Art - Canadian

Gathie Falk: Revelations, published on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition curated by Sarah Milroy, investigates the career of a legendary Canadian artist. Now in her nineties, Gathie Falk was born in 1928 in Brandon, Manitoba, settling finally in Vancouver, where she established herself...

The daughter of celebrated photographer Harold Mortimer-Lamb, Vancouver-born artist Molly Lamb Bobak (1920-2014) joined the Canadian Women's Army Corps in 1942 and was sent overseas to London, becoming the first Canadian woman war artist. She brashly captured women's military life and roles during the...

Author: Shirley MadillISBN-10: 148710264XISBN-13: 9781487102647Publisher: Canadian Art LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/18/2021Pages: 128Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.80lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.00w x 0.70d

Born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald (1890-1956) imbued his art with the beauty and essence of his surroundings. Although he became the Group of Seven's tenth member in 1932, his style was vastly different from his counterparts in Ontario. His realist...

Shuvinai Ashoona is one of Canada's most renowned artists, whose work has been celebrated domestically as well as in Australia, Europe, and the United States. In the publication Vitamin D2: New Perspectives in Drawing (Phaidon, 2013), Shuvinai is recognized as a member of a...

Passionately and unapologetically Canadian, artist and activist Greg Curnoe (1936-1992) transformed his hometown of London, Ontario, into an important city for artistic production. Born in 1936, he strongly rejected the idea of moving to "the centre" (Toronto or New York) and spearheaded London Regionalism,...

Emily Carr (1871-1945) gained prominence when female painters were not recognized internationally. Her work reveals a fascination with questions inspired by the Canadian sea, landscapes, and people, reflecting a profound commitment to the land she knew and loved. Along with the Group of Seven,...

Film is the art form of our times. It has formed the background of our lives, informed visual arts practices, and formed our culture's stories, its memory.Moments of Perception is a landmark book. The first history of twentieth and early-twenty-first-century Canadian experimental filmmaking, it...

Imprints is a collection of essays, interviews, ephemera, and personal reflections that chart the life and work of filmmaker Louise Bourque. Since 1989, Bourque has made a significant mark on Canadian experimental cinema. Her works often involve the physical manipulation of emulsion, with the...

Author: Mary AllodiISBN-10: 0888545177ISBN-13: 9780888545176Publisher: Royal Ontario MuseumLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2024Pages: 240Format: Hardcover

"Like all but very few Canadians, I've had no real experience of the North -- I've remained, of necessity, an outsider. And the North has remained for me a convenient place to dream about, spin tall tales about and, in the end, avoid." --...

A book which explores how a group of artists understand and visualise their surrounding city of Toronto.Author: Luis JacobISBN-10: 1912165279ISBN-13: 9781912165278Publisher: Black Dog PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/12/2021Pages: 240Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.35lbsSize: 11.30h x 9.30w x 1.10d

Life inside a Federal Penitentiary is a mystery to most people. Closely governed by rule and law, Federal Penitentiaries are nevertheless complex communities of people who live and work behind the razor ribbon that encircles them. Correctional Officers are among the few people who...

Life inside a Federal Penitentiary is a mystery to most people. Closely governed by rule and law, Federal Penitentiaries are nevertheless complex communities of people who live and work behind the razor ribbon that encircles them. Correctional Officers are among the few people who...

Michael Snow (1928-2023) was one of Canada's greatest living artists, and one of the most significant figures in twentieth-century Canadian art. Despite his longstanding international acclaim, the nascent stages of Snow's career are comparatively underexamined. Early Snow focuses on the creative heights Snow had...

In this wordless biography, wood engraver George A. Walker provides a fitting stage to explore the life of Mary Pickford, a silent film star whose groundbreaking contributions to the motion picture industry earned her the title Queen of the Movies'.Author: George A. WalkerISBN-10: 0889844348ISBN-13:...

With this monograph, award-winning multidisciplinary artist Vera Frenkel receives her first major survey. Exhibited internationally, her installations, videos, writings and media arts projects address the forces at work in human migration and displacement, the learning and un-learning of cultural memory, the relation of totalitarianism...

Call Ampersand Response is a collaborative artwork made through an exchange of images via email. Between 2011 and 2017 Canadian artists Michael Dumontier (born 1960) and Micah Lexier (born 1974) conceived this activity as a way to share with each other their mutual interest...

Liz Magor (born 1948) is one of the most important Canadian artists of her generation and certainly Canada's most influential sculptor of the past three decades. This publication offers an in-depth exploration of Magor's sculpture and installation work, produced over the course of 40...

Accompanies an exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Oct. 29, 2011-Jan. 29, 2012.Author: Ian M. Thom, Grant ArnoldISBN-10: 1553659295ISBN-13: 9781553659297Publisher: Douglas & McIntyreLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/21/2012Pages: 157Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.25lbsSize: 11.00h x 9.10w x 0.70d

The illustrated account of the Group of Seven leader. Lawren Harris was born into the enviable position of having the means to fully devote his life to his art. He was also born with vision, determination, and talent. As a result, Harris became the...

"Some can be active to a great age but enjoy little," observed Emily Carr shortly before her death in 1945. "I have lived." The impressive scope of Carr's art and her unorthodox life are the subjects of art educator Anne Newlands' latest book. In...

Artist. Activist. Curator. Joane Cardinal-Schubert was a phenomenal talent. Her work recognizes the social and political ramifications of lived Indigenous experience, exposing truths about history, culture, and the contemporary world. She was a teacher and mentor, supporting those who struggle against the legacies of...

In the past decade, Jane Ash Poitras, an Indigenous woman from northern Alberta, has emerged as one of the most important Canadian artists of her generation. Raised by a German widow who powdered her dark skin and tried to make her straight hair curl,...

Into the Light is a major retrospective of the work of William Blair Bruce (1859-1906), Canada's first Impressionist artist. Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Bruce spent his early career in France, where he became one of the group of international artists who studied alongside Claude...

Laurent Amiot was born in Quebec City in 1764, and after a first apprenticeship stayed in Paris for five years, just before the French Revolution, to perfect his artistic training. He returned to his hometown in the spring of 1787, acquainted with the latest...

This Is Not a Hoax shows how the work of some contemporary artists and writers intentionally disrupts the curatorial and authorial practices of the country's most respected cultural institutions: art galleries, museums, and book publishers. This first-ever study of contemporary Canadian hoaxes in visual...

Ruben Anton Komangapik is one of the Arctic's most gifted sculptors. His work has been exhibited across Canada with pieces on permanent loan to the Museum of Nature and Culture in Montreal. In Isuma, Ruben's vibrant, provocative sculpture, and his artistic process, are brought...

Physical negotiations are central to the textured paintings and improvised sculptures for which Julia Dault is celebrated. In her multilayered paintings, Dault employs organic and synthetic supports such as canvas, leather, vinyl, spandex and wooden frames, which act as surfaces to hold paint or...

This index has been compiled as a quick reference guide to biographies of almost 8,800 professional and amateur artists active in Canada from the seventeenth century to the present. The artists represent 42 professional categories, from animation to topography.Author: Evelyn de R. McMannISBN-10: 1487586884ISBN-13:...

This collection of more than 30 original patterns was inspired by Mandala, a method of creating repetitive patterns that promotes relaxation as well as creative expression. Pages are perforated and printed on one side only for easy removal and display. Specially designed for experienced...

When it comes to the role played by Canadian women artists in the first half of the 20th century, there is a glaring hole in our documented history. The memory of one artist now reaches up from the backwaters of domestic life.Lesley McNaught Sirluck...

Sculpture/Inuit draws together masterworks of Eskimo caring in a full and definitive recognition of the culture of the Inuit the Eskimos of North America.Author: Canadian Eskimo Arts CouncilISBN-10: 0802018467ISBN-13: 9780802018465Publisher: University of Toronto PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/15/1971Pages: 496Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.72lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 1.00d

David Neel was an infant when his father, a traditional Kwakiutl artist, returned to the ancestors, triggering a series of events that would separate David from his homeland and its rich cultural traditions for twenty-five years. When the aspiring photographer saw a mask carved...

Nature has been Robert Bateman's inspiration ever since he began painting birds from his bedroom window as a young boy. The wildlife he features in his paintings are expressions of his love and respect for the natural world. A passionate environmentalist who has devoted...