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Alberta Art and Artists : An Overview
Patricia Ainslie
Hardcover - $59.95
Just as Canada is often overlooked or undervalued within the international art world, the province of Alberta has struggled against being overlooked within the national context, despite its rich art history and vigorous and ever-changing art scene. " ...
A Gathering of Flowers from Shakespeare
Gerard Brender a. Brandis
Paperback - $34.95
Gerard Brender Brandis is a renowned wood engraver, whose works of densely textured intricacy vibrate across your vision, drawing you into a microscopically magic world.'
Emily Carr : New Perspectives on a Canadian Icon
Emily Carr
Hardcover - $95.95
Emily Carr's life and work are familiar, but what kind of world shaped this fascinating artist? In the rigid Victorian era, she championed Northwest monumental art. A nature lover, she kept a boardinghouse in the city. Ten essays by distinguished cur ...
Jeff Wall
Thierry Duve
Paperback - $59.95
The work of Canadian artist Jeff Wall has established photography at the forefront of contemporary art. He deploys state-of-the-art film and computer technology while invoking the composition, scale and subject matter of painters such as Velazquez, G ...
Craft Perception and Practice, Volume 2 : A Canadian Discourse
Paula Gustafson
Paperback - $34.95
Canadian craft is here finally given its rightful place in the contemporary art scene. Well-known curators, art historians, and artists such as Glenn Allison, Amy Gogarty, Paul Mathieu, Paula Gustafson and Mary Pratt consider the tactile, sensual and ...
Craft Perception and Practice : A Canadian Discourse
Paula Gustafson
Paperback - $30.95
Canadian craft is here finally given its rightful place in the contemporary art scene. Well-known curators, art historians, and artists such as Glenn Allison, Amy Gogarty, Paul Mathieu, Paula Gustafson and Mary Pratt consider the tactile, sensual and ...
Tales of Ghosts : First Nations Art in British Columbia, 1922-61
Ronald W. Hawker
Paperback - $57.95
This book examines the complex functions that Northwest Coast objects played during an era previously known as the "Dark Ages of Northwest Coast Art," arguing that the art was in fact vital to public discourses on the status of First Nations people i ...
An Illustrated Alphabet for the Illiterate
Rudolf Kurz
Paperback - $31.95
Sin creates [ an inclination ] to sin; it engenders vice by repetition of the same acts. This results in perverse inclinations which cloud conscience and corrupt the concrete judgement of good and evil. Thus sin tends to reproduce itself and reinf ...