Art - Canadian

Winner, Canadian Museums Association Outstanding Achievement in Publication Winner, Melva J. Dwyer AwardIain Baxter legally changed his name to IAIN BAXTER& in 2005. He appended an ampersand to his name to underscore that art is about connectivity -- about contingency and collaboration with a...

One of the first women artists in Canada to receive international recognition, Laura Muntz's evocative paintings of children and childhood have been exhibited worldwide. In this overview of Muntz's life and work, Joan Murray captures the breadth and sophistication of Muntz's oeuvre. Trained in...

RumbleSat: Art from the Edge of Space celebrates the two RumbleSat Art in Space missions; the Canadian Space Agency AUSTRAL 2017 campaign, and the JP Aerospace AWAY 123 launch. Featured in the book is the work of over a hundred artists who created original...

Mesozoic Park is an intriguing series of photographs documenting the construction of a (pseudo) prehistoric landscape in Calgary, Canada in the early 1980s. The history of photography has been dominated by the landscape: from its state as a pristine natural phenomenon, to its altered...

From creativity to imagination and the pursuit of excellence, ARENA: The Art of Hockey both illustrates the art of the game and examines larger ideas and issues in contemporary culture by using hockey as a framework.Author: Ray CroninISBN-10: 1554571677ISBN-13: 9781554571673Publisher: Art Gallery of Nova...

With a stunning command of the Greek language and a mastery of poetic nuance, this translation of Euripides' play breathes unparalleled life into an ancient masterpiece. Using vocabulary that gives the sense that the play was written with an appreciation of and application to...

Focusing on the work of black, diasporic writers in Canada, Blackening Canada investigates the manner in which literature can transform conceptions of nation and diaspora.Author: Paul BarrettISBN-10: 1442615761ISBN-13: 9781442615762Publisher: University of Toronto PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/22/2015Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70dReview Citation(s):...

This is a catalogue of the National Gallery of British Art (Tate Gallery). It provides a comprehensive overview of the gallery's collection, offering valuable insights into British art history. Compiled by Lionel Cust and the Tate Gallery, this catalogue serves as an important resource...

"Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Pictures. British Schools" offers a detailed look at the collection of British paintings housed in the National Gallery. This catalogue, originally published in 1896, provides descriptions of the artworks, along with historical context. It serves as a valuable...

Talent Next Door Kitchener Waterloo and Area Volume 2 - Is our SECOND catalogue of fabulous artists working in the Kitchener Waterloo region and the smaller towns west of it. After the successful launch of VOLUME 1, we made an even larger book with...

This was the first book I put together, based on the idea of a portfolio. Originally published in 2009, the book is a package of my artist statements, experiences, methods and includes drawings, paintings and my cv (at that time). I would recommend using...

Out of the Wood presents eighty reproductions of wood engravings created by Rosemary Kilbourn over a period of fifty years, accompanied by short, elegaic fragments of text that elucidate the artist's unique and influential aesthetic.Author: Rosemary KilbournISBN-10: 0889843465ISBN-13: 9780889843462Publisher: Porcupine's QuillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/15/2012Pages: 216Format:...

Published to coincide with a major exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Jack Chambers: Light, Spirit, Time, Place and Life is the first major volume to be published on the work of Jack Chambers, one of Canada's most recognized and broadly influential artists....

From his beginnings as a rural church decorator, to his role as catalyst of the social and artistic manifesto the Refus global, to a career as Canada's pre-eminent practitioner of radical abstraction abroad, Paul-Émile Borduas's short life encompassed the reversals and contradictions of the...

Book Of Small is published by Fitzhenry and Whiteside. Author: Emily CarrISBN-10: 1550051113ISBN-13: 9781550051117Publisher: Fitzhenry & WhitesideLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/17/2003Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d

Be the change you wish to see - Be artful every day, draw in this book. Art is the question you create an answer for. Your new art book will be great for show and tell You will get an A in art class...

The Video Art of Sylvia Safdie brings into focus the complete video oeuvre of a pioneering Canadian artist. Tracing the development of Safdie's work and its implications for the future of media art, this volume provides a stunning perspective on her videos and sets...

"The Canadian Portrait Gallery, Volume 3" presents a collection of biographical sketches of prominent figures in Canadian history. Penned by John Charles Dent, this volume offers insights into the lives and contributions of notable individuals who shaped Canada's cultural, political, and social landscape. Through...

Vol. 1 "Love" is an inspiring mindfulness colouring book with 35 pages of doodled drawings. Each volume includes enlightened life messages and 5 exploratory & technique pages . The book helps you to relax and experience mindfulness. Make them colourful & share them with...

"Beautiful, soulful expressions of human and animal spirits - made by Allison Grayhurst's hand - the heartfelt poetry of her soul showing up in the physical "flesh" of sculpture - the feeling and power of these beings translated through her finger tips," Taylor Jane...

Ekphrasis has generally been considered to be a rhetorical device in which one medium of art tries to relate to another medium by defining and interpreting it to the audience, through its illuminative liveliness. Through its rhetorical vividness it highlights what is happening, or...

"Repor" presents a comprehensive overview of a significant collection of Canadian art. Published by the National Gallery of Canada, this volume showcases a diverse range of artistic styles and periods. With high-quality reproductions and insightful commentary, "Repor" serves as a valuable resource for art...

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...