary...

365 Arts for Kids: Drawing Book for kids: Large 8 X 10 blank, white, unlined, 100 pages. Freely to write, sketch, draw and paint. Start to be the young artist and designer with this drawing book ( Splendid Blank Journals)Author: Bob O' BeverlyISBN-10: 1975769899ISBN-13:...

The Sculptures of Michelangelo by Ludwig Goldscheider is a comprehensive exploration of the works of the renowned Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo. The book delves into the life and career of Michelangelo, providing an in-depth analysis of his sculptures and their significance in the art...

'Free Inside' is a portfolio art and writing by the late Canadian activist and prisoner Peter Collins, who spent 32 years behind bars for killing a police officer during a botched robbery. Collins was the kind of man you'd expect to find in prison...

Winner, Canadian Museum Association Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research -- ArtEmily Carr captures the natural and cultural landscapes of British Columbia like no other artist before or after her. This major volume, designed to accompany an exhibition organized by the Dulwich Picture Gallery...

What is the responsibility, or the task of the arts as we face environmental crisis? Ecologies in Practice is an edited collection of dynamic and multi-formatted contributions that explore the ways in which cultural production informs perceptions, communications, and knowledge of environmental distress in...

Aesthetics of Repair analyses how the belongings called "art" are mobilized by Indigenous artists and cultural activists in British Columbia, Canada. Drawing on contemporary imaginaries of repair, the book asks how diverse forms of collective reckoning with settler-colonial harm resonate with urgent conversations about...

"Joyce Wieland is one of Canada's greatest artists of the last half of the twentieth century." -- Pierre Theberge, director of the National Gallery of Canada. Joyce Wieland triumphed over what she called "obscene poverty" to achieve international celebrity as a painter, collagist, quiltmaker,...

Winner, Toronto Book AwardsMoving the Museum documents the reopening of the J.S. McLean Centre for Indigenous & Canadian Art with a renewed focus on the AGO's Indigenous art collection. The volume reflects the nation-to-nation treaty relationship that is the foundation of Canada, asking questions,...

In May 2016, Jon S. Dellandrea came into possession of a box of the last effects of an obscure artist, William Firth MacGregor. The contents of the box chronicled a major, and long forgotten, trial involving forgeries of the art of Tom Thomson and...

Hamilton Babylon is a fascinating study of the tension between art and business in the growth of the Canadian film industry.Author: Stephen BroomerISBN-10: 1442647787ISBN-13: 9781442647787Publisher: University of Toronto PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/05/2016Pages: 280Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.80d

What is the purpose of life? The purpose of art? What is the purpose of the artist? Jack Chambers probes these fundamental questions in his final piece of work - an unpublishable manuscript - 'Red and Green', now decrypted by author and curator Tom...

The fact that I paint what is perceived as subject matter is beside the point. For me, subject matter is only an excuse to observe abstract organic shapes and patterns where they exist in nature and push their shape-space relationships to the limits.This is...

This alphabet book is a celebration of the South Shore of Nova Scotia and the art of rug hooking.Crafted by twenty-five local artists, the unique rugs in this collection take inspiration from the natural world around them. The River House Rug Hookers meet regularly...

In this illustrated edition of Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, master wood engraver George A. Walker provides an uproarious reinterpretation of the classic poem as seen through the convex lens of contemporary American politics.Author: Lewis CarrollISBN-10: 0889844305ISBN-13: 9780889844308Publisher: Porcupine's QuillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/11/2019Pages:...

With its sweeping continental perspective, Frances Pohl's Framing America has long been hailed as the most progressive introduction to the history of American art, from prehistory to the present. The Fifth Edition builds on that reputation, increasing the diversity of artists and other Americans...

In 1949, Newfoundland and Labrador had a widely celebrated oral culture but little visual art. After entering the Canadian federation, recreational painters worked to create a venue for the display of art. The Cause of Art tells the story of the advocates, curators, and...

American Battle Painting, 1776-1918 is a comprehensive art book that explores the history and evolution of American battle painting from the Revolutionary War to World War I. The book is published by the National Gallery of Art and features a collection of over 100...

This is a shrink-wrapped four-volume set. Paul Kane has been called the founding father of Canadian art, and Wanderings of an Artist among the Indians of North America a classic of Canadian literature. Yet his studio canvases are stereotypically generic, and his book is...

This is a four-volume set with a slip case. Paul Kane has been called the founding father of Canadian art, and Wanderings of an Artist among the Indians of North America a classic of Canadian literature. Yet his studio canvases are stereotypically generic, and...

This publication is the first comprehensive book on the history of photography in Canada. It addresses an artform like no other: ever since its invention in 1839, photography has revolutionized the way that we understand ourselves and our country. From the moment the first...

The Illustrated Language Of Flowers is a book written by Anna Christian Burke and first published in 1856. The book is a comprehensive guide to the meanings and symbolism behind different flowers. It explores the history and cultural significance of flowers, and provides detailed...

Plague and Pestilence in Literature and Art by Raymond Crawfurd is a comprehensive exploration of the representation of epidemics throughout history. The book delves into the ways in which plagues and pestilence have been depicted in literature and art, from ancient times to the...

Berthe Morisot: Drawings, Pastels, Watercolors is a comprehensive collection of the works of Berthe Morisot, a prominent French Impressionist painter. The book features over 200 of Morisot's drawings, pastels, and watercolors, showcasing her mastery of these mediums and her unique artistic style. The works...