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  • Stan Douglas: Ghostlight by Douglas, Stan
    Stan Douglas

    Stan Douglas: Ghostlight

    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...
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  • Expo 67 and Its World: Staging the Nation in the Crucible of Globalization by Moyes, Craig
    Craig Moyes

    Expo 67 and Its World: Staging the Nation in the Crucible of Globalization

    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...
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  • David Blackwood: Myth & Legend by Greist, Alexa
    Alexa Greist

    David Blackwood: Myth & Legend

    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...
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  • Tim Whiten: Life & Work by Bell Farrell, Carolyn
    Carolyn Bell Farrell

    Tim Whiten: Life & Work

    Author: Carolyn Bell FarrellISBN-10: 1487103557ISBN-13: 9781487103552Publisher: Canadian Art LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/08/2025Pages: 128Format: Hardcover
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  • Unarrested Archives: Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Canadian Women's Authorship by Morra, Linda M.
    Linda M. Morra

    Unarrested Archives: Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Canadian Women's Authorship

    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
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  • Eli Bornstein: Life & Work by Nasgaard, Roald
    Roald Nasgaard

    Eli Bornstein: Life & Work

    Author: Roald NasgaardISBN-10: 1487103689ISBN-13: 9781487103682Publisher: Canadian Art LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2025Pages: 128Format: Hardcover
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  • The Art of Ménage À 3 by Lagacé, Gisèle
    Gisèle Lagacé

    The Art of Ménage À 3

    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
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  • Joyce Wieland's 'The Far Shore' by Sloan, Johanne
    Johanne Sloan

    Joyce Wieland's 'The Far Shore'

    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:...
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  • The Mill by Birch, Jesse
    Jesse Birch

    The Mill

    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...
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  • Trading on Art: Cultural Diplomacy and Free Trade in North America by Smith, Sarah E. K.
    Sarah E. K. Smith

    Trading on Art: Cultural Diplomacy and Free Trade in North America

    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...
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  • Diffracting the North: Contemporary Latinx Canadian Experiences and Practices in Film, New Media, and Visual Arts by Aceves Sepúlveda, Gabriela
    Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda

    Diffracting the North: Contemporary Latinx Canadian Experiences and Practices in Film, New Media, and Visual Arts

    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...
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  • The Pornographic Delicatessen: Mid-Century Montreal's Erotic Art, Media, and Spaces by Purvis, Matthew
    Matthew Purvis

    The Pornographic Delicatessen: Mid-Century Montreal's Erotic Art, Media, and Spaces

    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...
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  • Trading on Art: Cultural Diplomacy and Free Trade in North America by Smith, Sarah E. K.
    Sarah E. K. Smith

    Trading on Art: Cultural Diplomacy and Free Trade in North America

    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...
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  • Promises Kept by Fillière
    Fillière

    Promises Kept

    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...
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  • Anything But a Still Life: The Art and Lives of Molly Lamb and Bruno Bobak by Greenfield, Nathan
    Nathan Greenfield

    Anything But a Still Life: The Art and Lives of Molly Lamb and Bruno Bobak

    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...
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  • Colour Nova Scotia by Babin, Julie Anne
    Julie Anne Babin

    Colour Nova Scotia

    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...
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  • Pauline Boutal: An Artist's Destiny, 1894-1992 by Duguay, Louise
    Louise Duguay

    Pauline Boutal: An Artist's Destiny, 1894-1992

    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...
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  • Fly on the Wall: The Best of Kevin Tobin by Tobin, Kevin
    Kevin Tobin

    Fly on the Wall: The Best of Kevin Tobin

    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...
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  • Jinny Yu: At Once ] ? La Fois by Flores, Patrick
    Patrick Flores

    Jinny Yu: At Once ] ? La Fois

    "[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...
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  • Inuit Prints: Japanese Inspiration by Vorano, Norman
    Norman Vorano

    Inuit Prints: Japanese Inspiration

    Some fifty years ago, the remote Arctic community of Cape Dorset was introduced to the ancient traditions of Japanese printmaking by a Canadian artist, James Houston, who had studied printmaking in Japan with the revered master printmaker Un'ichi Hiratsuka. The remarkable story of that...
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  • The Berliner Ensemble Thanks You All by Dzama, Marcel
    Marcel Dzama

    The Berliner Ensemble Thanks You All

    With The Berlin Years, Marcel Dzama's visions of elegant, enigmatic bears, bats, and sexy ladies were delivered to a slumbering nation. Now, The Berliner Ensemble Thanks You All provides entirely new artwork for an eager audience. The book ? actually a redesigned envelope with...
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  • Charles Gagnon: The Colour of Time, the Sound of Space by Nasgaard, Roald
    Roald Nasgaard

    Charles Gagnon: The Colour of Time, the Sound of Space

    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...
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  • The Nurturing Darkness by Bajen-Gahm, Carol
    Carol Bajen-Gahm

    The Nurturing Darkness

    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...
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  • Rebecca Belmore: Facing the Monumental by Nanibush, Wanda
    Wanda Nanibush

    Rebecca Belmore: Facing the Monumental

    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...
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  • Baroque Splendour by Reynolds, James
    James Reynolds

    Baroque Splendour

    Baroque Splendour is a comprehensive book that explores the art and architecture of the Baroque period. Written by James Reynolds, an expert in the field, this book provides an in-depth look at the Baroque style, which emerged in Europe in the 17th century and...
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  • Scene: How the 1960s Transformed Canadian Art by Malcolmson, Harry
    Harry Malcolmson

    Scene: How the 1960s Transformed Canadian Art

    The 1960s transformed art in Canada. The Scene traces the remarkable reshaping of the Canadian art landscape during that era. Written by renowned art critic Harry Malcolmson, the book offers a captivating insider's perspective on how a surge of artists, galleries, collectors, and critics...
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  • The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson by Walker, George A.
    George A. Walker

    The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson

    In master engraver George A. Walker's newest work, The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson, the circumstances surrounding the death and disappearance of the iconic Canadian artist are explored through some one hundred and nine wood engravings, creating a work that eulogizes not only the...
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  • Light Years: The Phil Lind Gift by Welch, Adam
    Adam Welch

    Light Years: The Phil Lind Gift

    An avid supporter of the Vancouver School of conceptual photography, prodigious contemporary art collector Phil Lind (1943-2023) was drawn to artworks that shone a light on social and political histories. Steeped in conceptual art, Phil Lind's collecting impulses drew him to photographs, paintings, and...
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  • Timeless Forms by Macnutt, Dawn
    Dawn Macnutt

    Timeless Forms

    Beauty and frailty: these are the two sides of the human condition that have informed Nova Scotian artist Dawn MacNutt's evocative work for more than 45 years. Working throughout her career with both bronze forms and natural materials like willow, seagrass, and hemp, MacNutt...
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  • Joyce Wieland: Heart on by Grace, Anne
    Anne Grace

    Joyce Wieland: Heart on

    Bold, audacious, and colourful, Joyce Wieland was the first woman living artist to have a solo exhibition at both the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario. She was a major figure in the avant-garde film scene of the 1960s and...
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  • Alex Colville: The Observer Observed by Cheetham, Mark
    Mark Cheetham

    Alex Colville: The Observer Observed

    In this illustrated biography of painter Alex Colville, Mark A. Cheetham charts the prodigious life and career of one of Canada's best-known artists. Both artist and public figure, Colville engages many worlds at once: painting and politics, creativity and business. He has been given...
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  • Takao Tanabe: Life & Work by Thom, Ian
    Ian Thom

    Takao Tanabe: Life & Work

    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...
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  • Kevin Schmidt by Prince, Nigel
    Nigel Prince

    Kevin Schmidt

    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...
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  • Vancouver Art & Economies by O'Brian, Melanie
    Melanie O'Brian

    Vancouver Art & Economies

    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...
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  • Vancouver Anthology by Douglas, Stan
    Stan Douglas

    Vancouver Anthology

    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...
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  • River of Dreams: Impressionism on the St. Lawrence by Bouchard, Anne-Marie
    Anne-Marie Bouchard

    River of Dreams: Impressionism on the St. Lawrence

    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...
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  • Medicine Paint: The Art of Dale Auger by Auger, Dale
    Dale Auger

    Medicine Paint: The Art of Dale Auger

    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...
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  • Susan M. Mertens

    Jack Shadbolt: In His Words

    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...
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  • Impressions of Newfoundland: The Art of Ting Ting Chen by Chen, Ting Ting
    Ting Ting Chen

    Impressions of Newfoundland: The Art of Ting Ting Chen

    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...
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  • John Scott: Firestorm by O'Brian, John
    John O'Brian

    John Scott: Firestorm

    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...
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  • Mystery of the Real by Meyers
    Meyers

    Mystery of the Real

    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....
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  • Costume Balls by Cooper, Cynthia
    Cynthia Cooper

    Costume Balls

    - 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...
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  • Aesthetics of Repair: Indigenous Art and the Form of Reconciliation by Kisin, Eugenia
    Eugenia Kisin

    Aesthetics of Repair: Indigenous Art and the Form of Reconciliation

    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...
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  • Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Formerly Art Association of Montreal: Spring Exhibitions 1880-1970 by McMann, Evelyn de R.
    Evelyn de R. McMann

    Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Formerly Art Association of Montreal: Spring Exhibitions 1880-1970

    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...
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  • Mashel Teitelbaum: Terror and Beauty by Kear, Andrew
    Andrew Kear

    Mashel Teitelbaum: Terror and Beauty

    "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...
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  • The Mastery of Oil Painting by Taubes, Frederic
    Frederic Taubes

    The Mastery of Oil Painting

    ""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...
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  • Kapwani Kiwanga: The Length of the Horizon by Kiwanga, Kapwani
    Kapwani Kiwanga

    Kapwani Kiwanga: The Length of the Horizon

    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...
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  • Halifax Art & Artists: An Illustrated History by Cronin, Ray
    Ray Cronin

    Halifax Art & Artists: An Illustrated History

    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...
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  • Tracings: Writing Art, 1975-2020 by Carr-Harris, Ian
    Ian Carr-Harris

    Tracings: Writing Art, 1975-2020

    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...
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  • In Form: Life and Legacies in Bronze by Abernethy, Ruth
    Ruth Abernethy

    In Form: Life and Legacies in Bronze

    "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...
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