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The New Spirit of Creativity
Work, Compromise, and the Art and Design University
Price:
$44.95
ISBN: 9781487502805
Pub Date: July 2022
This book traces the many alignments between contemporary artistic creativity and its formal organization within higher education.
Painting Place
The Life and Work of David B. Milne
Price:
$73.00
ISBN: 9781487540258
Pub Date: March 2021
Painting Place is an introduction to David B. Milne – the man, the painter, the printmaker, and the writer – and a tribute to his splendid gifts.
Sharing the Past
The Reinvention of History in Canadian Poetry since 1960
Price:
$85.00
ISBN: 9781487501044
Pub Date: August 2019
Sharing the Past examines the ways in which Canadian poets collaboratively nurtured the rise of social history as a discipline of historical study.
Contested Spaces, Counter-narratives, and Culture from Below in Canada and Québec
Price:
$108.00
ISBN: 9781442629905
Pub Date: February 2019
Contested Spaces investigates space and conflict in novels, short stories, life writing, and journalism from Canada and Québec by asking how counter-narratives challenge geographies of exclusion from below.
Yakuglas' Legacy
The Art and Times of Charlie James
Price:
$45.95
ISBN: 9781442626751
Pub Date: November 2016
Through a balanced reading of the historical period and James’ artistic production, Ronald W. Hawker argues that James’ shift to contemporary art forms allowed the artist to make a critical statement about the vitality of Kwakwaka'wakw culture
The Dignity of Every Human Being
New Brunswick Artists and Canadian Culture between the Great Depression and the Cold War
Price:
$45.95
ISBN: 9781442613898
Pub Date: February 2015
“The Dignity of Every Human Being” studies the vibrant New Brunswick artistic community which challenged “the tyranny of the Group of Seven” with socially-engaged realism in the 1930s and 40s.
Unarrested Archives
Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Canadian Women's Authorship
Price:
$42.95
ISBN: 9781442626423
Pub Date: December 2014
Using five case studies, Linda M. Morra explores the ways in which women’s archives have been uniquely approached and shaped by socio-political forces.
First Peoples of Canada
Masterworks from the Canadian Museum of Civilization
Price:
$62.00
ISBN: 9781442626126
Pub Date: October 2013
This beautifully designed, full-colour book presents a collection of 150 archaeological and ethnographic objects produced by Canada’s First Peoples – including some that are roughly 12,000 years old – that represent spectacular expressions of creativity and ingenuity.
Literature and Painting In Quebec
From Imagery to Identity
Price:
$49.95
ISBN: 9781442615946
Pub Date: June 2013
Focusing on the interplay between nature and culture in landscape representation, Literature and Painting in Quebec contends that both have reflected and fashioned the meaning of French-Canadian nationhood.
Public Art in Canada
Critical Perspectives
Price:
$51.00
ISBN: 9780802095688
Pub Date: March 2011
The rigorous essays and original works of art collected in this volume present a compelling demonstration of the strategies, aesthetic and otherwise, used by artists to elicit intellectual, sensual, or emotional responses that can only be obtained through artistic practices in public places.
Impulse Archaeology
Price:
$72.00
ISBN: 9781442627598
Pub Date: December 2005
Impulse Archaeology honours this important period in Canadian art and cultural history, recalling the early influence of like-minded publications from New York and the import of French theorists and European artists and writers into North America.
Scenography in Canada
Selected Designers
Price:
$42.95
ISBN: 9780802085542
Pub Date: February 2004
Rewa examines the work of seven of important theatre designers, artists who have been responsible for exciting initiatives in design during one of the most dynamic periods in the history of Canadian theatre, from the early 1970s to the late 1990s.
Early Canadian Printing
A Supplement to Marie Tremaine's 'A Bibliography of Canadian Imprints, 1751 - 1800'
Price:
$195.00
ISBN: 9780802042187
Pub Date: June 1999
In addition to verifying as many of Tremaine's original library locations as possible, and identifying additional copies of the items, the authors of the supplement have added many new entries that have come to light in the last 45 years.
David B. Milne
A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings
Price:
$777.00
ISBN: 9780802041029
Pub Date: December 1998
The first fully illustrated Catalogue Raisonné devoted to a major Canadian artist. Approximately 3000 illustrations nearly 200 colour plates adorn the catalogue, a complete bibliography of over 1700 citations and an itemized list for over 425 exhibitions.
Documents in Canadian Art
Price:
$43.95
ISBN: 9780921149064
Pub Date: June 1998
Documents in Canadian Art is the only book of its kind, a compilation of pivotal writings throwing light on the evolution of painting and sculpture in Canada over the past 180 years.
Fred Cumberland
Building the Victorian Dream
Price:
$183.00
ISBN: 9780802006790
Pub Date: December 1997
Fred Cumberland (1821-81) a Canadian Renaissance man: an architect, railway manager and politician, whose life and work changed Victorian Toronto’s urban landscape.

The New Spirit of Creativity
Work, Compromise, and the Art and Design University
$44.95
ISBN: 9781487502805
Pub Date: July 2022
This book traces the many alignments between contemporary artistic creativity and its formal organization within higher education.
Painting Place
The Life and Work of David B. Milne
$73.00
ISBN: 9781487540258
Pub Date: March 2021
Painting Place is an introduction to David B. Milne – the man, the painter, the printmaker, and the writer – and a tribute to his splendid gifts.
Sharing the Past
The Reinvention of History in Canadian Poetry since 1960
$85.00
ISBN: 9781487501044
Pub Date: August 2019
Sharing the Past examines the ways in which Canadian poets collaboratively nurtured the rise of social history as a discipline of historical study.
Contested Spaces, Counter-narratives, and Culture from Below in Canada and Québec
$108.00
ISBN: 9781442629905
Pub Date: February 2019
Yakuglas' Legacy
The Art and Times of Charlie James
$45.95
ISBN: 9781442626751
Pub Date: November 2016
Through a balanced reading of the historical period and James’ artistic production, Ronald W. Hawker argues that James’ shift to contemporary art forms allowed the artist to make a critical statement about the vitality of Kwakwaka'wakw culture
The Dignity of Every Human Being
New Brunswick Artists and Canadian Culture between the Great Depression and the Cold War
$45.95
ISBN: 9781442613898
Pub Date: February 2015
“The Dignity of Every Human Being” studies the vibrant New Brunswick artistic community which challenged “the tyranny of the Group of Seven” with socially-engaged realism in the 1930s and 40s.
Unarrested Archives
Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Canadian Women's Authorship
$42.95
ISBN: 9781442626423
Pub Date: December 2014
Using five case studies, Linda M. Morra explores the ways in which women’s archives have been uniquely approached and shaped by socio-political forces.
First Peoples of Canada
Masterworks from the Canadian Museum of Civilization
$62.00
ISBN: 9781442626126
Pub Date: October 2013
This beautifully designed, full-colour book presents a collection of 150 archaeological and ethnographic objects produced by Canada’s First Peoples – including some that are roughly 12,000 years old – that represent spectacular expressions of creativity and ingenuity.
Literature and Painting In Quebec
From Imagery to Identity
$49.95
ISBN: 9781442615946
Pub Date: June 2013
Focusing on the interplay between nature and culture in landscape representation, Literature and Painting in Quebec contends that both have reflected and fashioned the meaning of French-Canadian nationhood.
Public Art in Canada
Critical Perspectives
$51.00
ISBN: 9780802095688
Pub Date: March 2011
The rigorous essays and original works of art collected in this volume present a compelling demonstration of the strategies, aesthetic and otherwise, used by artists to elicit intellectual, sensual, or emotional responses that can only be obtained through artistic practices in public places.
Impulse Archaeology
$72.00
ISBN: 9781442627598
Pub Date: December 2005
Impulse Archaeology honours this important period in Canadian art and cultural history, recalling the early influence of like-minded publications from New York and the import of French theorists and European artists and writers into North America.
Scenography in Canada
Selected Designers
$42.95
ISBN: 9780802085542
Pub Date: February 2004
Rewa examines the work of seven of important theatre designers, artists who have been responsible for exciting initiatives in design during one of the most dynamic periods in the history of Canadian theatre, from the early 1970s to the late 1990s.
Early Canadian Printing
A Supplement to Marie Tremaine's 'A Bibliography of Canadian Imprints, 1751 - 1800'
$195.00
ISBN: 9780802042187
Pub Date: June 1999
In addition to verifying as many of Tremaine's original library locations as possible, and identifying additional copies of the items, the authors of the supplement have added many new entries that have come to light in the last 45 years.
David B. Milne
A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings
$777.00
ISBN: 9780802041029
Pub Date: December 1998
The first fully illustrated Catalogue Raisonné devoted to a major Canadian artist. Approximately 3000 illustrations nearly 200 colour plates adorn the catalogue, a complete bibliography of over 1700 citations and an itemized list for over 425 exhibitions.
Documents in Canadian Art
$43.95
ISBN: 9780921149064
Pub Date: June 1998
Fred Cumberland
Building the Victorian Dream
$183.00
ISBN: 9780802006790
Pub Date: December 1997
Fred Cumberland (1821-81) a Canadian Renaissance man: an architect, railway manager and politician, whose life and work changed Victorian Toronto’s urban landscape.