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Bold strokes - a century after its debut exhibition, the Group of Seven remains the topic of immense fascination - and debate
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25155
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- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Reid, Mark Collin
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- Reid, Mark Collin
- Responsibility
- Mark Collin Read
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- p.28 - 35
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- Library - Periodical
- Abstract
- Pertains to the 100th anniversary of the Group of Seven's debut exhibition - interview with Ian A.C. Dejardin - executive director of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection
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- In Canada's History, Vol. 100, No.3 (June-July)
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Brushes with climate change - Rockies Repeat project explores the intersection between conservation, art, history, and culture
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25227
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- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Campbell, Brooke
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- Campbell, Brooke
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- Brooke Campbell
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- p. 12 - 13
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- Library - Periodical
- Abstract
- Pertains to the Rockies Repeat Project which involves a group of women travelling to specific locations and re-creating the paintings of Peter Whyte and Catharine Robb Whyte with the end result of creating a documentary, exhibition and digital storytelling capsule
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- In Canada's History, Vol. 101, No.2 (April-May)
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Revision and resistance : mistiko^siwak (Wooden Boat People) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25281
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Monkman, Kent
- Publisher
- Toronto, ON : Art Canada Institute
- Call Number
- 06.1 M74r
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- Author
- Monkman, Kent
- Responsibility
- Kent Monkman
- Publisher
- Toronto, ON : Art Canada Institute
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 127 pages (2 folded) : illustrations (chiefly color)
- Abstract
- This book explores mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People) by the internationally renowned artist Kent Monkman. Commissioned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the epic diptych exhibited in The Met’s Great Hall revisits iconic works of art, notably the famed painting Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze. Monkman—featured in mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People) as his time-travelling, shape-shifting, gender-fluid alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle—reverses the colonial gaze of American and European art history through an Indigenous lens to present a powerful vision for the future. Revision and Resistance: mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the definitive documentation on Monkman, his practice, and two of the most important paintings of our times. (From publisher's website)
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- Introduction from the Met / by Randall Griffey -- Introduction from ACI / by Sara Angel -- Introducing Miss Chief Eagle Testickle / by Shirley Madill -- Inside Kent Monkman's Studio / by Jami Powell -- Revisioning History: An Index, Part I / by Ruth Phillips & Mark Phillips -- Welcoming the Newcomers by Ruth Phillips & Mark Phillips -- Revisioning History: An Index, Part II / by Sasha Suda -- Resurgence of the People / by Sasha Suda -- Waves of History / by Nick Estes.
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- 9781487102258
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- 06.1 M74r
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- Archives Library
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Old man's garden : the history and lore of southern Alberta wildflowers
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25141
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Brown, Annora
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- Calgary, Alberta : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 04.1 B81 2020
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- Author
- Brown, Annora
- Responsibility
- Annora Brown
- Mary-Beth Laviolette (introduction)
- Niitsitapi (Siksika) Bishop - the Right Reverand Sidney Black (forward)
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- xxii, 268 pages : illustrations (some colour)
- Subjects
- Botany
- Folklore
- Art
- Flowers
- Brown, Annora
- Abstract
- Through pen and ink illustrations and stories, Old Man’s Garden conveys the legends and folklore connected with Southern Alberta’s wildflowers, native plants, and Indigenous culture. Originally published in 1954, Annora Brown’s Old Man’s Garden is a Canadian classic that tells the story of Southern Alberta’s native plants and wildflowers through art and in consideration of Indigenous traditional knowledge from the region. Accompanying the new RMB edition of Old Man’s Garden, Sidney Black of Fort Macleod, the Indigenous Anglican Bishop for Treaty 7, provides his own commentary about Annora’s art and writing in relation to the Blackfoot, while independent art curator Mary-Beth Laviolette broadens the story about the artist’s contribution to Canadian art. Also included in this new edition are full-colour images of Annora’s later paintings of Blackfoot lodges (tipis) and regalia, the dramatic landscape of the Oldman RIver region such as Waterton National Park, and her abiding, lifelong regard for the flora of her homeland. According to Annora Brown, Old Man’s Garden is a “book of gossip about the flowers of the West.” A one-of-a-kind work featuring 169 black-and-white drawings of flowers and native plants, this classic text is about more than botany. Throughout its pages there is a sparkle to her stories of early exploration and settlement, her concern for conservation, and her regard for the Blackfoot Nation, and Indigenous culture. (from Rocky Mountain Books website)
- Contents
- Forward by Niitsitapi (Siksika) Bishop - the Right Reverand Sidney Black
- Introduction to the new edition by Mary-Beth Laviolette
- Introduction to the 1954 edition
- I Wi-suk-i-tshak
- II Trail Blazers
- III Moon-When-the-Grass-Turns-Green
- IV Old Man's Vegetable Garden
- V Old Man's Medicine Bag
- VI Dyes
- VII Desert and Swamp
- VIII Incense
- IX Moon-of-the-Flowers
- X Berries
- XI Trees
- Index
- Notes
- Originally published in 1954 by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. and 1970 by Gray's Publishing Co.
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- 9781771603447
- Accession Number
- P2020-6
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- 04.1 B81 2020
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- Archives Library
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- Book on Rocky Mountain Book's website
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Adjusting the lens : Indigenous activism, colonial legacies, and photographic heritage
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25525
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Publisher
- Vancouver, British Columbia : University of British Columbia Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 L62a
- Responsibility
- Edited by Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem Nielssen
- Publisher
- Vancouver, British Columbia : University of British Columbia Press
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- vi, 312 pages : illustrations (black & white) ; 24 cm
- Abstract
- Adjusting the Lens explores the role of photography in contemporary renegotiations of the past and in Indigenous art activism. In moving and powerful case studies, contributors analyze photographic practices and heritage related to Indigenous communities in Canada, Australia, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the United States. In the process, they call attention to how Indigenous people are using old photographs in new ways to empower themselves, revitalize community identity, and decolonize the colonial record. Adjusting the Lens presents original research in this emerging field in Indigenous photography studies, juxtaposing the historical and the contemporary across a range of geographically and culturally distinctive contexts. The transnational perspective of this exciting collection challenges old ways of thinking and meaningfully advances the crucially important project of reclamation. -- Provided by publisher
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- Reading a Regional Colonial Photographic Archive: Residential Schools in Southern Alberta, 1880-1974 / Carol Williams ; Camera Encounters: Bourgeois Settler Women's Adentures in Sami Areas of Norway / Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem Nielssen ; Negotiating Meaning: John Moller's Photographs in Early Twentieth-Century Scandinavian Literature / Ingeborg Hovik ; Reclaiming Pasts, Reclaiming Futures: Indigenous Re-workings of Historical Photography in North America / Laura Peers ; Distruption and Testimony: Archival Photographs, Project Naming, and Inuit Memory in Nunavut / Carol Payne, with contributions by Beth Greehorn, Piita Irniq, Manitok Thompson, Deborah Kigjugalik Webster, Sally Kate Webster, and Christina Williamson ; "Our Histories" in the Photographs of Others: Sami Approaches to Archival Visual Materials / Veli-Pekka Lehtola ; The Best Day for Me, Looking at These Old Photos: Returning Photographs to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander People by Jane Lydon and Donna Oxenham ; On Being with (a Photograph of) Sugar Bush Womxn: Towards Anishinaabe Feminist Archival Research Methods / waaseyaa'sin Chrisitne Sy ; Indigenous Culture Jamming: Suohpanterror and the Art of Articulating a Sami Political Community by Laura Junka-Aikio ; Negotiating Postcolonial Identity: Photography as Archive, Collaborative Aesthetics, and Storytelling in Contemporary Greenland / Mette Sandbye ; Photographic Portraits as Dialogical Contact Zones: The Portrait Gallery of Sapmi - Becoming a Nation at the Arctic University Museum of Norway / Hanne Hammer Stein ; Photographic Studies and Indigenous Photographies: Some Thoughts on Categories, Assumptions, and Theories / Elizabeth Edwards
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- 9780774866613
- Accession Number
- P2022.04
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- 07.2 L62a
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- Archives Library
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Uplift : visual culture at the Banff School of Fine Arts
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25538
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Reichwein, PearlAnn and Wall, Karen
- Publisher
- Vancouver, B.C. : UBC Press
- Call Number
- 08.3 R27u
- Publisher
- Vancouver, B.C. : UBC Press
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- xii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Abstract
- In 1933, the Banff School was established as a summer outreach program of the University of Alberta, offering a single course in drama. Since then, it has become a renowned cultural destination and educational institution, today known as the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. As PearlAnn Reichwein and Karen Wall recount in this engaging history, over its first four decades the school produced and circulated ideals of culture and liberal democratic citizenship that were intrinsic to the development of modern Canada. Uplift traces the role of the school in shaping arts and cultural education, as reflected in its array of interests from the artistic to the political, economic, and ideological. Situated within Banff National Park, the school and its surroundings combined stunning natural scenery and cultural capital in a symbolic national landscape. In an era of unstable cultural policy and state support for the arts, Uplift offers a nuanced account of one particular engine of nation building and tourism development. It draws attention to the past and present place of fine arts, culture, and the humanities in public education and in Canada's history, exploring what they mean to democracy, citizenship, and a life well lived. -- Provided by publisher
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- Introduction: Artists, Tourists, and Citizens ; Uplifting the People: Extension Education and the Arts ; Branding Banff: Arts Education, Tourism, and Nation Building ; Building a “Campus in the Clouds”: Space, Design, Modernity ; “Wholesome, Understandable Pictures”: Practices of Landscape Painting and Production of Landscapes ; Presence and Portrait: Indigeneity in the Park ; “Leading Artists of the World”: Teachers as Tourist Attractions and Pedagogues ; “Some Paint, Some Tan”: Students Coming to the Mountains ; Conclusion: The Arts, Nature, and Democracy
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- 9780774864527
- Accession Number
- P2022.07
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- 08.3 R27u
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Braided learning : illuminating indigenous presence through art and story
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25539
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Dion, Susan D.
- Publisher
- Vancouver, B.C. : Purich Books
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- 07.2 D62b
- Author
- Dion, Susan D.
- Publisher
- Vancouver, B.C. : Purich Books
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- 275 pages
- Abstract
- The Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Indigenous activism have made many Canadians uncomfortably aware of how little they know about First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples. In Braided Learning, Lenape-Potawatomi scholar and educator Susan Dion shares her approach to learning and teaching about Indigenous histories and perspectives. Métis leader Louis Riel illuminated the connection between creativity and identity in his declaration, “My people will sleep for a hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirits back.” Using the power of stories and artwork, Dion offers respectful ways to address challenging topics including treaties, the Indian Act, the Sixties Scoop, land claims, resurgence, the drive for self-determination, and government policies that undermine language, culture, and traditional knowledge systems. Braided Learning draws on Indigenous knowledge and world views to explain perspectives that are often missing from the national narrative. This generous work is an invaluable resource for Canadians trying to make sense of a difficult past, decode unjust conditions in the present, and work toward a more equitable future. -- Provided by publisher
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- Introduction: Indigenous Presence ; Requisites for Reconciliation ; Seeing Yourself in Relationship with Settler Colonialism ; The Historical Timeline: Refusing Absence, Knowing Presence, and Being Indigenous ; Learning from Contemporary Indigenous Artists ; The Braiding Histories Stories ; Conclusion: Wuleelham - Make Good Tracks ; Glossary and Additional Resources: Making Connections, Extending Learning
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- 9780774880794
- Accession Number
- P2022.04
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- 07.2 D62b
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Object lives and global histories in northern North America : material culture in motion, c. 1780-1980
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25572
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 L54o
- Responsibility
- Edited by Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, and Anne Whitelaw
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- x, [x], 450 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
- Subjects
- Museum
- Museum Studies
- Material culture
- North America
- Object
- History
- Indigenous
- Indigenous Art
- Abstract
- Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America explores how close, collaborative looking can discern the traces of contact, exchange, and movement of objects and give them a life and political power in complex cross-cultural histories. Red River coats, prints of colonial places and peoples, Indigenous-made dolls, and an Englishwoman's collection provide case studies of art and material culture that correct and give nuance to global and imperial histories. The result of a collaborative research process involving Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors, this book looks closely at the circumstances of making, use, and circulation of these objects: things that supported and defined both Indigenous resistance and colonial and imperial purposes. Contributors re-envision the histories of northern North America by focusing on the lives of things flowing to and from this vast region between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries, showing how material culture is a critical link that tied this diverse landscape to the wider world. An original perspective on the history of northern North American peoples grounded in things, Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America provides a key analytical and methodological lens that exposes the complexity of cultural encounters and connections between local and global communities.-- Provided by publisher
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- Acknowledgments ; Maps ; Introduction / Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, and Anne Whitelaw ; 1. Object lives: innovating methodology / Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, and Anne Whitelaw ; Sidebar 1. Management and methodology / Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, and Anne Whitelaw ; 2. Crossing worlds: hide coats, relationships, and identity in Rupert's Land and Britain / Laura Peers ; 3. "A typical Canadian outfit": the Red River coat / Cynthia Cooper ; Sidebar 2. The Huron-Wendat Capot / Cynthia Cooper ; Sidebar 3. The Red River coat and its commercial promotion / Cynthia Cooper ; 4. Colonizing winter: tobogganing, toboggan suits, and imperial agendas in the Northlands, c. 1800-1900 / Beverly Lemire ; Sidebar 4. Gifts of empire / Beverly Lemire ; 5. Peter Rindisbacher and the imagined North: circulations, realities, and representations / Julie-Ann Mercer ; 6. The wampum and the print: objects tied to Nicolas Vincent Tsawenhohi's London visit, 1824-1825 / Jonathan Lainey and Anne Whitelaw ; Sidebar 5. Active imperial networks / Jonathan Lainey and Anne Whitelaw ; 7. A brief history of the "Eskimo sweater" / Laurie K. Bertram ; 8. Clare Sheridan: British writer, sculptor, and collector in Blackfoot country, 1937 / Sarah Carter ; 9. Dolls, women's art, and Indigenous networks in the borderlands of northern North America, 1885-1945 / Katie Pollock ; 10. Dew claw bags, Indigenous women, and material culture in history and practice / Judy Half and Beverly Lemire ; 11. Inscribing the North West: hide jackets and colonial surveyors / Susan Berry ; Sidebar 6. Jackets in circulation / Susan Berry ; 12. From the sanatorium to the museum and beyond: the circulation of art and craft made by Indigenous patients at tuberculosis hospitals / Sara Komarnisky ; Figures ; Bibliography ; Contributors ; Index.
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- 9780228003991
- Accession Number
- P2022.13
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- 07.2 L54o
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Uninvited : Canadian women artists in the modern moment
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25674
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Milroy, Sarah
- Publisher
- Vancouver ; Berkeley : Figure.1
- Call Number
- 06.1 M64u
- Author
- Milroy, Sarah
- Responsibility
- McMichael Canadian Art Collection
- Publisher
- Vancouver ; Berkeley : Figure.1
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 317 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 29 cm.
- Abstract
- A monument to the talent of Canadian women artists in the interwar period, Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment provides a full and diverse cross-country survey of the art made by women during this pivotal time, incorporating the work of both settler and Indigenous visual artists in a stirring affirmation of the female creative voice. -- Provided by publisher.
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- Director's foreword / Ian A.C. Dejardin -- Uninvited: Canadian women artists in the Modern Moment / Sarah Milroy -- The politics of invitation: Canadian women's art history and the settler-colonial context / Kristina Huneault -- Teachers, colleagues, and friends: Canadian men and women artists in the modern period / Katerina Atanassova and Jocelyn Anderson -- Anne Savage / Jocelyn Anderson, Anna Hudson -- Winifred Petchey Marsh / Maureen Matthews -- Attatsiaq / Christina Williamson -- Kathleen Munn / Georgiana Uhlyarik -- Yvonne McKague Housser / Sara Angel, Alicia Boutilier -- Elizabeth Katt Petrant / Alexandra Kahsenni:io Nahwegahbow, Christi Belcourt -- Bess Harris / Ian M. Thom -- Regina Seiden Goldberg / Alma Mikulinsky -- Vera Weatherbie / Michelle Jacques -- Emily Coonan / Anne-Marie Bouchard -- Suzanne Duquet / Anne-Marie Bouchard -- Lilias Torrance Newton / Shelley Adler, Gerta Moray -- Prudence Heward / Jacques Des Rochers, Tobi Bruce, Michelle Jacques -- Yulia Biriukova / Ian A.C. Dejardin -- Mary Wrinch / John Geoghegan -- Marion Long / Anna Hudson -- Frances Loring and Florence Wyle / Catharine Mastin, Luis Jacob -- Elizabeth Wyn Wood / Renée van der Avoird -- Margaret Watkins / Sarah Parsons -- Mrs. Walking Sun / Tanya Harnett -- Kathleen Daly Pepper / Gerald McMaster -- Annora Brown / Mary-Beth Laviolette -- Elizabeth Styring Nutt / Sarah Fillmore -- Bridget Anne Sack / Jordan Bennett and Melissa Peter-Paul -- Isabel McLaughlin / Tobi Bruce -- Pegi Nicol MacLeod / Georgiana Uhlyarik, Shary Boyle -- Marian Dale Scott / Alicia Boutilier, Gwendolyn Owens -- Paraskeva Clark / Jocelyn Anderson, Panya Clark Espinal -- Sewinchelwet (Sophie Frank) / Sesemiya (Tracy Williams) -- Emily Carr / Kristina Huneault, Jisgang Nika Collison -- Note -- List of works -- Figures -- Further reading -- Acknowledgements.
- Notes
- Catalogue of an exhibition held at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection from September 10, 2021 to January 16, 2022
- ISBN
- 9781773271194
- Accession Number
- P2021.01
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- 06.1 M64u
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- Reading Room
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Flower : exploring the world in bloom
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25676
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Clarke, Victoria
- Publisher
- London ; New York : Phaidon Press Limited
- Call Number
- 06.1 C55f
- Author
- Clarke, Victoria
- Publisher
- London ; New York : Phaidon Press Limited
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 351 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 30 cm
- Subjects
- Art
- Botany
- Flowers
- Photography
- Abstract
- Takes readers on a journey across continents and cultures to discover the endless ways artists and image-makers have employed floral motifs throughout history. Showcasing the diversity of blooms from all over the world, Flower spans a wide range of styles and media - from art, botanical illustrations, and sculptures to floral arrangements, film stills, and textiles - and follows a visually stunning sequence with works, regardless of period, thoughtfully paired to allow interesting and revealing juxtapositions between them.
- ISBN
- 9781838660857
- Accession Number
- 2022.27
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- 06.1 C55f
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