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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,...

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,...

For many years, Maud Lewis was one of Nova Scotia's best-loved folk painters. In the 1990s she was embraced by the rest of the country when the landmark exhibition of her work The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis travelled across Canada. By the time the...

Follow these Canadian artists as they travel abroad and return home again, over a series of journeys taking place during the last decades of the nineteenth century to the turn of the twentieth. 130 masterworks by some 35 artists situate Canadian art...

Over six decades of brilliant prints and paintings from the most prominent Northwest Coast artist of his generation.Finalist for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize, a BC & Yukon Book Prize Since leaving Haida Gwaii to study art in Vancouver-where...

An innovative survey of Native North American art history which fully incorporates substantive new research and scholarship, and examines such issues as gender, representation, the colonial encounter, and contemporary arts. By encompassing both the...

Tom Thomson is the undisputed master of the oil sketch. A towering figure in the history of Canadian art after just five years of professional practise, he stunned audiences with his fresh and avant-garde experimentation, evoking his experience of the...

Kamila is a cornucopia of dreadfulness. Her works at once beautiful and terrible, each piece like being tickled by Death's cold little fingers, every bewitching creation a world I want to know more about. - Brom Welcome to the mind of Canadian...

Tom Wilson Tehohahake is a modern Mohawk artist, Juno Award winner, best-selling author, and newly appointed member of the Order of Canada. In his 2017 memoir, Beautiful Scars, Wilson revealed the astonishing story of how he discovered he is Mohawk. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771088343Author Ray CroninFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Nimbus Publishing (CN)Publisher Nimbus Publishing (CN)Weight(grams) 503g

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...

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...

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 type...

"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." --...

Variable Conditions recovers and explores early Canadian encounters between computational media and contemporary art in the late twentieth century, charting a network of developments linking meteorology, computation, and the arts that arose long before...

A wide-ranging study that examines everything from the blockbuster movie franchise Les Boys to the sovereigntist hip hop group Loco Locass, Hockey, PQ explores how Canada's national sport has been used to signify a specific Quebecois identity. Amy J...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037643822Author Guy BellavanceFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP RingierWeight(grams) 402g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551522142Author Melanie O'BrianFormat PaperbackPage Count 235Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press

Jean Paul Riopelle est surtout connu pour les celebres toiles abstraites de sa maturite artistique. Toutefois, Francois Marc Gagnon amorce cette histoire fascinante avec les premieres peintures et l'adhesion precoce a l'objectivite, avant de sonder la...

Many Lives Mark this Place is a unique and brilliant project: portraits of 32 of Canada's finest authors, painted into their "home landscape," each accompanied by a short-but-powerful essay about how that place influences their life and work. Hartman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487586881Author Evelyn de R McMannFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto Press

The work of Alex Colville, O.C. (1920-2013), one of the great modern realist painters, combines the Flemish detail of Andrew Wyeth, the eerie foreboding of George Tooker and the anguished confrontations of Lucian Freud. Behind the North Americans stands...

Published to coincide with a major exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Jack Chambers: Light, Spirit, Time, Place and Life is the first major volume to be published on the work of Jack Chambers, one of Canada's most recognized and broadly...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981328072Author Tom SmartFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Beaverbrook Art GalleryPublisher Beaverbrook Art GalleryWeight(grams) 634gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992135676Author Cheryl RadfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Chks PublishingPublisher Chks PublishingWeight(grams) 104g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780919096554Author Stephen BroomerFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Canadian Film InstitutePublisher Canadian Film InstituteWeight(grams)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781525560255Author Pat BlissFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 227g

A wide-ranging study that examines everything from the blockbuster movie franchise Les Boys to the sovereigntist hip hop group Loco Locass, Hockey, PQ explores how Canada's national sport has been used to signify a specific Quebecois identity. Amy J...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781525560248Author Pat BlissFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 503g

Michael Audain and Yoshiko Kurosawa are two of Canada's best-known art patrons: their donations are held not only by many private corporations but by many museums and galleries, including the National Gallery of Canada, and Vancouver Art Gallery. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772441482Author David TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Rock's Mills PressPublisher Rock's Mills PressWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989786901Author Richard M GroveFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Wet Ink BooksPublisher Wet Ink BooksWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781387711925Author Aimée ChatelaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 154g

The Canadian War Memorials Exhibition opened in the galleries of the Royal Academy in Burlington House in January 1919. Featuring four hundred paintings and sculptures depicting the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the First World War, the exhibition...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999111106Author Annette ChiappeFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Annette ChiappePublisher Annette ChiappeWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771621236Author Scott SteedmanFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyre