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Tracings

Writing Art, 1975–2020

By Ian Carr-Harris; Introduction by Dan Adler
Concordia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Some Magnetic Force

Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald Writings

Concordia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Making History

Visual Arts and Blackness in Canada

UBC Press, On Point Press

Making History is an unprecedented reflection on the positioning of Black history and art within the Canadian cultural landscape.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Subject to Change

Writings and Interviews

Concordia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2022
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Rare Merit

Women in Photography in Canada, 1840–1940

UBC Press

Rare Merit illuminates the impact of women as portraitists, travel documentarians, photojournalists, fine artists, hobbyists, and printers in the early years of photography in Canada.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Mischief Making

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Art, and the Seriousness of Play

UBC Press

In a gorgeously illustrated exploration of the art of Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Mischief Making demonstrates how playful and punning gestures can shed light on serious subjects.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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So Much More Than Art

Indigenous Miniatures of the Pacific Northwest

UBC Press

So Much More Than Art reveals the fascinating practice of miniaturization in Indigenous Northwest Coast art as a subtle form of communication in the face of oppressive colonization.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Chromatic

Ten Meditations on Crisis in Art and Letters

Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies
  • Copyright year: 2021
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More Voice-Over

Colin Campbell Writings

Concordia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2021
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Uplift

Visual Culture at the Banff School of Fine Arts

UBC Press

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
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Everything is Relevant

Writings on Art and Life, 1991-2018

Concordia University Press

A compelling and illuminating collection of Canadian artist Ken Lum’s diverse writings from the early 1990s to the present.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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The Way Home

UBC Press, On Point Press

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
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The Canadian Alternative

Cartoonists, Comics, and Graphic Novels

University Press of Mississippi

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
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Mobilizing Metaphor

Art, Culture, and Disability Activism in Canada

UBC Press

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
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Native Art of the Northwest Coast

A History of Changing Ideas

UBC Press

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
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Creative Subversions

Whiteness, Indigeneity, and the National Imaginary

UBC Press

This book explores how whiteness and Indigeneity are articulated through commonplace symbols of Canadian identity and how the work of contemporary artists is subverting these nostalgic accounts of the past.

  • Copyright year: 2012
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Architecture and the Canadian Fabric

UBC Press

Architecture and the Canadian Fabric traces how culture and politics have influenced, and been influenced by, Canadian architecture from first contact to the postmodern era.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Design with Microclimate

The Secret to Comfortable Outdoor Space

Island Press

Arguing that a comfortable microclimate is the foundation of well-used outdoor places, Robert Brown provides useful guidelines for dealing with climate data, site assessment, microclimate modification, communication, design, and evaluation.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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On the Art of Being Canadian

UBC Press

Drawing on a wealth of artistic expression, this book explores how the arts and artists have shaped Canadian national identity.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Vanishing British Columbia

UBC Press
  • Copyright year: 2005
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