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The Art of Misadventure

By (author) Dave Brosha
Foreword by Curtis Jones
Categories: Biography: arts and entertainment

Experience the quirky missteps, humorous adventures, and professional development of a renowned Canadian photographer in this entertaining memoir.

 

Join Canadian photographer, explorer, Fellow of the ...

Unvarnished

By (author) Emily Carr
Edited by Kathryn Bridge
Categories: Biography: general

Culled from the handwritten pages in old-fashioned scribblers and almost-forgotten typescripts amid drafts for her published stories, Unvarnished features among the last unpublished and highly personal ...

On the Curve

By (author) Janet Nicol
By (artist) Sybil Andrews
Categories: Biography: arts and entertainment

Raised in Bury St Edmunds, England, Sybil Andrews was one of Canada’s most prominent artists working throughout the late twentieth century. This fully illustrated biography focuses on Andrews’ artistic ...

The Life and Art of Arthur Pitts

By (author) Kerry Mason
Categories: History of art
Series: The Unheralded Artists of BC

Arthur Pitts (1889–1972) born in the UK, came to Canada in 1914. He lived in Saanichton, British Columbia, attended the Westminster School of Art in London (1920) and the Vancouver School of Decorative ...

Should Auld Acquaintance

By (author) Melanie Murray
Categories: Biography: general

Melanie Murray traces the footsteps of Jean Armour and Robert Burns through the village of Mauchline, where they met and married, to their final home in Dumfries, attempting to discover the woman who ...

Yakuglas' Legacy

By (author) Ronald W. Hawker
Categories: Biography: general

“Ronald Hawker’s endeavour to explore the material objects—the pieces in the collections—and then make relevant, illuminating connections with broader social, political, and economic events is ...

The Life and Art of Mary Filer

Christina Johnson-Dean is a teacher and writer. Her books include of The Life and Art of Ina D. D. Uhthoff, shortlisted for the Victoria Butler Book Award; The Life and Art of Edythe Hembroff-Schleicher ...

The Life and Art of Jack Akroyd

By (author) Peter Busby
Introduction by Paul Wolf
Categories: History of art
Series: The Unheralded Artists of BC

“Mother Tongue’s noble rescue project, now eight in the Unheralded Artists of BC series… insightfully written… a sumptuously designed book, and contains a generous number of photographs of Akroyd’s ...

Arthur Erickson

Long-listed for the2014 RBC Taylor PrizeAn intimate portrait of the brilliant and controversial architect who put Canada on the world stage. Arthur Erickson, Canada's pre-eminent philosopher-architect, ...

The Architecture of Andrew Thomas Taylor

By the year 1900, architect Andrew Taylor had designed Bank of Montreal branches across the continent and much of McGill University, helped found the McGill School of Architecture, and played a critical ...