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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
Parution :
2021-11-11
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In this intimate investigation of the artistic process, Lezli Rubin-Kunda explores the nuanced path of creative work and the way artists make sense of home and place within their art practice and their lives. Rubin-Kunda is a multidisciplinary artist who examines these...
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Goose Lane Editions
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2019-05-07
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The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons—the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly...
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KTHTK
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2019-03-19
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Through the story of the brilliant but conflicted young Raskolnikov and the murder he commits, Fyodor Dostoyevsky explores the theme of redemption through suffering. “Crime and Punishment” put Dostoyevsky at the forefront of Russian writers when it appeared in 1866 and...
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KTHTK
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2019-03-19
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SHORT-LISTED Manuela Dias Design and Illustration Awards, 2020
SHORT-LISTED Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction, 2020
Since 1970, Manitoba artist Don Proch has built an astonishing body of work evoking a semi-mythical Prairie past and an unsettled and...
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University of Manitoba Press
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2019-03-01
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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
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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
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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
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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...
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Éditions des Plaines
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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...
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Juniper Publishing
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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
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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
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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
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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...
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Baraka Books
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2014-09-15
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For many years, Maud Lewis was one of Nova Scotia's best-loved folk painters. In the 1990s she was embraced by the rest of the country when the landmark exhibition of her work The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis travelled across Canada. By the time the tour was over,...
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Goose Lane Editions
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2013-01-01
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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
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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...
Editeur :
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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