This Is Not A Hoax

By Heather Jessup
Subjects: Art, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Indigenous Studies

This Is Not a Hoax shows how the work of some contemporary artists and writers intentionally disrupts the curatorial and authorial practices of the country’s most respected cultural institutions: art ...

Wittgenstein's Ethics and Modern Warfare

By Nil Santiáñez
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Ethics, Art

This original and insightful book establishes a reciprocal relationship between Ludwig Wittgenstein’s notion of ethics and the experience of war. It puts forth an interpretation of Wittgenstein’s ...

Arts of Engagement

Edited by Dylan Robinson and Keavy Martin
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Performing Arts, Art
Series: Indigenous Studies

Arts of Engagement focuses on the role that music, film, visual art, and Indigenous cultural practices play in and beyond Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools. Contributors ...

DADA, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Effect

By R. Bruce Elder
Subjects: Film & Media, Art
Series: Film and Media Studies

This book deals with the early intellectual reception of the cinema and the manner in which art theorists, philosophers, cultural theorists, and especially artists of the first decades of the twentieth ...

Finding Diefenbunker

By Sara Matthews and Justin Anstett
Contributions by Patricia Molloy
Subjects: Art, Political Science, International Relations, Biography & Autobiography
Series: CMTS Dialogues

The text discusses the legacy of the Cold War in Canada by looking at Prime Minister Diefenbaker’s “Diefenbunkers”—eleven nuclear fallout shelters constructed in secret in the late 1950s to protect ...

Creating Together

Edited by Diane Conrad and Anita Sinner
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Art

Creating Together explores an emerging approach to research that combines arts practices and scholarship in participatory, community-based, and collaborative contexts in Canada across multiple disciplines. ...

Sustaining the West

Edited by Liza Piper and Lisa Szabo-Jones
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Cultural Studies, Environmental Studies, Art
Series: Environmental Humanities

Western Canada’s natural environment faces intensifying threats from industrialization in agriculture and resource development, social and cultural complicity in these destructive practices, and most ...

Ley Lines

Edited by H. L. Hix
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Poetry, Art

Ley lines mark alignments of sacred sites such as ridgetops and ancient megaliths and create pathways between them. This book too marks alignments and creates pathways, but its sacred sites are not monuments, ...

The Memory of Water

By Allen Smutylo
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Life Writing, Art
Series: Life Writing

Over the last forty years, Canadian adventurer, writer, and artist Allen Smutylo has experienced some of the wildest and most captivating waters imaginable in all corners of the globe. The stories in ...

Imagining Resistance

Edited by J. Keri Cronin and Kirsty Robertson
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Art
Series: Cultural Studies

Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada offers two separate but interconnected strategies for reading alternative culture in Canada from the 1940s through to the present: first, a history ...