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Halifax Art & Artists
An Illustrated History
Price:
CA$60.00
ISBN: 9781487103248
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: The Canadian Art Library
One of the oldest settlements in Canada, Halifax is the site of landmark firsts in Canadian art history, including the first public art exhibition and the first fine art association. Not only is Nova Scotia?s capital steeped in Maritime history, it is also home to one of the boldest, most radical contemporary art scenes in the country, a place known for its extraordinary spirit of innovation. Halifax Art & Artists: An Illustrated History brings these two spheres together, offering an exploration of creativity in the city from time immemorial to the present.
Photography in Canada, 1839-1989
An Illustrated History
Price:
CA$60.00
ISBN: 9781487103132
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: The Canadian Art Library
This publication is the first comprehensive book on the history of photography in Canada. It addresses an artform like no other: ever since its invention in 1839, photography has revolutionized the way that we understand ourselves and our country. From the moment the first visionary practitioners in Canada took up cameras to create portraits, capture landscapes, and record history, photographs have played a pivotal role in shaping national identity while offering compelling opportunities for creative expression.
Takao Tanabe
Life & Work
Price:
CA$40.00
ISBN: 9781487103293
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: The Canadian Art Library
Born in 1926 in the fishing community of Seal Cove, British Columbia, in 1937 Takao Tanabe moved with his parents and six siblings to Vancouver. His life was uprooted in 1942, when he and his family, among the 22,000 Japanese Canadians dispossessed and displaced by the government during the Second World War, were sent to an internment camp in the interior of B.C. Despite this challenging early life, Tanabe went on to forge a career that has changed the way we see and understand this country and its landscapes.
Alfred Pellan
Life & Work
Price:
CA$40.00
ISBN: 9781487103187
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: The Canadian Art Library
For fourteen years in the early twentieth century, Alfred Pellan (1906-1988) acted as a conduit between Canadian and European art. Pellan divided his time between Paris and Montreal, making a distinctive?though often controversial?impact on modernism in Canada.
Jin-me Yoon
Life & Work
Price:
CA$40.00
ISBN: 9781487103040
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: The Canadian Art Library
How can we move away from colonial ways of being? How do we create communities where sustainable relationships with our environment exist? How can we build a more equitable world? For over thirty years, these profound questions have been at the core of Korean Canadian artist Jin-me Yoon's (b.1960) groundbreaking work. Since the beginning of her career, she has explored questions of identity in national and global contexts, drawing on her experiences of immigration and migration to build an internationally acclaimed practice.
Jock Macdonald
Life & Work
Price:
CA$40.00
ISBN: 9781487102951
Pub Date: February 2023
Imprint: The Canadian Art Library
Jock Macdonald?s career as an artist took him from design and illustration to landscape painting and, from the early 1930s onward, to a lifelong search for expression through abstraction. At the base of that search was his belief that design and art-even abstract art-must be rooted in the natural world.
War Art in Canada
An Illustrated History
Price:
CA$60.00
ISBN: 9781487102944
Pub Date: December 2022
Imprint: The Canadian Art Library
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 far beyond familiar Western representations.
Kent Monkman: Being Legendary at the Royal Ontario Museum
Price:
CA$60.00
ISBN: 9781487102937
Pub Date: December 2022
Imprint: The Canadian Art Library
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 on the cultural world's most urgent topic: What does the museum mean in the twenty-first century?
Iljuwas Bill Reid
Life & Work
Price:
CA$40.00
ISBN: 9781487102654
Pub Date: July 2022
Imprint: The Canadian Art Library
Few twentieth-century artists were catalysts for the reclamation of a culture, but Iljuwas Bill Reid (1920-1998) was among them. The first book on the artist by an Indigenous scholar details Reid's...
Kent Monkman
Life & Work
Price:
CA$40.00
ISBN: 9781487102753
Pub Date: July 2022
Imprint: The Canadian Art Library
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 Canadian visual culture. Monkman's art is included in major Canadian and international public institutions and he is the only artist in this country to be commissioned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Kent Monkman: Life & Work is the first comprehensive book about the celebrated Monkman (b.1965). It is the only publication to trace the arc of his career, from his early abstract paintings to his rise to fame creating works that re-visit and reinterpret historic paintings to offer a powerful commentary on Indigenous resistance, remembrance, and the re-thinking of history.
Author Shirley Madill chronicles the origins of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle-Monkman's time-travelling, shape-shifting, gender-fluid alter ego,...
Outside the Palace of Me
Shary Boyle
Price:
CA$55.00
ISBN: 9781487102562
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: The Canadian Art Library
In Outside the Palace of Me, internationally renowned Canadian multidisciplinary artist Shary Boyle offers a powerful look at how we see and imagine ourselves and each other. This book, based on the...
Emily Carr
Life & Work
Price:
CA$40.00
ISBN: 9781487102326
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: The Canadian Art Library
Emily Carr (1871-1945) is one of Canada's most beloved artists. An independent woman and a Westerner who gained prominence at a time when female painters were not recognized internationally, her life and work reflect a profound commitment to the land she knew and loved. Carr's sensitive evocations reveal an artist grappling with spiritual questions inspired by the Canadian sea, land, and people. Although more than half a century has passed since her death, any artist who engages with the West Coast must contend with her legacy. Her paintings continue to inspire generations of artists.
Robert Houle
Life & Work
Price:
CA$40.00
ISBN: 9781487102647
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: The Canadian Art Library
Saulteaux artist Robert Houle (b.1947) has claimed space and authority for Indigenous representation in contemporary art for more than fifty years. This new publication celebrates his generational...
Helen McNicoll
Life & Work
Price:
CA$40.00
ISBN: 9781487102111
Pub Date: April 2020
Imprint: The Canadian Art Library
One of Canada's most important Impressionist artists, Helen McNicoll achieved remarkable international success during a tragically short career. Remembered for her bright and sunny rural landscapes, charming child subjects, and modern female figures, McNicoll's art helped introduce Canadians to the Impressionist movement at a time when it was still relatively unknown.
Revision and Resistance
Kent Monkman and mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Price:
CA$50.00
ISBN: 9781487102258
Pub Date: March 2020
Imprint: The Canadian Art Library
Revision & Resistance reveals the story of Kent Monkman's monumental 2019 diptych commission mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People) for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book celebrates Monkman's historic achievement with essays and contributions by today's most prominent voices on Indigenous art and Canadian painting.
Molly Lamb Bobak
Life & Work
Price:
CA$40.00
ISBN: 9781487102050
Pub Date: September 2019
Imprint: The Canadian Art Library
Canada's first woman war artist, Molly Lamb Bobak fought gender bias in the early twentieth century to become one of the country's most important artists. Today she is revered for her groundbreaking paintings of military life as well as depictions of urban activity and crowd scenes that capture daily life in Canada.
Halifax Art & Artists
An Illustrated History
CA$60.00
ISBN: 9781487103248
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: The Canadian Art Library
One of the oldest settlements in Canada, Halifax is the site of landmark firsts in Canadian art history, including the first public art exhibition and the first fine art association. Not only is Nova Scotia?s capital steeped in Maritime history, it is also home to one of the boldest, most radical contemporary art scenes in the country, a place known for its extraordinary spirit of innovation. Halifax Art & Artists: An Illustrated History brings these two spheres together, offering an exploration of creativity in the city from time immemorial to the present.
Photography in Canada, 1839-1989
An Illustrated History
CA$60.00
ISBN: 9781487103132
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: The Canadian Art Library
This publication is the first comprehensive book on the history of photography in Canada. It addresses an artform like no other: ever since its invention in 1839, photography has revolutionized the way that we understand ourselves and our country. From the moment the first visionary practitioners in Canada took up cameras to create portraits, capture landscapes, and record history, photographs have played a pivotal role in shaping national identity while offering compelling opportunities for creative expression.
Takao Tanabe
Life & Work
CA$40.00
ISBN: 9781487103293
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: The Canadian Art Library
Born in 1926 in the fishing community of Seal Cove, British Columbia, in 1937 Takao Tanabe moved with his parents and six siblings to Vancouver. His life was uprooted in 1942, when he and his family, among the 22,000 Japanese Canadians dispossessed and displaced by the government during the Second World War, were sent to an internment camp in the interior of B.C. Despite this challenging early life, Tanabe went on to forge a career that has changed the way we see and understand this country and its landscapes.
Alfred Pellan
Life & Work
CA$40.00
ISBN: 9781487103187
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: The Canadian Art Library
For fourteen years in the early twentieth century, Alfred Pellan (1906-1988) acted as a conduit between Canadian and European art. Pellan divided his time between Paris and Montreal, making a distinctive?though often controversial?impact on modernism in Canada.
Jin-me Yoon
Life & Work
CA$40.00
ISBN: 9781487103040
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: The Canadian Art Library
How can we move away from colonial ways of being? How do we create communities where sustainable relationships with our environment exist? How can we build a more equitable world? For over thirty years, these profound questions have been at the core of Korean Canadian artist Jin-me Yoon's (b.1960) groundbreaking work. Since the beginning of her career, she has explored questions of identity in national and global contexts, drawing on her experiences of immigration and migration to build an internationally acclaimed practice.
Jock Macdonald
Life & Work
CA$40.00
ISBN: 9781487102951
Pub Date: February 2023
Imprint: The Canadian Art Library
Jock Macdonald?s career as an artist took him from design and illustration to landscape painting and, from the early 1930s onward, to a lifelong search for expression through abstraction. At the base of that search was his belief that design and art-even abstract art-must be rooted in the natural world.
War Art in Canada
An Illustrated History
CA$60.00
ISBN: 9781487102944
Pub Date: December 2022
Imprint: The Canadian Art Library
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 far beyond familiar Western representations.
Kent Monkman: Being Legendary at the Royal Ontario Museum
CA$60.00
ISBN: 9781487102937
Pub Date: December 2022
Imprint: The Canadian Art Library
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 on the cultural world's most urgent topic: What does the museum mean in the twenty-first century?
Iljuwas Bill Reid
Life & Work
CA$40.00
ISBN: 9781487102654
Pub Date: July 2022
Imprint: The Canadian Art Library
Kent Monkman
Life & Work
CA$40.00
ISBN: 9781487102753
Pub Date: July 2022
Imprint: The Canadian Art Library
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 Canadian visual culture. Monkman's art is included in major Canadian and international public institutions and he is the only artist in this country to be commissioned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Kent Monkman: Life & Work is the first comprehensive book about the celebrated Monkman (b.1965). It is the only publication to trace the arc of his career, from his early abstract paintings to his rise to fame creating works that re-visit and reinterpret historic paintings to offer a powerful commentary on Indigenous resistance, remembrance, and the re-thinking of history.
Author Shirley Madill chronicles the origins of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle-Monkman's time-travelling, shape-shifting, gender-fluid alter ego,...
Outside the Palace of Me
Shary Boyle
CA$55.00
ISBN: 9781487102562
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: The Canadian Art Library
Emily Carr
Life & Work
CA$40.00
ISBN: 9781487102326
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: The Canadian Art Library
Emily Carr (1871-1945) is one of Canada's most beloved artists. An independent woman and a Westerner who gained prominence at a time when female painters were not recognized internationally, her life and work reflect a profound commitment to the land she knew and loved. Carr's sensitive evocations reveal an artist grappling with spiritual questions inspired by the Canadian sea, land, and people. Although more than half a century has passed since her death, any artist who engages with the West Coast must contend with her legacy. Her paintings continue to inspire generations of artists.
Robert Houle
Life & Work
CA$40.00
ISBN: 9781487102647
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: The Canadian Art Library
Helen McNicoll
Life & Work
CA$40.00
ISBN: 9781487102111
Pub Date: April 2020
Imprint: The Canadian Art Library
One of Canada's most important Impressionist artists, Helen McNicoll achieved remarkable international success during a tragically short career. Remembered for her bright and sunny rural landscapes, charming child subjects, and modern female figures, McNicoll's art helped introduce Canadians to the Impressionist movement at a time when it was still relatively unknown.
Revision and Resistance
Kent Monkman and mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
CA$50.00
ISBN: 9781487102258
Pub Date: March 2020
Imprint: The Canadian Art Library
Revision & Resistance reveals the story of Kent Monkman's monumental 2019 diptych commission mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People) for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book celebrates Monkman's historic achievement with essays and contributions by today's most prominent voices on Indigenous art and Canadian painting.
Molly Lamb Bobak
Life & Work
CA$40.00
ISBN: 9781487102050
Pub Date: September 2019
Imprint: The Canadian Art Library
Canada's first woman war artist, Molly Lamb Bobak fought gender bias in the early twentieth century to become one of the country's most important artists. Today she is revered for her groundbreaking paintings of military life as well as depictions of urban activity and crowd scenes that capture daily life in Canada.