Art - Canadian

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...

First collection of visual work by renowed Canadian poet Phyllis Webb * * A Dream in the Eye** presents colour reproductions of the paintings and photocollages of renowned poet Phyllis Webb. A Governor General's Award-winning poet and a member of the Order of Canada,...

First collection of visual work by renowed Canadian poet Phyllis Webb * * A Dream in the Eye** presents colour reproductions of the paintings and photocollages of renowned poet Phyllis Webb. A Governor General's Award-winning poet and a member of the Order of Canada,...

A stunning collection from Governor General's Award winner Roy Miki, Flow presents all of this critically acclaimed writer's poetry - from his collections Saving Face, Random Access File, Surrender, There, and Mannequin Rising - as well as a substantial chapter of new, previously unpublished...

The story of artists in Western Canada, and how they changed the face of Canadian art "Listen to the visual voices of artists. They tell us so poignantly who we are, what we must cherish, and what we must address as a society." Patricia...

At a time of disdain for modern art and widespread discrimination against women artists, Prudence Heward challenged the conventional in portraits that capture subtleties of emotion and often reflect her own struggles against illness and family tragedy. As A.Y. Jackson, founding member of the...

At a time of disdain for modern art and widespread discrimination against women artists, Prudence Heward challenged the conventional in portraits that capture subtleties of emotion and often reflect her own struggles against illness and family tragedy. As A.Y. Jackson, founding member of the...

Through a series of focused and interconnected case studies, Out of School explores the long history of information art associated with the Toronto School of Communication. It highlights the perspectives of artists inspired by the speculations of Marshall McLuhan and colleagues as well as...

JUST PASSING THROUGH offers you 26 opportunities to consider life in perhaps a new way. The thoughts, quotations and photo/art collages were designed to inspire us all to create the lives we want. We hope they will help slow down the spin of daily...

Community Arts is a practice of art within, for, and by the community. It is usually led by a professional Community Arts Facilitator with a community group who may not practice art full time. The goal of the practice is to express the community's...

Author Frank Smith exposes the rich history of blacksmithing in Nova Scotia, explores the subsequent emerging art form and provides a resource of practicing artisans' profiles.Author: Frank SmithISBN-10: 1989347053ISBN-13: 9781989347058Publisher: SSP PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/27/2020Pages: 112Format: Paperback

This bilingual publication is the first-ever monograph on artist Frances-Anne Johnston, one of Canada's foremost painters of still lifes, flowers, and interiors. Exploring the extensive artistic career of this under-represented artist, the book also situates her within 20th-century Canadian art history and feminist theoretical...

Seeing and Believing is an illustrated overview of the work of contemporary Canadian artist Luis Jacob. The book invites the reader to consider what is behind the image, and how it is informed by the museum/exhibition context and the viewer.Author: Luis Jacob, D. Liss,...

A massive artist's book-cum-overview of the revered and subversive queer Canadian collective, exquisitely designed in collaboration with AA BronsonThis 768-page volume stands as the most comprehensive source on the Canadian collective General Idea, founded in Toronto in 1969 by Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and...

A diverse collection of writings by contemporary Canadian artist Liz Magor that offers a new way to understand her work. Subject to Change presents catalog statements, essays, interviews, lecture notes, communications with gallerists and authors, and unpublished and out-of-print writings by Liz Magor, one...

Two generations of Inuit artists challenging the parameters of tradition.Kenojuak Ashevak shot to fame in 1970 when Canada Post printed The Enchanted Owl, a print of a black-and-red plumed nocturnal bird, on a postage stamp. She later became known as the magic-marker-wielding "grandmother of...

In Avant-Garde Canadian Literature, Gregory Betts draws attention to the fact that the avant-garde has had a presence in Canada long before the country's literary histories have recognized, and that the radicalism of avant-garde art has been sabotaged by pedestrian terms of engagement by...

Lawren S. Harris is best known for his iconic landscape paintings that declare a sense of cool Canadian resilience. Yet, in the 1920s, an audacious and more colourful interior world began to emerge in his work, and by 1934, the patriotic landscape painter had...

"The light in Pratt's paintings seems sentient, a living thing, a pulsation or emission, imbuing the paintings with an erotic and almost mystical desire." -- Canadian Art Following a stunningly successful national touring exhibition and a sold-out hardcover edition of the accompanying book, Mary...

Now available in a paper-bound edition Nearly a century ago, a group of artists travelled into northern Ontario and farther afield to capture the raw, terrible beauty that lay just beyond the outskirts of Canada's cities and towns. Armed with sketchbooks, brushes, and paint...

"When you revisit a place that matters to you for the first time in a long time it is a rich, spiritual experience, but if you then revisit such a place too frequently it loses some of its power. The power lies in the...

Born in Thurso, Scotland, Jock Macdonald (1897-1960) arrived in Vancouver in September 1926 and became head of design at the recently established Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts (now the Emily Carr University of Art + Design). Over the next three decades he...

The 2017 painting Quebec by Adam Miller represents over four hundred years of Quebec history. Featuring recognizable Quebec and Canadian politicians, ordinary characters, and allegorical figures, this unusual work visualizes many of the debates surrounding the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation as well as...

A lavishly illustrated history of the Grenfell Mission's exquisite hooked mats and the handcraft movement that inspired an international audience.Author: Paula LavertyISBN-10: 0773525068ISBN-13: 9780773525061Publisher: McGill-Queen's University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/04/2005Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.47lbsSize: 9.58h x 8.50w x 0.52d

The multimedia works of Canadian artist duo Janet Cardiff (born 1957) and George Bures Miller (born 1960) are often reminiscent of whimsical childhood experiences such as fairgrounds. This monograph documents six large-scale installations on the subject of the entertainment industry.Author: Janet CardiffISBN-10: 3775739785ISBN-13: 9783775739788Publisher:...

Four artists who are today relatively or almost entirely unknown - one woman and three men - nevertheless played a part in the aesthetic upheavals that led to abstraction in 1940s Montreal. Very active in the art milieu throughout the decade, Marian Dale Scott,...

Presented in English and Mi'kmaq, the latest chapter in this ambitious series presents a remarkable and respectful collaboration between an Indigenous and non-Indigenous artist, deepening and diversifying our understanding of the intergenerational knowledge of a Mi'kmaw community in Newfoundland. Miawpukek--The Middle River is Chapter...

For centuries, Canadian artists have recorded powerful images of military victories and defeats, political protest, and personal sacrifice. A new and richly illustrated book examines, for the first time, the profound role that conflict has played in shaping our nation's art, history, and identity-venturing...