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Rites of Way

Edited by Mark Kingwell & Patrick Turmel
Subjects: Social Science, Urban Studies, Art, Cultural Studies
Series: Canadian Commentaries

There are many ways to approach the subject of public space: the threats posed to it by surveillance and visual pollution; the joys it offers of stimulation and excitement, of anonymity and transformation; ...

Something Cold and Hard Like Winter

By (artist) Shelley Niro
Contributions by Alicia Elliott
Foreword by Suzanne Luke
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Environmental Studies, Art

Something Cold and Hard like Winter showcases the movement of time through large scale photographs and video. The works speak to the narratives that surround the earth and the longevity of its existence, ...

Sustaining the West

Edited by Lisa Szabo-Jones & Liza Piper
Subjects: Environmental Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, 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 ...

Arts of Engagement

Edited by Dylan Robinson & 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. ...

Blazing Figures

By J.A. Wainwright
Subjects: Art

Robert Markle (1936–1990) was an infamous figure on the Canadian cultural scene for almost three decades. His paintings and drawings celebrating the female nude were deemed obscene by Ontario courts ...

Depicting Canada’s Children

Edited by Loren Lerner
Subjects: Art, Cultural Studies, Social Science, Child Studies
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Depicting Canada’s Children is a critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children from the seventeenth century to the present. Recognizing the importance of methodological diversity, ...

Exhibiting Digital Animalities

By Matthew Brower
Subjects: Art

Artists have been at the forefront of exploring the challenges of exploring human animal interactions in the age of risk. Documenting two major international art exhibitions, Exhibiting Digital Animalities ...

Holding Ground

Edited by Janine Marchessault & Julie Nagam
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Art

Holding Ground: Nuit Blanche and Other Ruptures investigates international methodologies in curatorial practice from Canada, France, England, Aotearoa New Zealand, the United States, and many more countries. ...

Land|Slide

Edited by Aleksandra Kaminska, Chloë Brushwood Rose, Janine Marchessault, and Jennifer Foster
Subjects: Art

A limited-edition exhibition catalogue of the Land|Slide: Possible Futures exhibition, which took place at the Markham Museum and Heritage Village in Markham, Ontario in 2013. The catalogue includes a ...

The Memory of Water

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

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 The Memory of Water—all of them accompanied ...