Looking West: Photographing the Canadian Prairies, 1858-1957

“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

Cowboy: The Legend and the Legacy

By B.A. Payton, Gary Fiegehen, Jim Skipp

Thanks to dime store novels and Hollywood movies, the cowboy life has become a bloated myth that continues to endure. Even a stand-up president like Theodore Roosevelt, who spent two years bronco-busting in the American ... Read More »

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

A Song of Lilith

By Joy Kogawa, Lilian Broca, illus.

A joint project by novelist and poet Joy Kogawa and artist Lilian Broca, A Song of Lilith ($21.95 paper 1-55192-366-1, 110 pp., Polestar Book Publishers) seeks to reclaim the legendary figure of Lilith, the original ... Read More »

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

Greg Curnoe: Life and Stuff

Greg Curnoe was one of Canadian art’s leading lights in the 1960s and ’70s. Until his untimely death in 1992, he remained a critical force for a truly Canadian art. Curnoe raised the personal to ... Read More »

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

Creatures of the Deep

Erich Hoyt’s Creatures of the Deep ($40 cloth, 1-55209-340-9, 160 pp., Firefly Books) guides readers down through the layers of a world often imagined yet rarely seen. From surface waters to the oceans’ blackest depths, ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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