Art - Canadian

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

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:...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"[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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

""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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

The deeply personal story of a milestone North American art collection. "There are many ways to collect art, many motivations and points of departure. In my estimation, Michael Audain's is of the socially beneficial variety: avid and personal enough to cultivate the eye, local...

Sarah Maloney's Pleasure Ground: A Feminist Take on the Natural World is the first major survey of contemporary sculptor and textile artist Sarah Maloney, RCA. Recognized for her representations of botanicals and the human body, Maloney uses media ranging from embroidery to bronze to...