The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
A Critical Study
As the first literary critical study of Vincent van Gogh’s letters, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh presents the painter’s letters as purposeful imaginative creations that chart van Gogh’s evolving conception of himself as an artist.
- Copyright year: 2014
Native Art of the Northwest Coast
A History of Changing Ideas
A remarkable volume that makes accessible for the first time and in one place a broad selection of more than 250 years of writing on Northwest Coast Native art.
- Copyright year: 2013
“My Own Portrait in Writing”
Self-Fashioning in the Letters of Vincent van Gogh
An inspiring book that argues for Van Gogh’s letters to be placed alongside the literary work of Blake and Eliot.
- Copyright year: 2015
Visiting with the Ancestors
Blackfoot Shirts in Museum Spaces
- Copyright year: 2016
Mobilizing Metaphor
Art, Culture, and Disability Activism in Canada
Mobilizing Metaphor illustrates how radical and unconventional forms of activism, including art, are reshaping the vibrant tradition of disability activism in Canada, challenging perceptions of disability and the politics that surround it.
- Copyright year: 2016
Reading Vincent van Gogh
A Thematic Guide to the Letters
Reading Vincent van Gogh is at once an interpretive guide to Van Gogh’s letters and a distillation of the key themes that reoccur throughout his collected letters.
Worldmaking as Techné
Participatory Art, Music, and Architecture
- Copyright year: 2017
Alan Caswell Collier, Relief Stiff
An Artist’s Letters from Depression-Era British Columbia
Aspiring artist Alan Caswell Collier’s letters, sketches, and paintings recall in vivid detail life in Canada’s relief camps and the crisis of youth unemployment during the Great Depression.
- Copyright year: 2018
Incorporating Culture
How Indigenous People Are Reshaping the Northwest Coast Art Industry
Incorporating Culture examines what happens when Indigenous people assert control over the commercialization of their art by instilling the market with their communities’ values.
- Copyright year: 2018
The Canadian Alternative
Cartoonists, Comics, and Graphic Novels
Contributors look at the myriad ways that English-language, Francophone, indigenous, and queer Canadian comics and cartoonists pose alternatives to American comics, to dominant perceptions, even to gender and racial categories.
- Copyright year: 2017
Ruling Out Art
Media Art Meets Law in Ontario’s Censor Wars
This fascinating account of Ontario’s 1980s’ censor wars shows that when art intersects with law, artists have the power to transform the law, and the law, in turn, can influence the concept of art.
- Copyright year: 2019
Inside Killjoy’s Kastle
Dykey Ghosts, Feminist Monsters, and Other Lesbian Hauntings
Exploring the making and experience of a lesbian feminist haunted house, this book reframes and reclaims queer feminist histories with humour, provocation, and theoretical sophistication.
- Copyright year: 2019
The Way Home
Crafted from memories, legends, and art, this powerful memoir tells the uplifting story of an Indigenous man’s struggle to reconnect with his culture and walk in the footsteps of his father and the generations of Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw artists that came before him.
- Copyright year: 2019
Everything is Relevant
Writings on Art and Life, 1991-2018
A compelling and illuminating collection of Canadian artist Ken Lum’s diverse writings from the early 1990s to the present.
- Copyright year: 2019
A Sojourn in Paradise
Jack Robinson in 1950s New Orleans
A celebration of the New Orleans life and early career of famed fashion photographer Jack Robinson.
- Copyright year: 2020
The Bomb in the Wilderness
Photography and the Nuclear Era in Canada
The Bomb in the Wilderness is an acutely perceptive analysis of Canada’s nuclear footprint through the medium of photography, revealing how we have represented, interpreted, and remembered nuclear activities since 1945.
- Copyright year: 2020
Uplift
Visual Culture at the Banff School of Fine Arts
The first major historical study of the Banff School of Fine Arts, Uplift reveals the foundational role of the school in shaping what is today the globally renowned Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.
- Copyright year: 2020
The Art of Birds
Grace and Motion in the Wild
- Copyright year: 2021
More Voice-Over
Colin Campbell Writings
- Copyright year: 2021