Art - Canadian

In the spring of 1918 Lawren Harris and J.E.H. MacDonald, two members of the soon-to-be-formed Group of Seven, met in the Studio Building in Toronto. Their friend Tom Thomson had died in mysterious circumstances the year before and, together, they determined to establish him...

Though Expo 67 looms large in our collective memory, it is often remembered nostalgically as a remote historical event. The conditions that made Expo an exceptional cultural moment are often forgotten: remarkable creative freedom was granted to artists, architects, filmmakers, and designers to experiment...

This book explores Jean-Paul Riopelle's interest in northern Canada and his works devoted to this theme. It highlights in particular the wonderful series of paintings he made in the 1970s, including both the works themselves and archival materials that delve into this period when...

Over three generations, the Sobey family of Nova Scotia has demonstrated their discerning and enthusiastic commitment to Canadian art. Accompanying a major exhibition at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection and timed to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the prestigious Sobey Art Award, Generations...

A critical study of Indigenous artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas's playful art. In his distinctive Haida manga, Indigenous creator Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas combines the bold lines of traditional Haida art with the graphic vitality of Asian comics. Beautifully illustrated, Mischief Making traces the evolution and...

David More is one of western Canada's exceptional painters. Based in the rural hamlet of Benalto, near Red Deer Alberta, he is part of a generation of landscape artists who emerged in the 1970s to make beauty out of the ordinary and challenge the...

Winner of the 2021 BC and Yukon Book Prizes' Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice AwardBoat lovers of all ages and people who enjoy the scenery of BC's coast will delight in this charming gift book, a worthy addition to books about BC's art history.In the...

A visual and descriptive journey through the life and art of Robert-Ralph Carmichael, a noted Canadian painter as well as the designer of the iconic Canadian $1 coin - "The Loonie". (A detailed overview is provided on the author's website www.karltuira.com).150 of his surreal,...

In 1911, Emily Carr returned from a sixteen-month trip to France with a new understanding of French Modernism and a radically transformed painting style, one that broke free from the artistic shackles of her conservative training and embraced a new means of expression. Her...

Maud Lewis has become one of Canada's favourite folk artists, and her buoyant winter pictures of nature, pets, farm animals, and people at work and play are among her most charming. Her hands were twisted with arthritis, but Maud earned her living by painting...

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...

Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America explores how close, collaborative looking can discern the traces of contact, exchange, and movement of objects and give them a life and political power in complex cross-cultural histories. Red River coats, prints of colonial places...

Found in public spaces and parks, art galleries and university buildings, along riverbanks as well as in city squares, private gardens and even underwater, Canadian sculpture encompasses a range of materials and styles from traditional bone and bronze to postmodern multimedia installations. As this...

The artist Jean Paul Riopelle is best known for his renowned mature abstract style. In this fascinating history, François-Marc Gagnon begins with the artist's first paintings and his early commitment to objectivity to explore Riopelle's involvement with the Automatiste movement and its lasting impact...

One of today's most important documentary filmmakers, Alanis Obomsawin has dedicated her life's work to shining a light on the injustices experienced by Canada's Indigenous peoples. This retrospective monograph features an extensive interview with Obomsawin and includes images and written reflections on her entire...

Houle's painting blends Western abstraction, postmodernism and conceptualism with First Nations art history and techniques, challenging expectations about Indigenous aestheticsAn extensive survey spanning more than 50 years, Robert Houle: Red Is Beautiful celebrates Houle's ongoing career as an internationally recognized Indigenous artist, curator and...

Emily Pittman is a young and dynamic artist living and working in St. John's, Newfoundland. Her artworks in Someday Homes Fill My Dreams are coupled with her poetic musings about the work, or about the inspiration for its creation. Her words conjure a friendship...

Fifty years ago, Canada celebrated its hundredth anniversary of Confederation. At Expo 67, in communities across the country, we celebrated our coming of age as a modern, bilingual, bicultural nation--a place where anyone from any culture could thrive. But beneath the applause and the...

The Ash K. Prakash Collection of works by James W. Morrice offers an exciting journey into the personal and artistic explorations of the first Canadian painter who established an enviable career as an artist in Paris by the turn of the twentieth century. While...

E. J. Hughes (1913-2007) is British Columbia's best-loved landscape painter. His unashamedly picturesque views of the province are appreciated by art professionals and the public alike. Following the success of his previous volume, E. J. Hughes Paints Vancouver Island, author and artist Robert Amos...

Kim Dorland explores the mind and work of one of Canada's most intriguing contemporary artists. Named Globe and Mail "Artist of the Year" in 2013, Dorland has captured the public's imagination with his tour-de-force, visceral creations. His paintings are at once referential, material, psychological,...

Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience takes readers through artist Kent Monkman's largest solo exhibition to date, which challenges predominant narratives of Canada's history, and honors the resilience of its original inhabitants.Author: Kent MonkmanISBN-10: 1912165260ISBN-13: 9781912165261Publisher: Black Dog PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/05/2021Pages: 272Format: HardcoverWeight:...

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...

Will Munro (1975-2010) was a multimedia visual artist, DJ and community builder based in Toronto. History, Glamour, Magic fully documents his activities as an artist with emphasis on his punk DIY sculpture and installation from 1998 to the end of his life.Author: Will MunroISBN-10:...

Making Believe responds to a remarkable flowering of art by Mennonites in Canada. After the publication of his first novel in 1962, Rudy Wiebe was the only identifiable Mennonite literary writer in the country. Beginning in the 1970s, the numbers grew rapidly and now...

Author: Walter J. PhillipsISBN-10: 0764966049ISBN-13: 9780764966040Publisher: Pomegranate CommunicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2013Pages: 112Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.00lbsSize: 10.40h x 9.30w x 0.70d

Images in a poetry book often serve as illustrations for the poems, but this is not the case with Garden of Words. In an unusual departure from the norm, we see words illuminate artwork created long before the poems were written. Acclaimed visual artist...

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...