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 ...

Over the course of fifty years, distinguished Staff Sergeant (retired) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Alert Henry (Al) Lund amassed the larg...

Moving the Museum documents the reopening of the J.S. McLean Centre for Indigenous + Canadian Art with a renewed focus on the AGO's Indigenous art ...

This ground-breaking book explores the revolution that’s transformed New Zealand museums in recent decades, and is influencing how museums worldwid...

The settlement of Nako, at 3,700 m altitude in Upper Kinnaur, North India, and close to the Tibetan border was once part of the Western Tibetan Pur...

Illustrated with 150 enchanting paintings and historical photographs, some from as early as 1922, the author describes the history and motivation b...

In the late fifties, Ann Kujundzic, her husband and artist Zeljko, and three children -- with a fourth on the way -- packed up their lives in post-...

This book considers 250 works of art from across a vast timeline of 14,000 years, expanding the definition of what constitutes art to include aesth...

Through photos and interviews, this book is an extraordinarily intimate glimpse into the creative spaces and minds of fifty-two New Mexico artists ...

Te Papa holds New Zealand’s national art collection, whose origins date back to 1865 and the establishment of the then Colonial Museum (later the D...

This is the first intellectual biography of the Greek-American surrealist poet and art critic Nicolas Calas (1907–1988), who emerged on the scene i...

Tramp art describes a particular type of wood carving practiced in the United States and Europe between the 1880s and 1940s in which discarded ciga...

This book explores the appropriation of Oriental imagery within Danish and Norwegian 19th century nation-building. The project queries Edward Said'...

Learn to draw Native Art! First Nations artist Robert E. Stanley Sr. shares his knowledge and technique in rendering classic northwest native drawi...

In the first chapter on the German military’s unlikely function as an incubator of modernist art and in the second chapter on Adolf Hitler’s advoca...

This is the second volume of a series of ten books that discuss the collections of the Tropenmuseum and the histories and stories that accompany th...

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...

This engaging biography brings light to the life, art, and extraordinary contributions of Olive Rush (1873-1966), artist, illustrator, muralist, Na...

This is an introduction to the classical arts and crafts of the Ottoman period. Being both an academic and artist, Kuşoğlu discovers the subtle sec...

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...

In 2015, the Dutch collector Hans van Berkel, granted his Inuit (and Chukchi) art and handicraft collection to the National Museum of Ethnology, no...

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...

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...

In Denmark there has been a tendency to view expatriate art not as part of current global developments, but as expressions of ethnic cultures of li...

From Montana award-winning author Jill Trevelyan comes the first biography of Peter McLeavey, the charismatic, pioneering art dealer who since the ...

Photo: to do with light. Phyto: plants and flowers. Proto: the first, the original. Nitro: it blows up. From Troy to Hiroshima, Crimea to the nucle...

Literacy is broadly understood to refer to the ability to read and write. But the term is heavily value-laden and is often used to elevate print at...

When Samuel Beckett’s work first appeared, it was routinely described, by Adorno amongst others, as a clear example of European high culture. Howev...

When Vincent van Gogh picked up his pencil and set out on his artistic career, it was not with the intention of becoming a leader of the avant-gard...

This title is complimentary to Hancock House's first Mildred Valley Thornton book released in 2000, Buffalo People: Portraits of a Vanishing Nation...