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...
Art and architecture
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Author:Wise, Leonard, Smart, Tom, Atwood, MargaretSummary: - 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...
- Author:Leece, SharonSummary:
Featuring over 200 stunning photographs, this Chinese design book captures the modern, yet nostalgic style of the Chinese home. Twenty-first century China is a country on the move. As it hurtles into the future, a new revolution- that...
- Author:Leece, SharonSummary:
Chinese interior design is a kaleidoscope of competing influences: scholarly gardens versus opium dens, imperial palaces battling concrete-and-steel high-rises, rural simplicity fighting urban chaos China Style gives an insiders'...
- Author:Thorp, Robert L.Summary:
This book takes a look at Chinese art within a variety of contexts—archeological, cultural, historical, social, and ritual/religious. Organized both chronologically and thematically, it covers a full historical span and includes a wide...
- Author:Knapp, Ronald G.Summary:
Bridges, the least known and understood of China's many wonders, are one of its most striking and resilient feats of architectural prowess. Chinese Bridges brings together a thorough look at the marvels of Chinese bridge design from one...
- Author:Self, CarolineSummary:
Presented in an easy-to-understand way that is perfect for children, Chinese Brush Painting teaches the ancient art of Chinese calligraphy. For more than a thousand years, a traditional Chinese style of art-brush painting-has been used...
- Author:Walker, Liz.Summary:
We all want a sustainable future, but what does it look like, and how do we get there' In Ithaca, New York, a new culture is blossoming-one that values cooperation, local production, environmental stewardship, social justice, and...
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This book is published in conjunction with the first retrospective of artist Christi Belcourt's work: "UPRISING: The Power of Mother Earth--Christi Belcourt--A Retrospective with Isaac Murdoch," curated by Nadia Kurd. The book traces...
- Author:Woolaver, Lance, Brooks, BobSummary:
Maud Lewis has become one of Canada’s favourite folk artists, and her buoyant winter pictures of nature, pets, farm animals, and people at work and play are among her most charming. Her hands were twisted with arthritis, but Maud earned...
- Author:Tuck, Robert, Tuck, GrahamSummary:
Churches of Nova Scotia is as much a human interest book as it is about ecclesiastical buildings. Both text and photographs tell the story of more than 30 Nova Scotia churches, but in the telling, the relationship between the interior...
- Author:Starkey, DavidSummary:
What would the Son-of-Man get up to in present-day Rome' Would he wander the Galleria Borghese, loiter outside nightclubs, ride trams, tip accordionists' How would Keats feel about the neon Dior sign that flashes away above...
- Author:Finan, ThomasSummary:
Professor Finan examines the castle from a variety of contemporary perspectives, including those of history, archaeology, geography, and landscape studies. The course also covers the morphology of medieval fortifications and castles and...
- Author:Reilly, Kathleen M.Summary:
Profiles the systems that work together to keep urban areas running safely, discussing how cities have evolved since the first riverside settlements while outlining projects that explain facts about transportation, water systems, and...
- Author:Leggett, Kim.Summary:
Come along on the hunt to coveted country sources and the best secret antiquing spots, and learn how to create country farmhouse style in your city dwelling. Author Kim Leggett is the creator of City Farmhouse, an interior design...
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The town hall or city hall as a place of local governance is historically related to the founding of cities in medieval Europe. As the space of representative civic authority it aimed to set the terms of public space and engagement with...
- Author:Westfall, Carroll WilliamSummary:
Professor Carroll William Westfall delves into the classical principles of Western architecture, exploring features such as ornamentation, decoration, and innovation.
- Author:Martin-Fugier, AnneSummary:
"Comme vous, je suis désolé de ne pouvoir exposer cette année la série des Nymphéas... Je suis très difficile pour moi-même, c'est peut-être vrai, mais cela vaut mieux que de montrer des choses qui sont médiocres....
- Author:Seton, AlistairSummary:
Collecting Japanese Antiques is an excellent overview of the uniquely Japanese aesthetic and how it relates to Japanese culture. From the time Japan started trading with the West in the sixteenth century, Japanese arts and crafts have...
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