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Theodor Adorno once remarked that, “…every work of art is an uncommitted crime.” This book is a tribute to political artists who deviate from the mainstream and create art that engages with questions of societal oppression, survival, and resistance. It draws on...
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F.A.R. Art Series
Parution :
2018-09-25
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Ted Drover: Ships Artist
With a Foreword by Gerald Squires
This book is the first-ever publication of works by artistTed Drover, accompanied by text providing contextual background for the aspect of the history of Newfoundland and Labrador that each drawing represents....
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Flanker Press
Parution :
2018-04-11
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Maud Lewis has become one of Canada’s favourite folk artists, and her buoyant winter pictures of nature, pets, farm animals, and people at work and play are among her most charming. Her hands were twisted with arthritis, butMaud earned her living by painting Christmas...
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Goose Lane Editions
Parution :
2017-11-14
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The Manuela Dias book design and Illustration Awards - General illustrations category
Alexander Kennedy Ishister Award for Non-Fiction
Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book
McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award
This is a truly unique book. It offers an...
Editeur :
Éditions des Plaines
Parution :
2017-06-15
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Beginning in the mid-1960s and for the next thirty years, Vittorio was the king of poster art in Quebec and in Canada as a whole, where he also exhibited and won awards for his photographs, illustrations and comic strips. An artist with an innocent and often...
Editeur :
Juniper Publishing
Parution :
2015-11-26
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NON CLASSE
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In 1834, Bishop Michael Anthony Fleming stood on the crest of a hill in St. John’s, Newfoundland, and imagined a cathedral on the site. He had no land, no money, and no support, save that of an impoverished Irish congregation. Read the amazing story of how Fleming...
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Flanker Press
Parution :
2015-08-31
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The past two decades have witnessed a vigorous challenge to social work. A growing global convergence between the market and the public sector means that private sector values, priorities, and forms of work organization increasingly permeate social and community...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2015-04-20
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Ley lines mark alignments of sacred sites such as ridgetops and ancient megaliths and create pathways between them. This book too marks alignments and creates pathways, but its sacred sites are not monuments, they’re artworks and poems. Its various forms of exchange...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2014-10-22
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Frederick Coburn (1871-1960) was arguably Canada’s best-known painter at the peak of his career. Nick Fonda revisits Coburn’s work providing charming new insight into the painter and his surroundings. His method includes casting an inquisitive gaze on other accomplished...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2014-09-15
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The near-militant voluntarism of the active players in cultural mediation engenders certain expectations: after a large investment in cultural creation is it not justifiable to aspire to reach the largest possible audience? Nine researchers from France, Québec and...
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Presses de l'Université du Québec
Parution :
2012-02-29
Collection :
Culture et publics
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Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada offers two separate but interconnected strategies for reading alternative culture in Canada from the 1940s through to the present: first, a history of radical artistic practice in Canada and, second, a...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2011-09-23
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Will Gorlitz: nowhere if not here examines the art, background, and theoretical concerns of contemporary Canadian artist Will Gorlitz. Appreciated especially for his painting and drawing, Gorlitz produces imaginative and highly visual artwork that is further...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2011-04-12
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An authoritative work interspersed with nearly one hundred of John Ruskin’s Swiss drawings recounts his lifelong interest in Switzerland. Hayman provides a chronological account of Ruskin’s visits to Switzerland from his earliest travels in 1833 and 1835 and his...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2006-01-01
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This catalogue grew out the slytod exhibition at Gallery 1. 1. 1. from 19 October until 14 November 1997 by Diana Thorneycroft. The catalogue includes 20 of Thorneycroft’s silver prints, an Introduction by Serena Keshavjee, and essays by Martha Langford and Chris...
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University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
1998-01-01
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This book contributes to our knowledge and understanding of African religious objects and opens new avenues of research in the field of African art. Artists themselves, both African and non-African will find inspiration in the union of beauty and meaning displayed in...
Editeur :
Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
1996-01-01
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Before the First World War, Winnipeg was Canada's third-largest city and the undisputed metropolis of the West. Rapid growth had given the city material prosperity, but little of its wealth went to culture or the arts. Despite the city's fragile cultural veneer, the...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
1989-08-01
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A retrospective of the art of Winnipeg artist Kelly Clark (1935–1995), with many examples from various periods of his work. Foreword by Shirley Madill, Acting Chief Curator of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Essays by George Swinton (Kelly's Artmaking), Arthur Adamson (The...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
1986-01-01
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Within the context of a discussion of trends in folk art research, the author describes the social significance of the art of George Cockayne and provides a catalogue of his work described in his own words. Published in English.
Editeur :
Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
1983-01-01
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FitzGerald as Printmaker includes every known print made by the artist, most of them reproduced in actual size. The accompanying commentary describes the prints, the circumstances under which they were made, the artist’s comments about them, and the methods and...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
1982-01-01
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The folk art of the Swiss-German Mennonites living in the Waterloo, Ontario region is compared with that of the Dutch-German Mennonites from the same area. Traditional arts discussed include Fraktur, needlework, wood-working and cooking. Published in English.
Editeur :
Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
1979-01-01
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