Art, Music & Pop Culture

Shadowlight: A Photographer’s Life

Freeman Patterson’s landscapes – far-flung places seemingly untouched by humans – reveal a symmetry and pattern of light, line, and colour. For Patterson, nature is beauty, spiritual reflection, and potential grace.Some may find such iconic ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Rock, Rhythm and Reels: Canada’s East Coast Musicians on Stage

By Lee Fleming, ed.

Writing about music, mused Woody Allen, is like dancing about architecture. So in preparing Rock, Rhythm and Reels, author Lee Fleming went straight to the source to uncover the charm and passion underlying the flourishing ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis

By Lance Woolaver

The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis is a heart-warming companion to a new exhibit, scheduled to tour nationally, illustrating the life and art work of Nova Scotia’s most loved native painter. Everything about Maud Lewis ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

The Symbolist Prints of Edvard Munch

By Elizabeth Prelinger and Michael Parke-Taylor with Peter Schjeldahl

It’s enough to make you scream, the way some curators can’t see the forest for the trees, or the message for the medium. The Symbolist Prints of Edvard Munch is no exception. In the life ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Looking West: Photographing the Canadian Prairies, 1858-1957

By Brock V. Silversides

“Sadly, there are no ‘classic’ Canadian prairie images, no photographs that are known to every school child,” according to Medicine Hat author and archivist Brock V. Silversides. Traditionally, the prairies have not been considered exotic ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

E. B. Cox: A Life in Sculpture

By E. B. Cox

Toronto artist E. B. Cox has been working in the nearly forgotten medium of stone sculpture for more than five decades. The solitariness of his occupation has never steered him away from chiselling giant chunks ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Tom Thomson: Trees

By Joan Murray

Between 1911 and 1917, Tom Thomson painted more than 200 canvases and oil sketches of trees. Although he travelled widely, Ontario’s Algonquin Park was one of his favourite spots to work. Curator and critic Joan ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Burlesck

By Neil Wedman

Vancouver artist Neil Wedman draws inspiration from cartoons of the 1940s and ’50s, when the voice of social commentary, criticism, and satire was found in the mass market magazine cartoon, à la New Yorker. Wedman ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Inverted Line

By George A. Walker

The 74 woodblock engravings that make up The Inverted Line ($15.95 paper 0-88984-214-0, 176 pp., The Porcupine’s Quill) are only a small selection of what George A. Walker has produced over the years. The 40-year-old ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Artful Dodger: Images & Reflections

By Nick Bantock

In his new book, Nick Bantock ushers readers into a virtual studio, seats them in comfortable chairs, and regales them with anecdotes, all the while flipping through his vast portfolio, presenting reams of fantastic paintings, ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

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