topic:"art" found 4 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

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

Call Number: 06.1 C55f

Collection: Archives Library

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Indigenous media arts in Canada : making, caring, sharing

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2023

Publisher: Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Call Number: 07.2 C54m

Responsibility: Edited by Dana Claxton and Ezra Winton

Publisher: Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Published Date: 2023

Physical Description: 437 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Indigenous Art; Indigenous; Indigenous Artists; Indigenous Culture; Indigenous Peoples; Media

Abstract: A timely and crucial collection of essays and conversations focused on Indigenous-settler cultural politics and the ethics of Indigenous representation in Canada’s media arts that explores issues of narrative sovereignty, cultural identity, cultural resistance and decolonizing creative practices. -- Provided by publisher.

ISBN: 9781771125413

Accession Number: P2023.15

Call Number: 07.2 C54m

Collection: Archives Library

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Old man's garden : the history and lore of southern Alberta wildflowers

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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)

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

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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Upholding Indigenous economic relationships : nehiyawak narratives

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2023

Author: Wuttunee Jobin, Shalene

Publisher: Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press

Call Number: 07.2 W96u

Author: Wuttunee Jobin, Shalene

Publisher: Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press

Published Date: 2023

Physical Description: xv, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Indigenous Peoples; Indigenous Culture; Indigenous Artists; Indigenous Art; culture; Cree

Abstract: Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships explains settler colonialism through the lens of economic exploitation, using Indigenous methodologies and critical approaches. What is the relationship between economic progress in the land now called Canada and the exploitation of Indigenous peoples? And what gifts embedded within Indigenous world views speak to miyo-pimâtisiwin, the good life, and specifically to good economic relations? Shalene Wuttunee Jobin draws on the knowledge systems of the nehiyawak (Plains Cree people) - whose distinctive principles and practices shape their economic behaviour - to make two central arguments. The first is that economic exploitation was the initial and most enduring relationship between newcomers and Indigenous peoples. The second is that Indigenous economic relationships are constitutive: connections to the land, water, and other human and nonhuman beings form who we are as individuals and as peoples. This groundbreaking study employs Cree narratives that draw from the past and move into the present to reveal previously overlooked Indigenous economic theories and relationships, and provides contemporary examples of nehiyawak renewing these relationships in resurgent ways. In the process, Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships offers tools that enable us to reimagine how we can aspire to the good life with all our relations. -- Provided by publisher

Contents: 1. Grounding methods -- 2. Grounding economic relationships -- 3. nehiyawak peoplehood and relationality -- 4. Canada's genisis story -- 5. Warnings of insatiable greed -- 6. Indigenous women's lands and bodies -- 7. Theorizing Cree economic and governing relationships -- 8. Colonial dissonance -- 9. Principles guiding Cree economic relationships -- 10. Renewed relationships through resurgent practices --11. Upholding relations.

ISBN: 9780774865104

Accession Number: P2023.11

Call Number: 07.2 W96u

Location: Reading Room

Collection: Archives Library

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