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Old man's garden : the history and lore of southern Alberta wildflowers
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25141
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Brown, Annora
- Publisher
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781771603447
- Accession Number
- P2020-6
- Call Number
- 04.1 B81 2020
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Book on Rocky Mountain Book's website
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Uplift : visual culture at the Banff School of Fine Arts
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25538
- Medium
- 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
- Contents
- 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
- ISBN
- 9780774864527
- Accession Number
- P2022.07
- Call Number
- 08.3 R27u
- Collection
- Archives Library
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