Art - Canadian

Born in 1919 in the Black community of Weymouth Falls, Nova Scotia, Harold Cromwell was a descendant of the Black Loyalists who settled in the area in 1783. He was also a prolific folk artist with an acute talent for observation. His meticulous, textured...

We are proud to bring you Devour: Art & Lit Canada - issue 019 - ISSN 2561-1321. Devour is dedicated to the Canadian cultural voice. Find some of Canada's finest literary and visual talent from coast to coast to coast, featured in every issue....

Fort Frances 15 short stories Charm and Character of the town and region and peopleAuthor: S. WampmanISBN-10: 1466267828ISBN-13: 9781466267824Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/25/2011Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.41d

Author: Mireille EaganISBN-10: 148710412XISBN-13: 9781487104122Publisher: Canadian Art LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/29/2026Pages: 160Format: Hardcover

At a time when few were working professionally with cameras, Hannah Maynard (1834-1918) made history with her boundless creativity and entrepreneurial acumen, becoming the first woman in British Columbia to establish a professional photography studio. In 1863, just a little over two decades after...

A tribute to the iconic watercraft--an enduring symbol of national identity--as depicted through 200 years of Canadian art. With its origins in commerce and Indigenous culture, and its status as a modern cultural emblem, the canoe serves as a link between Canada's rugged history...

Broken Glosa is a lament, exultation, beat improvisation, pop incantation, mantric visitation, and resounding of the bardic emanation. It is a prayer, and all that seems in ruins in the world is reborn in celebration here, in the continuous song of the cosmic and...

The years between 1922 and 1961, often referred to as the "Dark Ages of Northwest Coast art," have largely been ignored by art historians, and dismissed as a period of artistic decline. Tales of Ghosts compellingly reclaims this era, arguing that it was instead...

In 1971, Canada became the first country to adopt an official policy of multiculturalism. Performing the Intercultural City explores how Toronto--a representative global city in this multicultural country--stages diversity through its many intercultural theater companies and troupes. The book begins with a theoretical introduction...

In the wake of the attacks of 11 September 2001, and amid the expansion of US-led security policy, surveillance quickly insinuated itself into the fabric of everyday life in Canada. Practices once confined to military and intelligence operations now shape civilian spaces, where observation...

In 1965, Viktor Tinkl, a sculptor and later a teacher at Ontario College of Art, bought a schoolhouse in the farmland near Vallentyne, Ontario. Judith Wild joined him a few months later. Their combined vision created the Tinkl's spectacular home, galleries and sculpture gardens....

Japanese Color Prints is a book published in 1920 that features the works of Toyokuni, Utagawa Ichiyosai, a prominent Japanese artist known for his woodblock prints. The book includes a collection of colorful and intricate prints that showcase the artist's skills in capturing the...

This beautifully crafted collection showcases Fox's artworks created over decades from his beloved Venice -- the Paradise of Cities. Accompanying an exhibition at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery opening in July 2025, the volume shows the artist's evolution from painting the heart of Venice to...

Weaving together forty-five years of artistic practice, I Use All the Colours follows the creative journey of Joyce Majiski. As one of Northern Canada's most prolific visual artists, Majiski has built an unconventional life in the boreal forest, honing her skills outside the formal...

This collection of ten chapters and three original interviews with Québécois filmmakers focuses on the past two decades of Quebec cinema and takes an in-depth look at a (primarily) Montreal-based filmmaking industry whose increasingly diverse productions continue to resist the hegemony of Hollywood and...

"The Canadian Portrait Gallery, Volume 3" offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives of prominent figures in 19th-century Canada. This volume features a collection of biographical sketches accompanied by detailed portraits, providing insight into the individuals who shaped the nation's history and culture. From...

Lotus: Special Holiday Number In Memoriam James A. McNeill Whistler is a book written by Matsuki, Bunkio and published in 1903. The book is a tribute to the famous American artist James A. McNeill Whistler, who had recently passed away. The book is a...

Winner, Best Atlantic Published Book AwardShortlisted, New Brunswick Book Award for Non-FictionWriting early in 1962, Lucy Jarvis said she felt "just at the threshold of beginning." Jarvis had studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in the 1920s, later becoming part...

Winter Count draws inspiration from the Plains First Nations practices of recording significant events each winter, a visual reminder that helps structure histories and traditions passed down to future generations. This handsome volume explores how winter has long shaped Indigenous, Canadian settler, and northern...

The Kingston Prize: Canada's Portrait Competition presents over 250 extraordinary contemporary portraits by Canadian artists, celebrating the finalists and winners of the first nine editions of one of the country's leading portrait competitions. Founded in 2005 in Kingston, Ontario, the Kingston Prize is a...

Anna Torma's large embroideries are complex expressions of her experiences of family, immigration, joy, and the act of creation. Her richly layered textile narratives draw references from popular culture, thrift shop aesthetics, and traditional Hungarian textiles and demonstrate her deep concern for the world...

Showcasing the major career highlights and some of the most recent work of abstract painter Jacques Hurtubise, this lavishly illustrated bilingual volume captures the key works of Hurtubise's formidable fifty-plus year career, many of which have never been brought together in a major exhibition...

Photography, sculpture, woven work, folk art, painting, found art, and more.When Terry Graff and Alan Syliboy decided to investigate contemporary First Nations art in New Brunswick, they set out on a road trip. They visited the Mi'kmaq Nation communities and Wolastoqey Nation communities. The...

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...

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...

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...

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...