Art - Canadian

Water Forgets its Own Name is a sumptuous, indulgent mash-up by two incredibly driven creatives: a poet and an artist, who divest everything except for raw, visceral responses - to a small island that shapes who they are, and which makes their hearts sing....

The latest instalment in the award-winning series on the life and work of E. J. Hughes brings the reader into this very private artist's home and studio on Shawnigan Lake.In the most intimate volume yet about prolific Canadian painter E. J. Hughes, the artist's...

In 2019, the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago and the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University co-organized an exhibition of a newly commissioned body of work by the Canadian artist Liz Magor. The accompanying publication, Liz Magor: BLOWOUT, is the...

Together with important First Nations material, the Thomson Canadian Collection is the largest of all private holdings of Canadian art. Ten essays by authorities on Northwest Coast art, Cornelius Krieghoff, James Wilson Morrice, Tom Thomson, the Group of Seven painters Frederick Varley, Lawren Harris...

Innovative textile-based artwork exploded across the Canadian Prairies in the second half of the twentieth century. Melding craft traditions with modern and modernist movements in art and theory, a diverse body of creators opened a beautiful new chapter in textile art. Prairie Interlace brings...

Gerard Brender ? Brandis is a renowned wood engraver, whose works of densely textured intricacy vibrate across your vision, drawing you into a microscopically magic world.' - Hans Werner - Toronto StarAuthor: Gerard Brender a. Brandis, David HoenigerISBN-10: 0889842906ISBN-13: 9780889842908Publisher: Porcupine's QuillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2006Pages:...

"Retro Sinners" by gay Canadian artist Astra Zero invites you to explore a whimsical, provocative, and slightly mischievous world of vintage-inspired art. This unique 60-page collection showcases a delightful mismatch of artistic styles, moods, and themes centered around the male body, all with a...

Published in conjunction with the opening of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts' new Quebec and Canadian art pavilion, this book provides a comprehensive reference on Canadian art, painting a vivid portrait of Quebec's colorful history and Canada's vast landscapes. Spanning three centuries, the...

Multimedia works from an artist imagining a radically collective and borderless futureThis is the first major monograph for Montr饌l-based artist Hajra Waheed (born 1980). Her multidisciplinary practice explores the legacies of colonial and state violence with a uniquely poetic approach across collage, sound, video,...

In Eye of the Shaman, author David Turner introduces readers to Inuit artist and visionary Piona Keyuakjuk. During a series of visits to Pangnirtung, a small town located on Baffin Island in the territory of Nunavut, Turner came to know this remarkable individual, gaining...

Harold Cromwell was unique among the major Nova Scotia folk artists in two ways-he was African Nova Scotian (indeed, the most widely known African Nova Scotian folk artist in Canada), and his work consisted primarily of monochrome drawings (Joe Sleep also drew, but most...

This Fumbled Kiss is a collection of G.C. McRae's sensually rich micro-poems. In it, he takes on topics like first dumb love, the existential rollercoaster of fatherhood and insights from funerals with equal enthusiasm. Known for his humorous picture books and timeless fairy tales,...

Canadian artist Geoffrey Farmer (born 1967) devises collections that unite aspects of visual art, literature, music, politics and history, and that eventually culminate in sprawling theatrical installations. This publication offers detailed insight into the artist's installation entitled Let's Make the Water Turn Black.Author: Geoffrey...

History and highlights of craft beer making in the Forest City. Just like people and neighbourhoods, London's craft breweries have distinct personalities. Brewhopping Across London captures the rich history of brewing culture in London, its decline after prohibition, and recent explosive rebirth. Wolfe and...

A landmark publication bringing together more than seventy voices illuminating the rich array of Indigenous art held by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. Under the editorial direction of Anishinaabe artist and scholar Bonnie Devine, Early Days gathers the insights of myriad Indigenous cultural stakeholders,...

William Kurelek (1927-1977) is a beloved figure in Canadian art, a revered Ukrainian-Canadian painter whose works express his deeply felt immigrant experience and his compassionate vision of humanity. In 1975, he created a suite of 16 jewel-toned paintings titled Jewish Life in Canada in...

Shortlisted, APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book AwardLaurie Swim is an artist of extraordinary range and vision. For more than forty years, she has been among the most capable and passionate practitioners of textile art. In her chosen art form, Swim captures the essence of the...

"A captivating autobiography of an extraordinary life, as dramatic as it is accomplished." --Kirkus Review"The artist steps forward to disclose why a spiritual journey is required before any great art can be brought to light." --Peter H. Falk, Editor of Discoveries in American ArtAmerican...

"An incredible archive of paintings by Northwest Coast artists, allowing the viewer to explore the creativity, energy, and depths these artists have achieved." --Robert DavidsonIn the two decades since its initial publication, The Transforming Image has become a must-have book for scholars and appreciators...

In Jin-me Yoon: Life & Work, Ming Tiampo reveals how Yoon's multidisciplinary art-which includes photography, video, performance, and installation-reconnects troubled pasts with damaged presents to create the conditions for a better future. This new title considers how one of Canada's most important voices developed...

Tom Thomson is the undisputed master of the oil sketch. A towering figure in the history of Canadian art after just five years of professional practise, he stunned audiences with his fresh and avant-garde experimentation, evoking his experience of the Ontario landscape in dozens...

"Who Ate My Purple Crayon ?" is a collection of 80 hand drawn zen inspired abstracts waiting for your touch of colour & shade to bring them to life. Perfect bound and printed on double sided white paper, this colouring book works best with...

Newfoundland artist Margaret Ryall collects things or, as she would say, objects find her. They are pieces of old houses and sheds, discarded fishing gear, bits and pieces of peoples homes, their work, their lives, fragments that time has left behind, remnants of a...

Newfoundland artist Margaret Ryall collects things or, as she would say, objects collect her. They are pieces of old houses and sheds, discarded fishing gear, wallpaper and pieces of rusty hardware, bits and pieces of people's homes, their work, their lives. These fragments that...

This handy beginners' guide to finding sea glass outlines the basics needed to get started.Included are tips on when and where to look, what to look for in new locales, and some of the areas that yield glass in Nova Scotia. It also details...

Many Lives Mark this Place is a unique and brilliant project: portraits of 32 of Canada's finest authors, painted into their "home landscape," each accompanied by a short-but-powerful essay about how that place influences their life and work. Hartman traveled from Newfoundland to Tofino...

Tom Thomson holds a prominent position in Canada's culture and has become an icon for his landscapes, his brief life, and mysterious death. Dividing his time between the wilderness and a shack behind the Studio Building near downtown Toronto, Thomson was an inspiration to...

Working with a traditional glaze oil painting method, Cathy Groulx applies layer upon layer of thin paint, creating transparency and dark and light tones. This builds spectacular depth to each painting she creates. This book features a wide selection of Cathy's work, ranging from...

Devour: Art & Lit Canada - issue 016 is a Canadian culture magazine, published by Wet Ink Books.We are proud to bring you Devour: Art & Lit Canada. Devour is dedicated to the Canadian cultural voice. Find some of Canada's finest literary and visual...

The Victorian soldier-artist, Henry Edward Baines, has left us a unique legacy of his time in North America -- his lively and descriptive journal of a pleasure cruise around Lake Ontario in the summer of 1863, illustrated with dozens of vibrant watercolour paintings and...

In Richard Nevitt's hands the act of drawing becomes something more than a mechanical recording of the natural world. His drawings demonstrate that a simple line can elicit a deep appreciation of a geographic place in all of its dimensions. Each of Richard's drawings...

Since 1970, Manitoba artist Don Proch has built an astonishing body of work evoking a semi-mythical Prairie past and an unsettled and unresolved modernity. In his complex sculptures and life-size masks, Proch combines intricate draftsmanship with natural and found materials in surprising and transformative...

Winner, 2018 Canadian Museums Association Award of Outstanding Achievement in EducationShortlisted, 2018 Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association Best Atlantic Published Book AwardNunatsiavut, the Inuit region of Canada that achieved self-government in 2005, produces art that is distinct within the world of Canadian and circumpolar Inuit...

"Denyse Thomasos forged a form of abstraction that depicted the unspeakable and unimaginable confinement in slave ships and prisons." -Adrienne Edwards, New York TimesThis is the first ever retrospective publication on Trinidadian Canadian painter Denyse Thomasos (1964-2012). Thomasos' often monumental canvases with overlapping gridded...

A thought-provoking reflection on Black art within the Canadian cultural landscape. Featuring boundary-breaking artists and scholars, Making History collects poems, artist statements, and portfolios that showcase thoughtful understandings of Black aesthetics, Black contemporary art's institutional presence, and perspectives on modern and historical art practices...

Canadian artist Evan Penny (born 1953) makes the kind of sculpture that is so realistic, so detailed and so plainly a demonstration of virtuoso ability that it can literally stop people in their tracks. Modeled with tremendous craftsmanship in aluminium, silicone, epoxy resin and...

From a partridge in a pear tree to 12 drummers drumming, a beautifully illustrated celebration of the most festive time of the year. One of the most popular holiday songs of all time, "The Twelve Days of Christmas" probably originated in France during the...

In this unique book, artist and teacher David McClyment draws on decades of experience to outline essential professional practices for emerging fine artists. As he writes in the introduction: "In art college, I never heard one word of practical advice about what to expect...

The art of Gerard Collins resists categorisation. Over a 50-year career, Collins's conceptual imagination and dizzying array of influences has produced a body of work as eclectic as it is stimulating. His oeuvre, ranging from still lifes to landscapes, from realism to neo-conceptualism, remains...

Exclusive Memory: A Perceptual History of the Future is a compendium of descriptive, speculative prose and text-images by the Governor General's Award-winning artist, Tom Sherman. Its contents sweep across five decades, describing radically different periods and environments -- from Sherman's early experiments in Toronto...

Winner, APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award and The Critical Eye AwardHonourable Mention, Canadian Museums Association's Outstanding Achievement in ResearchIn Future Possible, Mireille Eagan and other writers and artists navigate the tangled histories and cultures of Newfoundland and Labrador to investigate the visual output and...

In this book, Vicki Schofield uses her artwork and poetry to depict what makes Christmas in a Canadian city so special. Her artwork shows the magic of tradition and community spirit in a time when we need a little more of it. From the...

Sticky Pictures examines and celebrates the evolving work of Montreal-based artist Janet Werner. In her paintings, Werner builds a constellation of spatial and figurative explorations drawn from fashion magazines and art history to create collage-like composite figures that slip easily between articulations of beauty,...

"The Wetland Project is a beautiful, quietly amazing work of micro-post-geographical art that allows us to be wherever we are and somewhere wonderfully natural and real, simultaneously. It's an experience I wish everyone could have, and I wish there were more experiences like it."...

A tribute to the Canadian North, a meditation on artistic creation, and a window onto the ideological musings of Canada's greatest Structurist artist.In celebration of his 100th birthday, Eli Bornstein, in collaboration with author and curator Roald Nasgaard, has published a stunning work of...

Dempsey Bob: In His Own Voice is based on the first full-scale solo museum exhibition of this extraordinary Tahltan-Tlingit artist, one of the finest living carvers of the Northwest Coast. Drawing from extensive interviews with the artist by the exhibition's co-curator, Sarah Milroy, the...

Under Different Moons: African Art in Conversation shares--for the first time in print--the UBC Museum of Anthropology's extensive collection of brilliant objects from dozens of African cultures, gathered over nearly a century. These include masks from the Baule peoples of C te d'Ivoire, the...

Knowledge Within: Treasures of the Northwest Coast looks into seventeen of the numerous sites in the Pacific Northwest region with major collections of Northwest Coast Indigenous material culture, bringing attention to a wide range of approaches to caring for and exhibiting such treasures. Each...

With the inauguration of the Ottawa Art Gallery's new building in the fall of 2017, the exhibition dis k magan / Nous conna tre un peu nous memes / We'll all become stories launches as the definitive showcase of the artistic practices of the...

Garbage is an architectural-scale series of panels that transform a gallery into a comic book. Each "page" of the story pops with colour off the wall, unfolding using the common tropes of comic books. Taken together the paintings tell the story of neighbours in...