The inspiring biography of Ghanaian artist El Anatsui whose handmade sculptures, created from discarded bottle tops, have received international acclaim and been showcased around the world. "If you touch something, you leave a charge on...
Art and architecture
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Author:Goldberg, AlisonSummary: - Author:Wilkinson, Tom.Summary:
We don't just look at buildings: their facades, beautiful or ugly, conceal the spaces where we live. We are born, work, love, and die in architecture. We buy and sell it, rent and squat it, create and destroy it. All of these...
- Author:Macdonald, CopthorneSummary:
June 1997 marked the opening of the Confederation Bridge which spans the Northumberland Strait and connects Prince Edward Island to New Brunswick. The bridge, designed and built by the international consortium Strait Crossing, is one of...
- Author:Steven, PeterSummary:
In Brink of Reality, Peter Steven examines the convergence of video-art and social-issue documentary, from the 1940s to the present. No other book has explored contemporary Canadian documentary so thoroughly, or provided as broad a view...
- Author:Quinn, BridgetSummary:
Historically, major women artists have been excluded from the mainstream art canon. Aligned with the resurgence of feminism in pop culture, Broad Strokes offers an entertaining corrective to that omission. Art historian Bridget Quinn...
- Author:King, RossSummary:
On August 19, 1418, a competition concerning Florence's magnificent new cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore was announced: "Whoever desires to make any model or design for the vaulting of the main Dome ... shall do so before the...
- Author:Lamant, LudovicSummary:
Personne ne comprend plus rien à l'Europe, ses traitésindigestes, ses crises à répétition. Pour pallier cetteincompréhension, Ludovic Lamant a pris l'expression « construction européenne » au pied de la lettre et s...
- Author:Macaulay, DavidSummary:
Reveals the how and why behind some of the most fascinating and enduring structures humankind has ever created.
- Author:Bennett, JimSummary:
You’ve always admired beautiful calligraphy, but you probably figured it was way too hard to master, right? Calligraphy is actually much easier than you ever dreamed. All you need is the right guide and you’ll be up to speed in no time...
- Author:Bourrie, MarkSummary:
Three beautiful gothic buildings loom over the Ottawa River just below the historic Chaudiere Falls. They are the seat of Canada's federal government, visited by thousands of people each year. Canada's Parliament Buildings,...
- Author:Murray, JoanSummary:
Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century is a survey of the richest, most controversial and perhaps most thoroughly confusing centuries in the whole history of the visual arts in Canada - the period from 1900 to the present. Murray shows...
- Author:Braid, Kate, Larsen, WayneSummary:
Presenting three titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. Canada’s vast wilderness presents many opportunities for artists to capture its beauty in their distinct styles, and the country...
- Author:Braid, Kate, Larsen, WayneSummary:
Presenting three titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. Canada’s vast wilderness presents many opportunities for artists to capture its beauty in their distinct styles, and the country...
- Author:King, Julie AdairSummary:
Veteran author Julie Adair King demystifies the high-end features of the new Canon T1i. The Canon E.O.S. Rebel T1i is the newest camera offered in Canon's popular Rebel line of digital S.L.R.s-and sells for less than $900. Packed with...
- Author:Schmorleitz, Morton S.Summary:
Behind the glossy facade of modern Japan there survive remnants-some of them surprisingly well preserved-of the country's feudal past, of warlords and fighting samurai, of shoguns and sequestered emperors, of princes and peasants....
- Author:Casey, Caroline, Fischbach, Chris, Schultz, SarahSummary:
"Coffee House Press, a major nonprofit publisher, recently launched a Kickstarter for a book examining the Internet's cat video fetish. The book, if the Kickstarter campaign reaches its $25,000 goal, will be titled Cat is Art Spelled...
- Author:Baker, Peter E., Fleming, John A.Summary:
A visual journey showcasing how history can make a house a home, a reminder of the strength of character and ingenuity entrenched in Canada’s history. Inspired by the 150th anniversary of Canadian confederation — the same year...
- Author:Wise, Leonard, Smart, Tom, Atwood, MargaretSummary:
An Officer of the Order of Canada, Chevalier of France’s Order of Arts and Letters, and recipient of the Order of Ontario, painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, and author, Charles Pachter is one of Canada’s best-loved and most...
- Author:Kelly, Erin I., Rembert, WinfredSummary:
An artist's odyssey from Jim Crow era, Georgia to the Yale Art Gallery. A memoir in prose and paintings that celebrates Black life and summons readers to confront painful and urgent realities at the heart of American history and...
- Author:Flerlage, RaeburnSummary:
A stunning collection of photographs from Chicago’s foremost blues photographer. When Raeburn Flerlage was asked to take a picture of Memphis Slim in 1959, he began a career that would produce some of the most fascinating and important...
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