McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History – serie
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Jean Paul Riopelle and the Automatiste Movement
Inbunden, 2020
708 kr
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The artist Jean Paul Riopelle is best known for his renowned mature abstract style. In this fascinating history, François-Marc Gagnon begins with the artist's first paintings and his early commitment to objectivity to explore Riopelle's involvement with the Automatiste movement and its lasting …
Through Post-Atomic Eyes
Av Claudette Lauzon, John O'Brian
Inbunden, 2020
641 kr
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What does it mean to live in a post-atomic world? Photography and contemporary art offer a provocative lens through which to comprehend the by-products of the atomic age, from weapons proliferation, nuclear disaster, and aerial surveillance to toxic waste disposal and climate change. Confronting …
Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America
Material Culture in Motion, c.1780 - 1980
Av Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1852 kr
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Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America explores how close, collaborative looking can discern the traces of contact, exchange, and movement of objects and give them a life and political power in complex cross-cultural histories. Red River coats, prints of colonial places and …
Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America
Material Culture in Motion, c.1780 - 1980
Av Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
555 kr
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Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America explores how close, collaborative looking can discern the traces of contact, exchange, and movement of objects and give them a life and political power in complex cross-cultural histories. Red River coats, prints of colonial places and …
Photogenic Montreal
Activisms and Archives in a Post-industrial City
Av Martha Langford, Johanne Sloan
Inbunden, 2021
584 kr
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The agency of photographs is a recurrent concern within the context of the city. Whether found in architectural records, social documentary, photojournalism, or artistic practice, photographic objects are embedded in urban contestation, aesthetically charged by artists, reinserted into social …
Voluntary Detours
Small-Town and Rural Museums in Alberta
Häftad, 2021
462 kr
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After visiting hundreds of museums across Alberta, Lianne McTavish chronicles some of the most challenging and unexpected sites where the idea of the museum is being reshaped. The concept of the visit as a "voluntary detour" encapsulates the way visitors travel along backroads to find small-town …
Women at the Helm
How Jean Sutherland Boggs, Hsio-yen Shih, and Shirley L. Thomson Changed the National Gallery of Canada
Häftad, 2021
555 kr
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When Jean Sutherland Boggs was appointed to direct the National Gallery of Canada in 1966, she became the first woman to direct a major museum in Canada and the first to direct a national gallery anywhere in the world. The subsequent appointments of Hsio-yen Shih in 1977 and Shirley L. Thomson in …
Jackson's Wars
A.Y. Jackson, the Birth of the Group of Seven, and the Great War
Inbunden, 2022
757 kr
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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 …
Out of School
Information Art and the Toronto School of Communication
Av Adam Lauder
Inbunden, 2022
1103 kr
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Through a series of focused and interconnected case studies, Out of School explores the long history of information art associated with the Toronto School of Communication. It highlights the perspectives of artists inspired by the speculations of Marshall McLuhan and colleagues as well as the …
Unsettling Canadian Art History
Av Erin Morton
Häftad, 2022
613 kr
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Bringing together fifteen scholars of art and culture, Unsettling Canadian Art History addresses the visual and material culture of settler colonialism, enslavement, and racialized diasporas in the contested white settler state of Canada.This collection offers new avenues for scholarship on art, …
Out of the Studio
The Photographic Innovations of Charles and John Smeaton at Home and Abroad
Av John Osborne, Peter Smeaton
Inbunden, 2022
566 kr
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Photography, one of the most influential inventions of the nineteenth century, has been shaped by Canadian innovators. Among them are two Quebec men who have flown beneath the radar in studies of the history of photography: the Smeaton brothers.Out of the Studio documents the life, oeuvre, and …
Casa Loma
Millionaires, Medievalism, and Modernity in Toronto's Gilded Age
Av Matthew M. Reeve, Michael Windover
Inbunden, 2023
584 kr
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Leading architect E.J. Lennox designed Casa Loma for the flamboyant Sir Henry Pellatt and Mary, Lady Pellatt as an enormous castellated mansion that overlooked the booming metropolis of Toronto. The first scholarly book dedicated to this Canadian landmark, Casa Loma situates the famous "house on …
Variable Conditions
Para-computational Arts in Canada, 1965–1995
Av Adam Lauder
Inbunden, 2023
1103 kr
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Variable Conditions recovers and explores early Canadian encounters between computational media and contemporary art in the late twentieth century, charting a network of developments linking meteorology, computation, and the arts that arose long before the age of cloud computing.Essays uncover the …
Needle Work
A History of Commercial Tattooing in Canada
Inbunden, 2024
872 kr
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In 1891 J. Murakami travelled from Japan, via San Francisco, to Vancouver Island and began working in and around Victoria. His occupation: creating permanent images on the skin of paying clients.From this early example of tattooing as work, Jamie Jelinski takes us from coast to coast with detours …
History of Photography in Canada, Volume 1
Anticipation to Participation, 1839–1918
Inbunden, 2025
987 kr
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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 …
Needle Work
A History of Commercial Tattooing in Canada
Häftad, 2025
613 kr
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In 1891 J. Murakami travelled from Japan, via San Francisco, to Vancouver Island and began working in and around Victoria. His occupation: creating permanent images on the skin of paying clients.From this early example of tattooing as work, Jamie Jelinski takes us from coast to coast with detours …
Toronto Edwardian
Frank Darling, Architect of Canada’s Imperial Age
Inbunden, 2026
958 kr
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Beginning his career as an independent architect in the mid-1870s, Frank Darling came to prominence as the principal of Darling & Pearson Architects, designing a plethora of delightful bank buildings in the early twentieth century. Darling’s work aligned with the national ambitions of his clients …
Classicism in Canada
Ambition, Utopia, Hubris
Av Joan Coutu, David A. Galbraith
Inbunden, 2026
1089 kr
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The classical architectural and planning schemes conceived by Canada’s Anglo-settler elite in the early twentieth century embodied a prescriptive vision of power and grandeur for the country and its people on a scale almost unimaginable today. This provocative collection of essays examines the …
Hunter, the Crown, and the Cameras
Joseph Idlout and the Image of Sangussaqtauliqtilluta
Av Carol Payne
Inbunden, 2026
582 kr
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Joseph Idlout was one of the most widely recognized Inuit figures of his time, famous for his role in the film Land of the Long Day and for a still photograph of him and his family that appeared on the Canadian two-dollar bill. These as well as other films and photographs were made by Qallunaaq …
States of Observance
Contemporary Art and Surveillance Logic in Canada
Av Susan Cahill
Häftad, 2026
514 kr
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In the wake of the attacks of 11 September 2001, and amid the expansion of US-led security policy, surveillance quickly insinuated itself into the fabric of everyday life in Canada. Practices once confined to military and intelligence operations now shape civilian spaces, where observation feels …
Practice of Her Profession
Florence Carlyle, Canadian Painter in the Age of Impressionism
Av Susan Butlin
Inbunden, 2009
641 kr
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A compelling portrait of one of the most successful turn-of-the-century Canadian women painters
Bringing Art to Life
A Biography of Alan Jarvis
Inbunden, 2009
557 kr
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The extraordinary life and tragic fate of one of Canada's most iconic cultural figures
Cultural Work of Photography in Canada
Inbunden, 2011
641 kr
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The Cultural Work of Photography in Canada is an in-depth study on the use of photographic imagery in Canada from the late nineteenth century to the present. This volume of fourteen essays provides a thought-provoking discussion of the role photography has played in representing Canadian …
Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas
The Natural History of the New World, Histoire Naturelle Des Indes Occidentales
Av Louis Nicolas, François-Marc Gagnon m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1239 kr
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Part art, part science, part anthropology, this ambitious project presents an early Canadian perspective on natural history that is as much artistic and fantastical as it is encyclopedic. Edited and introduced by François-Marc Gagnon, The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas showcases …
Newfoundland Modern
Architecture in the Smallwood Years, 1949-1972
Inbunden, 2011
872 kr
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In over 220 drawings and photographs, Robert Mellin presents the development of architecture in the decades immediately following Newfoundland's 1949 union with Canada. Newfoundland's wholehearted embrace of modern architecture in this era affected planning as well as the design of cultural …
Museum Pieces
Toward the Indigenization of Canadian Museums
Häftad, 2011
497 kr
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Ruth Phillips argues that these practices are "indigenous" not only because they originate in Aboriginal activism but because they draw on a distinctively Canadian preference for compromise and tolerance for ambiguity. Phillips dissects seminal exhibitions of Indigenous art to show how changes in …
Rethinking Professionalism
Women and Art in Canada, 1850-1970
Av Kristina Huneault, Janice Anderson
Inbunden, 2012
872 kr
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The history of women and art in Canada has often been celebrated as a story of progress from amateur to professional practice. Rethinking Professionalism challenges this narrative by questioning the assumptions that underlie the category of artistic professionalism, a construct as influential for …
Allied Arts
Architecture and Craft in Postwar Canada
Häftad, 2012
468 kr
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During periods of close collaboration, championed by figures like John Ruskin and William Morris, architecture and craft were referred to as "the allied arts." By the mid-twentieth century, however, it was more common for the two disciplines to be considered distinct professional fields, with …
Official Picture
The National Film Board of Canada's Still Photography Division and the Image of Canada, 1941-1971
Av Carol Payne
Inbunden, 2013
641 kr
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Mandated to foster a sense of national cohesion The National Film Board of Canada's Still Photography Division was the country's official photographer during the mid-twentieth century. Like the Farm Security Administration and other agencies in the US, the NFB used photographs to serve the nation. …
Negotiations in a Vacant Lot
Studying the Visual in Canada
Av Lynda Jessup, Erin Morton m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
512 kr
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At a moment when the discipline of Canadian art history seems to be in flux and the study of Canadian visual culture is gaining traction outside of art history departments, the authors of Negotiations in a Vacant Lot were asked: is "Canada" - or any other nation - still relevant as a category of …
