One of Canada's most evocative modern painters, Cree artist Dale Auger was a gifted interpreter of First Nations culture, using the cross-cultural ...

The Mexican Revolution of 1910 erupted with its century, the first great social movement of the era. When the dust had settled, it was the artists ...

The anthropology of Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is studied with special referecne to his frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, both the Ceiling (...

Mickalene Thomas's vivid paintings, collages, and photographs explode off the wall. Their larger-than-life women stare back and down at the viewer,...

Miller Gore Brittain (1912-1968) had an unerring sense of structure and composition. In the early 1930s, at the Art Students' League in New York, h...

Dans Miller Brittain : Quand les étoiles jetèrent leurs lances, Tom Smart démontre pour la première fois la cohésion de l'imagerie de Brittain et l...

This is a provocative and novel investigation of the psyches of sixty artists, predominantly from the world of film, theatre and television/radio -...

A century of landscape art inspired by the Mount Assiniboine area of the Canadian Rockies from 1899 to 2006. Jane Lytton Gooch's Mount Assiniboine:...

When Jane Gooch first camped at Lake O'Hara in 1975, she could not have foreseen how important the Rockies would become in her life. She travelled ...

Join artist Dale Kentwell on her journey of discovery into the heart of Outback Australia where she explores the essentials of artistic expression,...

Jim Cromartie first came to Nantucket as a college student, but for the past 35 years he has called the island home. As a young artist, his major p...

This beautiful volume illustrates hundreds of nautical treasures, items related to lives of seamen in past generations. Included are a variety of s...

No present without the past. No equality without feminism.Nekt wikuhpon ehpit chronicles the sources, inspiration, and personal circumstances that ...

The first volume of a series of ten books that discuss the collections of the Tropenmuseum and the histories and stories that accompany them. The b...

Die Autoren liefern Einblicke in eine von der Kritik weitgehend unbeachtete, aber dennoch extrem präsente Baukultur vom Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts b...

This is a collection of autobiographical essays by Paul J Stankard, recognised widely as one of the world's master glass artists. Stankard is parti...

Text in English, German & Spanish. Octavio Ocampo is one of Mexico‘s most prolific artists. Octavio was born on 28 February 1943 in Celaya, Gua...

This book conveys the artistic genius of T C Cannon (1946–1978) through his best and most iconic paintings and essays that offer a fresh and inclus...

The work of over seventy Native artists who create miniature silver seed pots is presented in this publication featuring over 240 examples from the...

Sybil Andrews was one of Canada’s most prominent artists working throughout the late twentieth century. From a cottage by the sea in Campbell River...

A series of beautiful photography books of previously unpublished work by leading and emerging contemporary photographers. Each book in the series ...

This book explores American landscape painting today, its relevance in the contemporary art world, and its historic roots. This volume profiles six...

Art lovers and outdoor enthusiasts alike will be captivated by this stunning, full-colour biography that celebrates and showcases the life and work...

During the 1950s and early 1960s the Sydney-based trance-artist and Pan-worshipper, Rosaleen Norton, was well known in Australia as ‘the Witch of K...

In May 2006 some fifteen artists from New Zealand took over the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge (UK) as part of Pasifika Styles...

Passion. Reason. Opposites attract.It is no secret that Tom Thomson (1877-1917) and Joyce Wieland (1930-1998) never met. Their art could not be fur...

Moving through five historic periods, this book weaves the colourful story of New Mexico's book artists and their dedication to a timeless craft. P...

A retrospective of eight years of painting, this book illustrates the different periods in the development of the artist. Born in Uccle, his creati...

Text in German. The title of Paul Wegener's film Hans Trutz im Schlaraffenland, dating from 1917, alludes to Pieter Bruegel's well-known picture Co...

The search for physical perfection began with the Greeks, who first competed nude in athletic games in the 8th century BCE and created their gods i...

Admire the beautiful images of professional photographer Graeme Mackay and then exercise your imagination by creating your own art works from the o...

A CBC New Brunswick Book List Selection"I start with an original object, break it, and transform parts of the piece into other materials. These pie...

The art of capturing an image through an improvised pinhole device traces back to ancient China and Greece through the Renaissance and reaching its...

This collection of over 140 curated posters by the revolutionary graphic artist Seymour Chwast provides context and insight into not only his five-...

New investigations have demonstrated that a number of pseudepigrapha provided the textual basis for features in biblical representations in early a...