History of art

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Refus global

Symbole incontestable de la modernité québécoise, à la fois manifeste et recueil d’œuvres d’art, Refus global est entré dans la légende avec ses mythes, ses héros, ses martyrs. Comment a-t-il ...

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 ...

Peace Dancer

Powerful illustrations accompany this skillfully told legend of the flood from the renowned Northwest Coast Legends series. Illustrated and told by renowned First Nations artist Roy Henry Vickers and ...

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 ...

Orca Chief

Winner of a Moonbeam Spirit Award (2015) and a finalist for the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award (2016), Orca Chief is the third in a series of Northwest Coast legends by renowned ...

The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

By (author) Patrick Grant
Categories: History of art
Series: Cultural Dialectics

As Grant demonstrates, quite apart from furnishing a highly revealing self-portrait of their author, van Gogh's letters are compelling for their imaginative and expressive power, as well as for the perceptive ...

Du coq à l'âme

Lauréat du prix Champlain 2015. « Un véritable coffre aux trésors. » —Le Devoir

Saisissez l’âme subtile, vive, ironique, parfois contestataire, ici traditionnelle et rationnelle, là indisciplinée ...

The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas

Part art, part science, part anthropology, this ambitious project presents an early Canadian perspective on natural history that is as much artistic and fantastical as it is encyclopedic. Edited and introduced ...

First in Canada

By (author) Jonathan Anuik
Categories: History of art
Series: TBS

Jonathan Anuik, PhD, is a scholar of Aboriginal education, children?s rights and legal status in historical and contemporary Canada, lifelong learning, and Métis history. Originally from Saskatchewan, ...

Honouring Tradition

By (author) Glenbow Museum
Categories: History of art

To explore the diverse ways this art can be understood, the Glenbow Museum invited Aboriginal elders, leaders and artists to share their perspectives with non-Native museum staff. The resulting dialogue ...