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Towards an Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge Volume II

Presented in English and Mi’kmaq, the latest chapter in this ambitious series presents a remarkable and respectful collaboration between an Indigenous and non-Indigenous artist, deepening and diversifying ...

Rare Merit

Par (auteur) Colleen Skidmore
Catégories: Études sur les femmes

Rare Merit is a beautifully illustrated and astute examination of women photographers in Canada as it took shape in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Throughout, the camera was both a witness ...

Unvarnished

Par (auteur) Emily Carr
Édité par Kathryn Bridge
Catégories: Biographies (ouvrages généraux)

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scribblers and almost-forgotten typescripts amid drafts for her published stories, Unvarnished features among the last unpublished and highly personal ...

Let Go

A story of travail and triumph, Mark Huebner's wordless novel Let Go follows a laid-off ad man struggling to carry the deadweight of his past as he labours through a blizzard toward an unknown future.

Mary Pickford, Queen of the Silent Film Era

Par (artiste) George A. Walker
Catégories: Histoire de l’art

A successful actress whose work spanned 52 features, Mary Pickford helped establish the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the studio United Artists. She was the first woman to create her ...

This Is Not a Hoax

Par (auteur) Heather Jessup
Catégories: Recherche sur l’ethnicité

This Is Not a Hoax shows how the work of some contemporary artists and writers intentionally disrupts the curatorial and authorial practices of the country’s most respected cultural institutions: art ...

Saltwater Classics from the Island of Newfoundland

Par (auteur) Christine LeGrow & Shirley Scott
Catégories: Tricot
Séries: Saltwater Knits

Saltwater Classics will keep you toasty warm with beautiful hand-knitted hats, mitts, gloves, socks, and vamps. In this follow-up to the best-selling Saltwater Mittens, Christine LeGrow and Shirley A. ...

On the Curve

Par (auteur) Janet Nicol
Par (artiste) Sybil Andrews
Catégories: Monographies d’artistes

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 ...

Sculpture in Canada

Par (auteur) Maria Tippett
Catégories: Sculpture

Found in public spaces and parks, art galleries and university buildings, along riverbanks as well as in city squares, private gardens and even underwater, Canadian sculpture encompasses a range of materials ...

The Life and Art of Arthur Pitts

Par (auteur) Kerry Mason
Catégories: Histoire de l’art
Séries: 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 ...