Art - Canadian

The Great Exhibition Spiritualized is a book written by Henry Birch in 1851. The book is a detailed account of the Great Exhibition of 1851, which was held in London, England. The Great Exhibition was a grand event that showcased the industrial and technological...

Takao Tanabe celebrates the remarkable 70-year career of Takao Tanabe. Beginning with his training as an artist in Winnipeg and his subsequent development as a Modernist in New York, this career-spanning book takes readers through his period as an abstract artist on the Canadian...

In this intimate investigation of the artistic process, Lezli Rubin-Kunda explores the nuanced path of creative work and the way artists make sense of home and place within their art practice and their lives. Rubin-Kunda is a multidisciplinary artist who examines these issues in...

Making Believe responds to a remarkable flowering of art by Mennonites in Canada. After the publication of his first novel in 1962, Rudy Wiebe was the only identifiable Mennonite literary writer in the country. Beginning in the 1970s, the numbers grew rapidly and now...

This bilingual volume explores Cree Canadian artist Kent Monkman's five-part reimagining of Vermeer's Officer and Laughing Girl through Monkman's Two Spirit alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle.Kent Monkman is frequently inspired by museum collections, re-envisioning iconic works through a contemporary Indigenous lens, exploring themes...

Drawing on Philip Monk's extensive writing history, Genres High and Low includes essays from the mid-1990s to the present on Canadian and international artists; on the American avant-garde and underground culture of the 1960s and 1970s; on the origins of the downtown Toronto art...

Following two precious volumes of writings from the 1970s-90s Canadian magazine Parachute-- Museums, Art History, and Theory and Performance & Performativity--the essays collected in this third volume focus on photography, film, video and new media. These genres were discussed in some of the earliest...

Throughout her literary and critical career, Canadian writer Carol Shields (1935-2003) resisted simple categorization. Her novels are elegant puzzles that confront the reader with the ambiguity of meaning and narrative, yet their position within Shields' critical feminist project has, until now, been obscured.In Carol...

"Colleen Wolstenholme's work is cerebral and direct, esoteric and popular, easy to look at and hard to forget." -- Ray Cronin Colleen Wolstenholme: Hyperobjectivity showcases Wolstenholme's painting, sculpture, and installations from a career spanning more than thirty years. Taking its name from the idea...

Author: Blaise KolodychukISBN-13: 9798846695832Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/15/2022Pages: 178Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

Although best known as a prolific author of cutting-edge, widely respected writing about many areas of the law, ranging from the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, to torts, Métis rights, privacy, equality, environmental rights, and legal history, Dale Gibson (1933-2022) had a stellar...

This is the third book in the ART FOR YOUR IMAGINATION series, beautiful 8 x 10 inch books that are filled with vividly colored images. Each image was created with an arbitrary randomness that welcomes your interpretation. Part Rorschach, part cloud gazing (if clouds...

6x9 book, Novel, an imaginary story based on some real cues. extraordinary women in action where a crime is committed. love story between one of the criminal who wants to retire from action. And love story between a canadian inspector and a federal agent...

Within the pages of "Luscious Locks", artist Laurie M. Kapalka created 35 beautiful hand-drawn designs. Intricate and detailed each page is as stunning as the next. A variety of beautiful beaus with gorgeous locks grace the pages of this new adult coloring book. Bring...

Colin Campbell's pioneering video art inspired a generation of multimedia artists. While he produced more than fifty videos, including the influential Sackville, I'm Yours (1972), Hollywood and Vine (1977), and Bad Girls (1980), Campbell left an equally large impact through his advocacy. A dedicated...

Bridge of Moron is the great coloring book.To release your stress from the big day, sometimes you need to swear. Anyway, to swear in the front of people is not look good. This coloring book is the way to solve the problem and help...

Author: Naomi BoydISBN-10: 1976426863ISBN-13: 9781976426865Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/14/2017Pages: 26Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.11lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.05d

Coloring book with illustrations created by Patrick Hardy, father, illustrator, designer.Author: Patrick HardyISBN-10: 1975942450ISBN-13: 9781975942458Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/30/2017Pages: 40Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.08d

Explore Hamilton's vibrant art scene through the lens of identity and materiality.Hamilton Now: Subject / Object showcases the work of 17 contemporary artists from Hamilton, Ontario, in a stunning exhibition catalogue curated by Melissa Bennett. Delve into current cultural issues through thought-provoking images and...

TEA, SHADOWS, & SURPRISES is a collection of mini comics that explore motion, light, and the connective tissue between panels.This thirty page collection features three shorts that reveal the nature of identity, grief, and emotion.Drawn by Newfoundland artist Mandi Coates, this collection includes Tea...

Have you ever wondered about that old empty house or abandoned ruin? Who lived there and why did they leave? If the walls could talk, what would they say? If only you could look inside... Once Imagined takes you inside some fascinating houses, hotels...

Connoiseurs of stained-glass windows and frescoes have appreciated Guido Nincheri's unique work, which can be found across Canada and in New England. Although considered to have been the most prolific religious artist in North America, his work is not well known. The Art and...

P. K. Page-the celebrated poet-was also a gifted visual artist working under her married name, P. K. Irwin. The Art of P. K. Irwin charts the evolution in her art, detailing an expansive range of artistic influences, from the geographical and temporal, to the...

An exposition of the food chains of various ecosystems is interspersed with a fanciful bestiary of toucans and dragons, faeries and a unicorn and even includes a sympathetic depiction of polycystic ovary syndrome sure to strike a chord with the afflicted. In twenty-six short...

"Sound demands a listener, text requires a reader, and performance necessitates that others be present for the experience. Without those presences, the circuit isn't complete, the charge will not travel through, the work will not become active in the world." These words by Kaie...

Brushstrokes for Change is a brief biography of Canadian artist and women's rights activist, Mary Ella Dignam and includes many the artists who have enjoyed the benefits of her accomplishments, in the twenty first century.Born in 1857 in a small community she was a...

A bilingual chronicle of a sweeping artistic practice that relates history, memory and identity to the lived diasporic experience. Presented in French and English, this is the first monograph dedicated to Moridja Kitenge Banza (b. 1980), a Canadian visual artist of Congolese origin. Known...

Master engraver George A. Walker presents "The Life and Times of Conrad Black," a wordless biography of the Canadian-born media mogul. With 100 stunning woodcuts, Walker affords readers a glimpse of Black as a child, as a successful businessman, as a British peer, and...

Jarrett Heckbert's Metamorphadox is a wordless novel in which wood engravings tell a story of the perils of technological mediation to the ever-evolving human existence.Author: Jarrett HeckbertISBN-10: 0889843910ISBN-13: 9780889843912Publisher: Porcupine's QuillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/30/2016Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.60dReview Citation(s): Foreword 07/22/2016

When the video camera first appeared on the market, artists hailed the newly available equipment as the new pencil, the better canvas, the best eye of all. The medium was exciting and revolutionary: low-cost and low-tech; "everybody" was curious as galleries and museums hastened...

The definitive retrospective of the incredible career of one of Mi'kma'ki's most prolific artists, featuring 70+ colour images as well as essays from curators, art historians, Mi'kmaw artists and scholars. "Most of my subjects deal with family, searching, struggle, and strength... All these things...

In the mass media today, as well as in high art and academia, there seems to be what one recent magazine has called an "irony epidemic." This collection of essays considers irony in its Canadian literary and artistic context, with titles such as "Who...

Includes fifty drawings (ten reproduced in full colour) organized around the idea of a cage, presented alongside a prose commentary on the images.Author: Tony UrquhartISBN-10: 0889841144ISBN-13: 9780889841147Publisher: Porcupine's QuillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/1987Pages: 94Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 8.36h x 9.06w x 0.50d

This sumptuous, hard cover, art book provides a retrospective of Peter Hide's career as an internationally renowned sculptor - from the early 1970's when he burst onto the art scene in England, to his remarkable upsurge in Canada as one of our most sought-after...

Twentieth-century art has usually been analysed in terms of intellectual aesthetic principles. But several important artists of this century were motivated less by aesthetic ideas than by spiritual values. Ann Davis considers the work of five of the most dynamic and innovative Canadian painters...

For Canadian impressionist Mary Riter Hamilton, capturing the emotional landscape of battlefields and graveyards in the months after the Great War's armistice became an artistic calling and defined her work. A woman alone after the storm had passed, she found that her life after...

This book examines the various figures and interests involved in the design and construction of the Canada Pavilion and explores how it was used over the past sixty years to exhibit the work of Canadian artists and architects. This publication intends not only to...

Dream-filled landscapes, portraits, and abstracts in beautiful detail Amber Albrecht's work is rooted in magic, folklore, and postfeminist neo-romanticism. The newest entry in the Petit Livre imprint of accessible art books, Idyll comprises a series of paintings, silk-screened prints, and drawings. Much of Albrecht's...

"Silcox [is] a wonderfully lucid stylist . . . this definitive volume presents 400 supreme color reproductions . . . covering the entire spectrum of the proficient and prolific group's magnificent output . . . every painting is vibrantly, radiantly, and gloriously alive: a...

In See What I'm Saying? wood engraver Jim Westergard puts his artistic talents-and his wicked sense of humour-into play with equal effect, offering a series of visual interpretations of some of the more quirky words and phrases that pepper the English language.Author: Jim WestergardISBN-10:...

Author: Richard William HillISBN-10: 3791379232ISBN-13: 9783791379234Publisher: Prestel PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/26/2022Pages: 340Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.60lbsSize: 12.40h x 10.10w x 1.40d

Author: Jessica BradleyISBN-10: 1487103794ISBN-13: 9781487103798Publisher: Canadian Art LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2026Pages: 128Format: Hardcover

Here in his own words, is why artist Ed Bartram paints with the geological exactitude and passion that have made his artwork famous. Ed Bartram, printmaker, photographer and painter, has a special vision of Georgian Bay that has captivated his imagination for over half...

Follow these Canadian artists as they travel abroad and return home again, over a series of journeys taking place during the last decades of the nineteenth century to the turn of the twentieth. 130 masterworks by some 35 artists situate Canadian art within the...

Ben Woolfitt begins each day by drawing. Using graphite, silver and metal leaf and selected objects for frottage, Woolfitt plumbs the depths of his unconscious as he draws on each page of his books. Although best known for his large-format paintings, Woolfitt has completed...

From painters, weavers, sculptors, printmakers, makers of video and installation art, rug hookers, and beyond, Nova Scotia is home to some of the country's finest artists. Terroir showcases that talent and unearths its roots by exploring how local histories and traditions, the landscape, and...

This boook contains artwork by Apostoly Peter Kouroumalis(Toly A.K.) his style varies from iconoclast/cartoons, to minimalist, while experimenting with drawing with his left hand making child-like drawings, A deviation from realism was key to these projects, mostly because reality is too grim.Author: Apostoly Peter...

Hand Drawn Art Colouring Book Unique Hand Drawn pieces created for you to enjoy the relaxing, meditative and healing benefits of colouring. For best results colour with markers, pencils, crayons, gel pens, water colours and ink. If you would like more designs or order...

Catalogue of Drawings by British Artists and Artists of Foreign Origin Working in Great Britain, Volume 2, presents a detailed inventory of the British Museum's extensive collection. This volume focuses specifically on drawings, offering valuable insights into the artistic practices and cultural influences shaping...

David Askevold broke into the art scene when his work was included in the seminal exhibition Information at New York's MOMA 1970, which cemented Conceptualism as a genre. He later became recognized as one of the most important contributors to the development and pedagogy...