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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981336305Author Julia TropsFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Julia TropsPublisher Julia TropsWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988111452Author Michael Parke-TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Concordia University PressPublisher Concordia University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894906623Author Rebecca BascianoFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Ottawa Art GalleryPublisher Ottawa Art Gallery

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...

Through a fusion of personal experience and art, the contributors help us understand the lived realities of individuals with head and neck cancer. Featuring original art from Ingrid Bachmann, Sean Caulfield, Jude Griebel, Jill Ho-You, Heather Huston, and...

Literacy is broadly understood to refer to the ability to read and write. But the term is heavily value-laden and is often used to elevate print at the expense of other forms of communication. In PhotoGraphic Encounters, the authors challenge this...

From the Roaring Twenties and the Group of Seven to the Automatistes and the early Cold War, Canadian artists lived through and embodied an era of global tumult and change. With an interweaving of historical narrative, lavish illustrations, and writings...

Emphasizing the ways in which social, economic, and political conditions determine representation, Marylin McKay moves beyond canonical images and traditional nationalistic interpretations by analyzing Canadian landscape art in relation to different...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773104102Author Ihor HolubizkyFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint Goose Lane EditionsPublisher Goose Lane EditionsWeight(grams) 1197g

This book will appeal to anyone interested in the lives of Canadian artists, the Great Depression, BC history, art history, labour history, or narratives of disaffected youth.Book InformationISBN 9780774834988Author Peter NearyFormat HardbackPage Count...

Unsettling Encounters radically re-examines Emily Carr's achievement in representing Native life on the Northwest Coast in her painting and writing. By reconstructing a neglected body of Carr's work that was central in shaping her vision and career, it...

Remember radicalism? A time when the Toronto art scene was in formation - and destruction? When there were no models and anything was possible? The late 1970s was a key period when Toronto thought itself Canada's most important art centre, but history...

Over the course of fifty years, distinguished Staff Sergeant (retired) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Alert Henry (Al) Lund amassed the largest ever collection of Mountie books, magazines, and comics. From a collection of thousands, he selected...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773103457Author Carol BruneauFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Goose Lane EditionsPublisher Goose Lane EditionsWeight(grams) 726g

Kashetsky documents domestic life, street life, urban landscapes, nature, and the stories of Holocaust survivors in his affecting, meditative work.Herzl Kashetsky's rich, multi-layered works are deep explorations of the human condition. His meticulously...

"... I was able to make a simple gesture which left no permanent mark on the land."In 1979 Marlene Creates signaled her intent. In contrast to the monumental earthworks of that time, she revealed that her interest in the intersection of art and the...

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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...

On the first weekend in October, Nova Scotia artists and artisans throw open their studio doors, and locals and tourists alike, Studio Rally maps in hand, hit the highways and byways to pay a few calls. In 1992, Adriane Abbott, a Halifax textile artist,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927330609Author Jane Lytton GoochFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Rocky Mountain Books,CanadaPublisher Rocky Mountain Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 672g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894765978Author Jany Lytton GoochFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Rocky Mountain Books,CanadaPublisher Rocky Mountain Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 400g

Exploring the experimental energy of an era,Toronto: Tributes + Tributaries, 1971-1989brings together more than 100 works by 65 artists and collectives to highlight an innovative period in Toronto art history. Amidst the social and political upheavals of...

Every. Now. Then: Rethinking Nationhood embraces the fundamental belief that Canada is a dynamic work-in-progress that has, is, and will continue to be defined by movements and migrations across shifting terrain and within a variable, often unstable,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773270241Author Victoria DickensonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Figure 1 PublishingPublisher Figure 1 Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773270180Author Katerina AtanassovaFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Figure 1 PublishingPublisher Figure 1 Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781486804801Author Sarah StannersFormat HardbackPage Count 164Imprint McMichael Canadian Art CollectionPublisher McMichael Canadian Art...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773103198Author Sarah MilroyFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint Goose Lane EditionsPublisher Goose Lane Editions

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

In Facets of Eros, David Sobelman, an award-winning writer of documentaries, explores the early drawings of Canadian artist Claire Wilks, their presciently feminist visual vocabulary. He does so by looking at the drawings-so open in their sexuality, so...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773103075Author Robert BarriaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Goose Lane EditionsPublisher Goose Lane EditionsWeight(grams) 748g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554578733Author David DivineyFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Art Gallery of Nova ScotiaPublisher Art Gallery of Nova ScotiaWeight(grams) 604g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554576920Author David DivineyFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Art Gallery of Nova ScotiaPublisher Art Gallery of Nova ScotiaWeight(grams) 1224g

Making History is an unprecedented and boundary-breaking exploration of Black history and art in Canada. It brings together poems, artist statements, and art portfolios to showcase a careful and thoughtful understanding of Black aesthetics, while...

Notions of identity have long structured women's art. Dynamics of race, class, and gender have shaped the production of artworks and oriented their subsequent reassessments. Arguably, this is especially true of art by women, and of the socially engaged...