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Series: Fly on the WallThe Best of Kevin TobinPaperback
Kevin Tobin9781778530494
$29.95ART
Jul 08, 2025
A curated collection of the best-of-the-best from renowned cartoonist Kevin Tobin — Fly on the Wall captures some of the most iconic moments from Newfoundland’s past and present with a recognizably sharp wit and a dose of the province’s famous humour. Fly on the Wall doesn’t just collect the best of 40 years of Kevin Tobin’s editorial cartoons for The Telegram (“The Evening Telegram” when he began), it tracks 40 years of Newfoundland and Labrador’s history: politics, social movements, sports, celebrity, boondoggles, feel good stories, schemes,... + Read More
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Series: McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art HistoryA History of Photography in Canada, Volume 1Anticipation to Participation, 1839-1918Hardcover
Martha Langford9780228023685
$85.00HISTORY
Jun 17, 2025
From early reports of the invention to its wide application during World War I, the idea of photography created anticipation and participation in the modern world. The first volume of A History of Photography in Canada captures this phenomenon by looking at hundreds of photographs generated in and about Canada-in-the-making and by listening to the chords they struck in the collective imagination. Emphasizing technological readiness and cultural eagerness for the medium, Martha Langford shows how photography served ideals of progress and improve... + Read More
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Series: Biography and memoirsCanada's Photographer l Photographe du CanadaOn the World Stage l Sur la scène mondialeHardcover
Jean-Marc Carisse9780776644790
$59.95ART Age (years) from 15
May 28, 2025
Behind every photo, there is a story… And Jean-Marc Carisse tells the story well. The award-winning photographer and author has captured more than five decades of events and people that have shaped Canadian culture and captivated the world’s attention. Carisse photographed national and global leaders, royals, entertainers, icons, heroes, and world-renowned personalities; he brings us backstage with him as he encounters and captures celebrities such as Paul Anka, Charles Aznavour, David Bowie, Fidel Castro, Leonard Cohen, Céline Dion, Bob Dylan,... + Read More
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Series: Harley ParkerThe McLuhan of the MuseumPaperback
Gary Genosko9781772127935
$29.99DESIGN
May 15, 2025
This is the first book about the life and work of Harley Parker (1915-1992), Canadian museum exhibition designer, typographer, and painter. As friend and collaborator of media luminary Marshall McLuhan, Parker's influence extended far beyond the realm of art. In this groundbreaking intellectual biography, Genosko shows that Parker’s unique perspective on museums is based on his application of McLuhan’s medium theory to exhibition design. His emphasis on the role of the senses anticipated much of contemporary sensory studies, which will bring hi... + Read More
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Series: SceneHow the 1960s Transformed Canadian ArtHardcover
Harry Malcolmson9781487560263
$55.00ART
May 12, 2025
The 1960s transformed art in Canada. The Scene traces the remarkable reshaping of the Canadian art landscape during that era. Written by renowned art critic Harry Malcolmson, the book offers a captivating insider’s perspective on how a surge of artists, galleries, collectors, and critics propelled Canadian art into the global spotlight. Malcolmson identifies the catalysts that ignited this artistic renaissance, including an outpouring of pride in the country linked to Canada's Centennial, Expos ’67, and the Toronto City Hall. With rich anecdote... + Read More
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Series: The Culture BoxMuseums as MediaPaperback
Harley Parker9781772127942
$29.99ART
May 15, 2025
In The Culture Box, Harley Parker applies Marshall McLuhan’s medium theory to the museum, analyzing the museum as the site of many media and specifying the ways in which designer-communicators can engage in inter-sense design to connect audiences and artifacts. Parker argues that museums should be in the business of retraining the sensory perception of visitors, and that they can foster cultural engagement, participation, and empathy. In order to accomplish this, he recommends the construction of what he calls a “new centre,” emphasizing both “... + Read More
The renowned Cree artist unmasks a whitewashed, Eurocentric history through provocative paintings full of sexuality and dramaOne of Canada’s most renowned artists, interdisciplinary Cree artist Kent Monkman challenges the art historical narrative of settler cultures that colonized First Peoples from North America. He incorporates influences from the canon of European and Euro-American painting, reframing historical, contemporary and speculative future Indigenous experiences. Taking inspiration from Western artists such as George Catlin, as well... + Read More
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Series: paskwāwi masinahikewina/Prairie WritingBead TalkIndigenous Knowledge and Aesthetics from the FlatlandsPaperback
Carmen L. Robertson9781772840650
$27.95ART
May 03, 2024
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 identity. Whether artists seek out and share techniques through YouTube videos or in-person gatherings, beading fosters traditional methods of teaching and learning and enables intergenerational transmissions of pattern and skill. In Bead Talk, editors Carmen Robertson, Judy Anderson... + Read More
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Series: Being in BeingThe Collected Works of a Master Haida MythtellerPaperback
Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay9781771623759
$29.95HISTORY
Oct 28, 2023
Being in Being contains three masterpieces by legendary Haida mythteller Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay. The shortest recounts the high points of the legend of his family. The second, Raven Travelling, is the longest and most complex version of the story of the Raven ever recorded on the Northwest Coast. The third is The Qquuna Cycle, a narrative poem of nearly 5,500 lines, one of the true masterpieces of North American literature.Robert Bringhurst’s eloquent and vivid translations of these works are supplemented by explanatory notes that suppl... + Read More
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Series: Nine Visits to the MythworldTold by Ghandl of the Qayahl LlaanasPaperback
Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas9781771623773
$26.95HISTORY
Oct 28, 2023
In the Fall of 1900, a young American anthropologist named John Swanton arrived in the Haida country, on the Northwest Coast of North America, intending to learn everything he could about Haida mythology. He spent the next ten months phonetically transcribing several thousand pages of myths, stories, histories and songs in the Haida language. Swanton met a number of fine mythtellers during his year in the Haida country. Each had his own style and his own repertoire. Two of them—a blind man in his fifties by the name of Ghandl, and a septuagenar... + Read More
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Series: James Clarke HookPainter of the SeaHardcover
Juliet McMaster9780228014454
$49.95ART
Oct 01, 2023
Though his father had faced bankruptcy, James Clarke Hook (1819–1907) nevertheless managed to paint himself into country-gentlemanhood, becoming famous for his landscapes of British coastal scenes and his ability to evoke not just the sights but also the sounds and even the smell of the sea. James Clarke Hook, Juliet McMaster’s lively biography of the brilliant but underappreciated Victorian painter, brings the reader through Hook’s rigorous training at the Royal Academy Schools, his travelling studentship in Florence and Venice, and his work a... + Read More
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Series: Pictures on the WallBuilding a Canadian Art CollectionHardcover
Michael Audain9781771623742
$60.00ART
Sep 30, 2023
The deeply personal story of a milestone Canadian art collection. “There are many ways to collect art, many motivations and points of departure. In my estimation, Michael Audain’s is of the socially beneficial variety: avid and personal enough to cultivate the eye, local and deep enough to generate knowledge. Would that his approach were more common. This generous book shows how it’s done.” (Marc Mayer, C.M., former director and CEO of the National Gallery of Canada.) Michael Audain’s passion for art began when he was a teenager, taping reprodu... + Read More
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Series: Making HistoryVisual Arts and Blackness in CanadaPaperback
Julie Crooks9780774890649
$50.00ART
Feb 15, 2023
Making History is an unprecedented and boundary-breaking exploration of Black history and art in Canada. It brings together poems, artist statements, art portfolios, and essays from scholars and artists, including NourbeSe Philip, Afua Cooper, Chantal Gibson, and Rinaldo Walcott. These showcase a careful and thoughtful understanding of Black aesthetics, while discussing the presence of Black contemporary art in Canadian institutions and offering perspectives on contemporary and historical art practices. The many voices and points of view within... + Read More
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 career as a gallery director, curator, and author, Patricia Bovey has tirelessly championed the work of Western Canadian artists. Western Voices in Canadian Art brings this lifelong passion to a crescendo, delivering the most ambitious survey of Western Canadian art to date. Begi... + Read More
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Series: The Art of Adam YoungHardcover
Adam Young9781550819397
$39.95ART
Aug 26, 2022
***THE GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLER LIST*** A colourful journey through Newfoundland and Labrador as seen through the distinctive, whimsical style of internationally renowned artist Adam Young. Highlighting the last ten years of Adam Young’s artistic work in Newfoundland and Labrador, this book features over 100 paintings and sketches based on the artist’s representation and vision of the Atlantic coast. Inspiration for Young’s work comes from the stark beauty of the landscape and architecture and the warmth of the people who live here. His medi... + Read More
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Series: McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art HistoryJackson's WarsA.Y. Jackson, the Birth of the Group of Seven, and the Great WarHardcover
Douglas Hunter9780228010760
$65.00ART
May 15, 2022
A captivating account of the formative years of one of Canada’s best-known artists, Jackson’s Wars follows A.Y. Jackson’s education and progress as a painter before he was a well-known artist and his time on the battlefield in Europe, before he cast his lot in with a group of like-minded Toronto artists.Jackson fought many battles: he was a feisty and opinionated combatant when he crossed swords with critics, collectors, museums, galleries, and fellow painters as an emerging artist. Moving from Montreal to Toronto in 1913, he became a key figur... + Read More
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Series: Emily Carr CollectedUnabridged editionPaperback
Ian Thom9781771000802
$24.95ART
May 17, 2013
A smartly packaged, affordably priced collection of the works of a Canadian icon.Nearly seventy years after her death, Emily Carr's works continue to capture the grandeur of British Columbia's landscape and define our vision of the nation. The approximately one hundred works reproduced in this collection showcase the breadth of Carr's career, from early watercolours in Skidegate and Alert Bay on the northwest coast to charcoal sketches in mid-career to the stunning oils of trees, ravens, and mountains that characterized her later career.Beautif... + Read More
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Series: Defiant SpiritsThe Modernist Revolution of the Group of SevenPaperback
Ross King9781553658825
$34.95ART
Jul 25, 2011
A Globe 100 Book of the Year for 2010 and shortlisted for the 2011 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction.A Governor General's Award-winning author recounts the turbulent years during which a group of young Canadian painters went from obscurity to international renown.Beginning in 1912, Defiant Spirits traces the artistic development of Tom Thomson and the future members of the Group of Seven, Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A. Y. Jackson, Franz Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J. E. H. MacDonald, and Frederick Varley, over a dozen years in ... + Read More
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Series: Inuit ModernMasterworks from the Samuel and Esther Sarick CollectionPaperback
Gerald McMaster9781553657781
$24.99ART
Nov 08, 2010
A gorgeous retrospective on the transformation of Inuit art in the 20th century, mirroring the vast and poignant cultural changes in the North.In response to a rapidly changing Arctic environment, Inuit have had to cope with the transition from a traditional lifestyle to the disturbing realities of globalization and climate change. Inuit art in the latter half of the 20th century reflects the reciprocal stimulus of contact with Euro-Canadians and embodies the evolution of a modern Inuit aesthetic that springs from an ancient cultural context, c... + Read More
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Series: Hundreds and ThousandsThe Journals of Emily CarrPaperback
Emily Carr9781553651727
$26.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 18, 2006
FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1966, after the legendary artist and writer Emily Carr died in 1945, Hundreds and Thousands consists of her journals from 1927 to 1941. She began keeping a journal in 1927, when, after years of her work being derided and ignored, came unexpected vindication and triumph when the Group of Seven accepted her as one of them and encouraged her to overcome the years of despair when she stopped painting. Hundreds and Thousands is the sixth of seven books by Emily Carr to be published by Douglas & McIntyre in a completely redesigned ... + Read More
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Series: Christopher PrattHardcover
Josee Drouin-Brisebois9781553651451
$19.95ART
Sep 20, 2005
Christopher Pratt is one of the handful of recognized artists who have defined Newfoundland in the eyes of the world. This fall, in honour of his 70th birthday, the National Gallery of Canada will launch a major exhibition to mark the occasion. With its emphasis on paintings from the past twenty years, this will be the first exhibition highlighting his recent production. Josee Drouin-Brisebois's text explores how Pratt interprets the geographical, social and political landscape of Newfoundland through his personal response to his surroundings, ... + Read More
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Series: Emily Carr and Her DogsFlirt, Punk and LooPaperback
Emily Carr9781553650959
$14.95ART
Apr 26, 2005
Emily Carr tells the story of her joys and tribulations raising Old English Sheep Dogs in Victoria -- especially Flirt, Punk and Loo -- from her decision to start a kennel to the sad day when she had to close it. In the 25 vignettes that make up the book, she brings the affection, loyalty and nature of dogs to life. Her writing is appealingly direct and honest, a breath of fresh air laced with humour and wry self-awareness. Reproduced for the first time are 12 of Emily Carr's lively drawings of dogs, which she put together in an entertaining ca... + Read More
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Series: Growing PainsThe Autobiography of Emily CarrPaperback
Emily Carr9781553650836
$22.95ART
Mar 17, 2005
Completed just before Emily Carr died in 1945, Growing Pains tells the story of her life, beginning with her girlhood in pioneer Victoria and going on to her training as an artist in San Francisco, England and France. She writes about the frustration she felt at the rejection of her art by Canadians, of the years of despair when she stopped painting and of the unexpected vindication and triumph she felt when the Group of Seven accepted her as one of them. Carr is a natural storyteller whose writing is vivid and vital, informed by wit, nostalgic... + Read More
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Series: The Book of SmallPaperback
Emily Carr9781553650553
$22.95ART
May 28, 2004
The legendary Emily Carr was acclaimed as both an artist and a writer. Her first book, Klee Wyck, won the prestigious Governor General’s Literary Award for non-fiction in 1941. The Book of Small is a collection of thirty-six word sketches in which Emily Carr relates anecdotes about her life as a young girl in the frontier town of Victoria. She notes: "There were a great many things that I only half understood, such as saloons and the Royal Family and the Chain Gang." The young Emily, who gave herself the nickname "Small," was an intense, obse... + Read More
Before winning recognition for her painting and writing, Emily Carr built a small apartment building with four suites that she hoped would earn her a living. But things turned out worse than expected, and in her forties, the gifted artist found herself shoveling coal and cleaning up other people's messes. The House of All Sorts is a collection of forty-one stories of those hard-working days and the parade of tenants -- young couples, widows, sad bachelors and rent evaders. Carr is at her most rueful, but filled with energy and an inextinguishab... + Read More
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Series: Klee WyckPaperback
Emily Carr9781553650256
$22.95ART
Oct 01, 2003
The legendary Emily Carr was primarily a painter, but she first gained recognition as a writer. Her first book, published in 1941, was titled Klee Wyck ("Laughing One"), in honour of the name that the Native people of the west coast gave her as an intrepid young woman. The book was a hit with both critics and the public, won the prestigious Governor Generals' Award and has been in print ever since. Emily Carr wrote these twenty-one word sketches after visiting and living with Native people, painting their totem poles and villages, many of them ... + Read More
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Series: Understanding Northwest Coast ArtA Guide to Crests, Beings and SymbolsPaperback
Cheryl Shearar9781550547825
$22.95ART
Jun 01, 2000
The first section of this book features an alphabetical list of words relating to Northwest Coast art, with definitions, descriptions and explanations and synopses of the major myths associated with them. As an aid to identification and understanding, many of the crests, beings and symbols are illustrated in the 6 black-and-white reproductions of contemporary works of art. The entries cover everything: crests such as Eagle, Dogfish or Dragonfly; ancestral beings such as Creek Woman or Thunderbird; mythic beings such as Raven, the Chief of the U... + Read More
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Series: The Raven Steals the LightDrawings by Bill ReidPaperback
Bill Reid9781550544817
$18.95FICTION
Feb 01, 1996
An elegant reissue of a timeless collection of Haida myths, with a new preface by Claude Levi-Strauss. Ten masterful, complex drawings by Bill Reid are accompanied by ten episodes from Haida mythology told by Bill Reid and Robert Bringhurst. The result brings Haida art and mythology alive as never before in an English-speaking world. The collection includes, says Reid, "a good selection of bestiality, adultery, violence, thievery and assault, for those who like that sort of thing."
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Series: The Art of Emily CarrPaperback
Doris Shadbolt9780888944412
$45.00ART
Nov 01, 1992
This book represents the culmination of Doris Shadbolt's long fascination with the work of Carr, a painter she views as one of the strongest and most individual of Canadian artists. It reflects more than a decade of meticulous research, and excerpts form Carr's own prolific writings have been skillfully woven into the narrative, combining with exquisite reproductions of over 200 paintings, charcoals and drawings, two thirds of them in colour, almost all of them specially photographed for this book. Never swallowed by the mainstream in art, Emi... + Read More
Bold, inventive indigenous art of the Northwest Coast is distinguished by its sophistication and complexity. It is also composed of basically simple elements which, guided by a rich mythology, create images of striking power.In Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast, the elements of style are introduced; the myths and legends which shape the motifs are interpreted; the stylistic differences between the major cultural groupings are defined and illustrated. Raven, Thunderbird, Killer Whale, Bear: all the traditional forms are here, deftly a... + Read More
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