Art - Canadian

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...

An extensive collection of the work of Tom Thomson, considered by many to be the most important artist in Canadian history. The accompanying text provides aesthetic commentary and a full biography.Author: David Silcox, Harold TownISBN-10: 1443442348ISBN-13: 9781443442343Publisher: CollinsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/17/2017Pages: 272Format: HardcoverWeight: 4.55lbsSize: 13.20h...

Explores the life and work of the little-known photographer Alexander Henderson, whose work laid the foundations of the Canadian romantic landscape Scottish-born Alexander Henderson (1831-1913) arrived in Montreal in 1855 at the age of twenty-four, eager to explore the Canadian wilderness. Photography, his observation...

Starting with the reflecting pool beneath the Unicorn Amphitheatre on Isola Bella, Poems for a Phantom Lover pairs a selection of short poems with photographs culled from decades' worth of research into the structure and symbolism of historic gardens, a study that has led...

The long-awaited history of the art college that became an unlikely epicenter of the art world in the 1960s and 1970s. How did a small art college in Nova Scotia become the epicenter of art education--and to a large extent of the postmimimalist and...

Being Legendary presents a new-and never before published-body of work by the revered and internationally renowned Cree artist Kent Monkman, guided by an Indigenous worldview, historical narratives, and the artist's playful imagination. Known for his thought-provoking and groundbreaking paintings, in Being Legendary Monkman focuses...

Calgary artist Chris Flodberg is a virtuoso oil painter, a painter's painter. He became known for his landscapes but has since tackled a startling range of themes: World War II warships, intimate interiors, post-apocalyptic banquets, abstracts, guard dogs and, most recently, ninety-six self-portraits in...

A stunning full-colour art book and the first to explore the career of award-winning visual artist Sandra Meigs Part philosopher, part filmmaker, performer, writer, tinkerer, prankster, conjurer, naturalist, upholsterer, and teacher, Sandra Meigs has typically been referred to as a painter. But she engages...

The New Spirit of Creativity examines creativity as an embedded institutional value and priority within public art institutions and higher education. The book unpacks the everyday work, organization, and administration of artistic creativity and its clashes with a "new spirit" of creativity that has...

Kirkus Reviews "Unvarnished lens looking at a troubled man's life-there's little to nothing like it out there." https: //www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/andreas-peter-pfundt/the-diary-of-a-suicidal-artist/ Due to the adult and heavy nature of this content, a warning has been issued. Reader's discretion is advised. Who am I? I am an...

A compelling survey of the professional lives and historic photographs of Canadian women. As Canada took shape in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the camera was both a witness to colonialism, capitalism, and gendered and racialized social organization, as well as an unlikely...

In Out of the Dark, master engraver Wesley W. Bates presents a compilation of wood engravings that bring to life exquisite landscapes and arresting scenes, all rendered simply but powerfully in the deep back and stark white of the storied artistic technique.Author: Wesley W....

Christopher Pratt is one of Canada's most prominent painters and printmakers. His reputation was solidified with the celebrated retrospective of his work at the National Gallery of Canada in 2005. The intense realism of Christopher Pratt's art is, at first glance, deceptively simple. But...

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...

Bringing together fifteen scholars of art and culture, Unsettling Canadian Art History addresses the visual and material culture of settler colonialism, enslavement, and racialized diasporas in the contested white settler state of Canada.This collection offers new avenues for scholarship on art, archives, and creative...

Sir William Van Horne (1843-1915), a gifted connoisseur most famously associated with the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway, amassed of one of the most extensive collections of Japanese ceramics in North America. Obsession is an illuminating account of the how and why behind...

Kent Monkman's art has been described as stupendous (New York Times), sure to alarm and educate (The Observer), and beating Western history painting at its own game (The Globe and Mail). Subversive, bold, and groundbreaking, the work of this Cree artist has transformed contemporary...

A captivating account of the formative years of one of Canada's best-known artists, Jackson's Wars follows A.Y. Jackson's education and progress as a painter before he was a well-known artist and his time on the battlefield in Europe, before he cast his lot in...

This book traces the art career and tradition of Thomas Craig Oliver, an important Canadia artist who's images were inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci, Dada (Marcel DuChamp) and the Buddha. Includes tribute chapters by recognized Canadian artists and art art professionals. More than half...

From black cats to iconic snowscapes, Maud Lewis paints our waking dreams.One of Canada's most beloved folk artists, Maud Lewis was famous in her lifetime for her brightly coloured and endearing paintings of rural Nova Scotia. Working from her tiny, road-side house in Marshalltown,...

These relaxing illustrations of this coloring are sure to bring you calm and peace with every page. And these pictures are easy to see to make this a stress free coloring experience for colorists of all ages and skill levels. So sit back, relax,...

A compact edition of an award-winning best-seller -- more affordable than the celebrated original, but otherwise identical. At a critical time in Canada's history, the Group of Seven revolutionized the country's appreciation of itself by celebrating Canada as a wild and beautiful land. These...

"Silcox [is] a wonderfully lucid stylist . . . this definitive volume presents 400 supreme color reproductions . . . covering the entire spectrum of the proficient and prolific group's magnificent output . . . every painting is vibrantly, radiantly, and gloriously alive: a...

Winner, Canadian Museums Association's Outstanding Achievement in Research Award and IPPY Awards Silver Medal (Fine Art)A Toronto Star Holiday Gift Guide SelectionA Like Vision is a lavish celebration of the legacy of Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, Canada's canonical landscape painters. The...

Tom Thomson stands as the most important artist in Canadian history. A forerunner of the Group of Seven, Thomson crated paintings that shaped the way Canadian view their land. Although he died before he was forty, Thomson's compelling works ignited a powerful national art...

A story of travail and triumph, Mark Huebner's wordless novel Let Go follows a laid-off ad man struggling to carry the deadweight of his past as he labours through a blizzard toward an unknown future.Author: Mark HuebnerISBN-10: 0889844399ISBN-13: 9780889844391Publisher: Porcupine's QuillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/31/2021Pages: 288Format:...

Culled from the hand-written pages in old-fashioned scribblers and almost-forgotten typescripts amid drafts for her published stories, Unvarnished features among the last unpublished and highly personal writings of the iconic Canadian author and artist Emily Carr. This highly readable manuscript--edited by Royal BC Museum...

THE BEST GIFT IDEA COLORING FOR GROWN-UPS - Each coloring page is designed to help relax and inspire - Each coloring page is specifically designed for stress relief, relaxation and inspiration - Use your choice of coloring tool (pens, pencils, markers, crayons) - Each...

TOWARDS LIGHT richly redefines the way we experience the scenic beauty of British Columbia. With each magical painting, artist Lil Chrzan informs the viewer that a landscape is not just about clouds and trees but rather the subtle quality of light and shadow in...

Gathie Falk is one of Canada's most heralded visual artists: she has won the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts, the Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts, and the Gershon Iskowitz Prize; she has been honoured with the Order...

First published in 1975, The Cage was a graphic novel before there was a name for the genre. Considered an early masterpiece of the genre, the Canadian cult comic has been out of print for decades. The new edition includes an introduction by Canadian...

Where the Power Is: Indigenous Perspectives on Northwest Coast Art brings together contemporary Indigenous knowledge holders with extraordinary works of historical Northwest Coast art that transcend the category of "art" or "artifact" and embody distinct ways of knowing and being in the world. Dozens...

The agency of photographs is a recurrent concern within the context of the city. Whether found in architectural records, social documentary, photojournalism, or artistic practice, photographic objects are embedded in urban contestation, aesthetically charged by artists, reinserted into social histories, and mobilized to imagine...

From Canada's most beloved painter comes a deluxe, over-sized art book showcasing Robert Bateman's vision of the Canadian landscape, coast to coast, for the 150th anniversary of Confederation. Join internationally acclaimed artist Robert Bateman on a journey across the seven regions of Canada and...

This colouring book features dozens of line drawings by renowned Inuit artist Germaine Arnattaujuq (Arnaktauyok), followed by information on Germaine's own artistic process and her unique drawing style inspired by pointillism. Perfect for art lovers and avid colouring fans alike. Author: Germaine Arnattaujuq (Arnaktauyok)ISBN-10:...

This book reveals the magnificent landscape paintings of the Group of Seven and their associates and explores how they contributed to Canada's modern cultural identity. The early decades of the 20th century were marked by artistic, economic, and social transformation in Canada and around...

Germaine Arnattaujuq (Arnaktauyok) is one of the Canadian North's most prolific and recognizable artists. In this book, she tells the story of her life in her own words: her "very traditional Inuk life" growing up in Nunavut at a camp near Igloolik, and her...

Few Canadian artists are as revered as Emily Carr. Born in 1871, she grew up in a socially conservative environment, away from the major art centers. Critics at the time considered her early paintings accurate and skilled but lacking energy and depth of feeling....

This book is the journey, and in a sense the journal of an artist who has conducted a forty-five-year love affair with Newfoundland since he first set foot there in 1966. Travelling to every inhabited corner of the island, he has recorded his personal...

Farewell To Canada presents a unique, visual perspective on the end of an era of British Imperial history. Between 1867 and 1871, the soldier/artist William Ogle Carlile of Britain's Royal Regiment of Artillery graphically documented a time when a new country, the Dominion of...

Co-published by Art Gallery of HamiltonTHIS IS SERIOUS reveals the considerable contributions artists from across the country are making to the greater field of global comics - of which Toronto, Montreal, and Hamilton are significant creative centres. Surveying the work of 40 contemporary Canadian...

"My mother loved the wild roses that bloomed along the side of the dirt roads and made every trip a fragrant journey."Artist and author dutchie Rutledge-Mathison has gathered her memories of growing up on a remote northern homestead and transformed them into works of...

Into the Light: The Art of Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald, is a comprehensive and diverse examination of the impact and lasting influence of Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald, the last member of the Group of Seven, joining in 1932, and the only member to live in western...

Almost Islands is a powerfully introspective memoir of the author's friendship with legendary Canadian poet Phyllis Webb - now in her nineties and long enveloped in silence - and his regular trips to see her. It is an extended meditation on literary ambition and...

The legendary Emily Carr was primarily a painter, but she first gained recognition as an author. She wrote seven popular, critically acclaimed books about her journeys to remote Native communities and about her life as an artist--as well as her life as a small...

An introduction to the artists who symbolize the Canadian spirit. Canada's most renowned artists, the Group of Seven and Tom Thomson, celebrated the country's wild beauty. They saw in the untamed land a reflection of the national spirit, and called themselves "adventurers in paint."...

Over his lifetime, Bill Reid created many historic pieces of art including the large bronze sculpture The Spirit of Haida Gwaii, nicknamed the Jade Canoe and displayed at the Vancouver International Airport, and The Raven and the First Men, a yellow cedar carving. Both...