This tome is an extensive record of Canadas treasures including art, architecture, historical sites, and spots of natural beauty.
Art and architecture
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Author:Samuel, Alan, De Visser, JohnSummary: - Author:Hyde, LewisSummary:
Lewis Hyde's ambitious and captivating book brings to life the playful and disruptive side of the human imagination embodied in the Trickster mythology. Most at home on the road or at the twilight edge of town, tricksters are consummate...
- Author:Beard, MarySummary:
From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 years what does the face of power...
- Author:Osbaldeston, MarkSummary:
Finalist for a 2017 Hamilton Literary Award, the Kerry Schooley Award Unbuilt Hamilton presents the Ambitious City at its most ambitious, exploring the origins and fates of unrealized building, planning, and transportation proposals...
- Author:Osbaldeston, MarkSummary:
Discover the scrapyard statue planned for University Avenue, the flapper-era "CN Tower" that led to a decade of litigation, and an electric light-rail transit network proposed in 1915. Winner of the 2012 Heritage Toronto...
- Author:Mindenhall, DorothySummary:
Unbuilt Victoria celebrates the city that is, and laments the city that could have been. For most people, resident and visitor alike, Victoria, British Columbia, is a time capsule of Victorian and Edwardian buildings. From a modest fur-...
- Author:Atluri, TaraSummary:
Theodor Adorno once remarked that, "... every work of art is an uncommitted crime." This book is a tribute to political artists who deviate from the mainstream and create art that engages with questions of societal oppression...
- Author:Butcher, Alan D.Summary:
Artist Frances Gage, born in 1924 in Windsor, experienced both artistic recognition and acute despair in her life, yet she flourished in her work and as part of the contemporary Toronto art scene. A friend of Frances Loring and Florence...
- Author:Wall, Karen, Reichwein, PearlAnnSummary:
In 1933, the Banff School opened in the stunning surroundings of Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies. From its beginnings offering a single drama course, it has since grown into the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, a...
- Author:Tracey, DavidSummary:
Urban Agriculture is packed with ideas and designs for anyone interested in joining the new food revolution. First-time farmers and green thumbs alike will find advice on growing healthy, delicious, affordable food in urban settings....
- Author:Chambers, Ruth, Gogarty, AmySummary:
Utopic Impulses: Contemporary Ceramics Practice brings together ten essays and twenty artist projects to explore ceramics as a socially responsible practice. By framing particular ceramics practices as 'utopic impulses,' this anthology...
- Author:Smith, Gregory White, Naifeh, StevenSummary:
From the authors of Jackson Pollock: An American Saga comes an exquisitely detailed, compelling, and ultimately heartbreaking portrait of creative genius Vincent van Gogh.
- Author:Naifeh, StevenSummary:
Vincent van Gogh’s paintings look utterly unique - his vivid palette and boldly interpretive portraits are unmistakably his. Yet however revolutionary his style may have been, it was actually built on a strong foundation of paintings by...
- Author:Atkin, John, Lau, Evelyn, Lazarus, Eve, Partridge, Stephen, Partridge, Elise, Mackie, John, Simmers, Bren, Gold, KerrySummary:
Since 2004, an average of three houses a day are torn down, many of them original homes built for the middle working class in the 1920s, '30s, and '40s. Very few are deemed significant enough to merit heritage protection, but they are...
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In the last thirty years of the Soviet Communist project, Viktor Koretsky's art struggled to solve an enduring riddle: how to ensure or restore Communism's moral health through the production of a distinctively Communist...
- Author:Peers, Laura, Brown, Alison K.Summary:
In 2010, five magnificent Blackfoot shirts, now owned by the University of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum, were brought to Alberta to be exhibited at the Glenbow Museum, in Calgary, and the Galt Museum, in Lethbridge. The shirts had not...
- Author:Daley, DorisSummary:
Vistas of the West is a collection of poetry and visual art that celebrates the beauty and spirit of the Rocky Mountains, Western foothills, prairie landscapes, and the natural inhabitants of these beautiful environments.
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From the 1870s to the 1950s, waves of immigrants to Toronto - Irish, Jewish, Chinese and Italian, among others - landed in 'The Ward' in the centre of downtown. Deemed a slum, the area was crammed with derelict housing and...
- Author:Gopnik, BlakeSummary:
To this day, the name "Andy Warhol" conjures his famous images of soup cans and Marilyn Monroe. But though Pop Art became synonymous with Warhol's name and dominated the public's image of him, his life and work are...
- Author:Pitcher, ColetteSummary:
Have you ever been amazed by watercolor paintings that seem to spring to life before your eyes? Would you love to be able to paint with watercolors? Now, you can. Watercolor Painting For Dummies shows you the fun and easy way to create...
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