Art - Canadian

To assist artists and their agents to identify and access their audiences. It provides an excellent overview of the legal and economic structures of the Canadian visual arts industry, and step-by-steps on how to access the players.Author: Sandra M. HawkinsISBN-10: 0973104929ISBN-13: 9780973104929Publisher: Library and...

A former artist's model and muse reclaims her image and voice, dismantling the male gaze that once framed her. At 23, Theresa Kishkan met an artist who became obsessed with her. She was young, she was flattered, and the situation quickly overwhelmed her. He...

A former artist's model and muse reclaims her image and voice, dismantling the male gaze that once framed her. At 23, Theresa Kishkan met an artist who became obsessed with her. She was young, she was flattered, and the situation quickly overwhelmed her. He...

Author: Robert D. WattISBN-10: 1773270427ISBN-13: 9781773270425Publisher: Figure 1 PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/28/2019Pages: 208Format: HardcoverWeight: 4.20lbsSize: 12.10h x 10.40w x 1.10d

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...

The Visual Arts in Canada: The Twentieth Century charts the developments in Canadian art from the late-nineteenth century to the present with new essays by the country's leading art historians. A comprehensive overview, this volume embraces painting, sculpture, photography, design, video, and conceptual and...

This souvenir art book, the first in a series, depicts past and present scenes from Richmond, British Columbia, featuring the original works of renowned Vancouver artist Raymond Chow.Laid out in a virtual tour format, Richmond 380 as Seen Through the Eyes of an Artist...

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 painter, art educator, and medical illustrator, William Raphael (1833?1914) was the first Jewish artist to establish a professional practice in Canada. Active during the latter half of the nineteenth century, Raphael made a name for himself as a portraitist, painting the likenesses of...

Edna Taçon became a prominent figure in Toronto during the 1940s, where she had a crucial impact on the development of abstract painting. Described as "Canada's leading proponent of non-objective art," she split her time between Toronto and New York, maintaining a practice that...

On oceanic environments through contemporary art and writing. BRACKISH WATERS is the third of three projects to engage the resource industries of Vancouver Island (mining, forestry, and fishing), through contemporary art and writing. Brackish waters mingle the fresh with the salt. Departing from industrial...

Leaders in the Field: The History and Legacy of Art at Mount Allison showcases the vitality and significant contributions of Mount Allison University's Fine Arts department to Canadian visual art and culture. Founded in the mid-19th century, it was the first fine arts department...

Did he ever play Hamlet? Has she worked in television? What was the title of his first novel? Under whom did she study? How many children has he? Answers to such questions about contemporary Canadian artists have often been difficult, even impossible, to find....

Emily Carr, often called Canada's Van Gogh, was a post-impressionist explorer, artist and writer. In Artist Emily Carr and the Spirit of the Land Phyllis Marie Jensen draws on analytical psychology and the theories of feminism and social constructionism for insights into Carr's life...

Egyptian Antiquities In The British Museum (1862) is a comprehensive book written by Samuel Sharpe. The book is a detailed account of the Egyptian antiquities that were present in the British Museum during the mid-19th century. The author provides a detailed description of the...

This index has been compiled as a quick reference guide to biographies of 9,052 professional and amateur artists active in Canada from the seventeenth century to the present. The artists represent 42 professional categories, from animation to topography. In addition to 8,261 Canadian artists,...

The Canada Council for the Arts is the country's largest provider of grants for artists and arts organizations, benefiting not only writers, visual artists, performers, and musicians but Canadian culture as a whole. In The Roots of Culture, the Power of Art Monica Gattinger...

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...

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...

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...

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