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Serving both as a hands-on guide and reference, this book examines these problems, offering practical advice and solutions which can be easily implemented. Its useful "lessons" include governance, where to find help, care of collections, conservation, security, and...
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Oxford University Press
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1996
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In American Salons, Robert Crunden provides a sweeping account of the American encounter with European Modernism up to the American entry into World War I. Crunden begins with deft portraits of the figures who were central to the birth of Modernism, including James...
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Oxford University Press
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1993-01-28
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Setting Realism in its social and historical context, the author discusses the crucial paradox posed by Realist works of art - notably in the revolutionary paintings of Courbet, the works of Manet, Degas and Monet, of the Pre-Raphaelites and other English, American,...
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Penguin
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1991-01-31
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For many people, Native American architecture calls to mind the wigwam, tipi, iglu, and pueblo. Yet the richly diverse building traditions of Native Americans encompass much more, including specific structures for sleeping, working, worshipping, meditating, playing,...
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Oxford University Press
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1990-10-25
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Pubblicate per la prima volta nel 1550 e successivamente ampliate, Le Vite di Giorgio Vasari sono molto più di una semplice raccolta di biografie: sono l'atto di nascita della storia dell'arte come la intendiamo oggi. Artista egli stesso e attento osservatore del suo...
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Cactus
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2026-03-12
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“Classic Chines Quotes“ is a bilingual English/Chinese directory of ancient, modern and contemporary Chinese quotations produced over the centuries by personalities of all kinds and widely used in China.
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AngleV
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2026-02-25
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''A Child's History of Art'' by V.M. Hillyer and E.G. Huey is a comprehensive, chronological, and engaging introduction to art history for children, covering painting, sculpture, and architecture. It covers art from prehistoric times to modern masterpieces, often...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2026-02-20
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Painting Victoria is a loving tribute to a storied city from one of its most dedicated living artists, Robert Amos, and makes a wonderful gift for enthusiastic locals and new visitors alike.
When he first came to Victoria in 1974, local artist and art historian Robert...
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Touchwood Editions
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2025-10-21
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''Literature and Science,'' published in September 1963, was Aldous Huxley's last book - he died two months after it was published. In it, he strives to harmonize the scientific and artistic realms. He argues that language is what divides the two realms and makes...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2025-09-16
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At the height of his career, J.E.H. MacDonald’s paintings and oil sketches reveal a mastery of colour mixing, a sureness of brushstroke, and a deep understanding of compositional design. His striking landscapes and views of nature are an important artistic legacy and...
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Goose Lane Editions
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2025-03-18
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Every culture and society has read stories in the night sky. From the careful attention of astronomers across all times and all parts of the world to the search for alien life, the stories found in the shapes of constellations to the expansive imaginings of science...
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University of Calgary Press
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2025-01-15
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The Art of Making: Rediscovering the Blackfoot Legacy is a captivating entry into Jared Tailfeathers’ quest of cultural reclamation. Accompanied by his family and loyal dogs, Tailfeathers delves into his Indigenous heritage through hands-on, land-based exploration.The...
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UpRoute Books and Media
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2024-12-17
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Sewing new understandings
Indigenous beadwork has taken the art world by storm, but it is still sometimes misunderstood as static, anthropological artifact. Today’s prairie artists defy this categorization, demonstrating how beads tell stories and reclaim cultural...
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University of Manitoba Press
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2024-05-03
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Innovative textile-based artwork exploded across the Canadian Prairies in the second half of the twentieth century. Melding craft traditions with modern and modernist movements in art and theory, a diverse body of creators opened a beautiful new chapter in textile...
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University of Calgary Press
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2023-11-30
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Longlisted, First Nation Communities READ Award Honourable Mention, Alcuin Society Book Design Awards (Prose Illustrated) Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity offers a conversation between Indigenous Peoples of two regions in this time of political and...
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Goose Lane Editions
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2023-04-18
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The very first collection celebrating her work, Exovede in the Darkroom is a series of responses, critical and poetic, to Métis experimental filmmaker Rhayne Vermette’s visually explosive and materially intimate practice. It was while studying architecture that...
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Arbeiter Ring Publishing
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2023-04-15
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The story of artists in Western Canada, and how they changed the face of Canadian art
“Listen to the visual voices of artists. They tell us so poignantly who we are, what we must cherish, and what we must address as a society.” ? Patricia Bovey
Throughout her remarkable...
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University of Manitoba Press
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2023-02-03
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In her bold departure from conventional art criticism, Hannah Godfrey looks to the work of five contemporary queer visual artists, with attention to, and affection for, the wit, subversion, and many complexities of each of their practices. Shifting through written forms...
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Arbeiter Ring Publishing
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2023-01-01
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Film is the art form of our times. It has formed the background of our lives, informed visual arts practices, and formed our culture’s stories, its memory.Moments of Perception is a landmark book. The first history of twentieth and early-twenty-first-century Canadian...
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Goose Lane Editions
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2021-11-16
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Ernest Thompson Seton was a pre-eminent artist and naturalist of his time. The Anatomy of Animals contains sketch studies of the wild life found in Canada and the United States and is considered a useful reference book for artists who paint, carve or sculpt wild life....
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-11
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