The Canadian Art Library Fall 2019
Table of Contents 2 Molly Lamb Bobak: Life & Work by Michelle Gewurtz, Sara Angel 3 Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald: Life & Work by Michael Parke-Taylor, Sara Angel 4 Greg Curnoe: Life & Work by Judith Rodger, Sara Angel 5 Shuvinai Ashoona: Life & Work by Nancy G. Campbell, Sara Angel
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Molly Lamb Bobak Life & Work By (author) Michelle Gewurtz , Introduction by Sara Angel Sep 25, 2019 | Hardcover , Dust jacket | $40.00 Canada’s first woman war artist, Molly Lamb Bobak fought gender bias in the early twentieth century to become one of the country’s most important artists. Today she is revered for her groundbreaking paintings of military life as well as depictions of urban activity and crowd scenes that capture daily life in Canada.
The daughter of celebrated photographer Harold Mortimer-Lamb, Vancouver- born artist Molly Lamb Bobak (1920–2014) joined the Canadian Women’s Army Corps in 1942 and was sent overseas to London, becoming the first Canadian woman war artist. She brashly captured women’s military life and roles during the Second World War in her paintings, illustrated diaries, and drawings, depicting 9781487102050 female military training as well as dynamic scenes of marches and parades. The Canadian Art Library Upon her return to Canada, Bobak married fellow war artist Bruno Bobak, and the Art Canada Institute couple settled in Fredericton, New Brunswick, where they lived and worked for over half a century. One of the first Canadian female painters to earn her living as an artist, Bobak was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1973 and Subject presented with the Order of Canada in 1995. ART / Canadian Molly Lamb Bobak: Life & Work traces the career of this pioneering Canadian painter and the diverse range of her artistic output, from her still lifes and interiors to her crowd scenes and self-portraits. It explores Bobak’s legacy as a painter and educator and what it meant to be a female artist in mid-twentieth-century Canada.
Contributor Bio Michelle Gewurtz is the curator at the Ottawa Art Gallery (OAG). She holds a PhD in the history of art from the University of Leeds with a specialization in feminism and the visual arts. Her curatorial work explores gender politics and creative identity, and her research covers both historical and contemporary art.
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Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald Life & Work By (author) Michael Parke-Taylor , Introduction by Sara Angel Sep 25, 2019 | Hardcover , Dust jacket | $40.00 Western Canada’s only member of the Group of Seven, Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald captured the quintessential beauty of the Canadian prairies in his iconic and ethereal paintings and drawings.
Born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald (1890–1956) imbued his art with the beauty and essence of his surroundings. Although he became the Group of Seven’s tenth member in 1932, his style was vastly different from his counterparts in Ontario. His realist images of domesticity revealed his focus on the extraordinary aspects of everyday life rather than the Canadian wilderness.
9781487102067 Quiet in personality and passionate about art, as both principal and teacher at the The Canadian Art Library Winnipeg School of Art from the 1920s to the 1940s FitzGerald inspired a generation of students. During the last years of his life, his West Coast sojourns in Art Canada Institute British Columbia saw his painting style move toward abstraction.
Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald: Life & Work considers how FitzGerald’s art transcends Subject subject matter and empirical observation, addressing universal issues that still resonate beyond the borders of his native home. It offers an account of Canada’s ART / Canadian most important early twentieth-century painter, and how his art came to epitomize the prairie landscape experience by perfecting the quintessential Western Canadian look of land, sky, trees, and, most importantly, the penetrating, intense light.
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Michael Parke-Taylor is an independent researcher and art historian based in Toronto, Ontario. Previously he was curator of modern art at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto and curator of exhibitions at the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina. He has created numerous exhibitions on Canadian artists, including In Seclusion with Nature: The Later Work of L. LeMoine FitzGerald, 1942–1956 for the Winnipeg Art Gallery in Manitoba.
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The Canadian Art Library Series Greg Curnoe Life & Work By (author) Judith Rodger , Introduction by Sara Angel Mar 25, 2019 | Hardcover $40.00 | Greg Curnoe: Life & Work reveals how Greg Curnoe, the 1960s London, Ontario, artist and activist, galvanized nationalism by boldly creating iconic art about Canada when the prevailing trend was to draw inspiration from other places.
Passionately and unapologetically Canadian, artist and activist Greg Curnoe (1936–1992) transformed his hometown of London, Ontario, into an important city for artistic production. Born in 1936, he strongly rejected the idea of moving to “the centre”—Toronto or New York—and spearheaded London Regionalism, a movement that focused on everyday life and turned away from the metropolitan 9781487101794 mores of the 1960s and 1970s art scene. English Greg Curnoe: Life & Work chronicles the artist’s significant and provocative career 8.5 x 11 in and documents how his striking and brightly coloured painting, sculpture, video, 144 pages and photography made a powerful imprint on this country’s cultural landscape. It The Canadian Art Library explores such milestones as Curnoe’s founding of Region magazine and the Region Art Gallery in the early 1960s; the channelling of his political philosophy into the Art Canada Institute cacophony of the experimental musical ensemble the Nihilist Spasm Band; and his cultivating a passion for cycling, which became a central theme in his work from the Subject 1970s onward. This book also considers Curnoe’s formidable output and his documentation of daily experiences in a variety of media, influenced by Dada (with ART / Canadian its emphasis on nihilism and anarchism), Canadian politics, and popular culture. Despite Curnoe’s untimely demise—in 1992 when he was fatally hit by a truck Distributor while riding his bike—he changed artmaking in Canada with his anti-establishment and nationalist politics and by bringing regional artists into political discourse. He UTP Distribution is remembered for his luminous depictions that often incorporate text to support his strong patriotism (sometimes expressed as anti-Americanism) as well as his activism in support of Canadian artists. Contributor Bio Judith Rodger is an art historian, an adjunct professor at Western University and a cultural leader in London, Ontario. She has served as acting director at the McIntosh Gallery and worked at Museum London for thirteen years. Rodger, who knew Greg Curnoe personally and professionally, developed a sustained interest in the artist’s life, beginning in 1995 when she catalogued his works and archival papers.
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The Canadian Art Library Series Shuvinai Ashoona Life & Work By (author) Nancy G. Campbell , Introduction by Sara Angel Mar 25, 2019 | Hardcover $40.00 | Shuvinai Ashoona: Life & Work explores the meteoric rise of Canada’s most renowned Cape Dorset-based artist whose personal drawings of fantastical beasts and imagined worlds have challenged stereotypes of Inuit art and earned her international fame.
Shuvinai Ashoona is one of Canada’s most renowned artists, whose work has been celebrated domestically as well as in Australia, Europe, and the United States. In the publication Vitamin D2: New Perspectives in Drawing (Phaidon, 2013), Shuvinai is recognized as a member of a new generation of artists that engage with drawing in innovative ways. Her highly imaginative work combines aspects of 9781487101800 traditional Inuit culture and mythology with influences derived from the non-Arctic English world. 8.5 x 11 in Born in Kinngait (Cape Dorset) in 1961, Shuvinai is part of a famed dynasty of 128 pages artists that includes her grandmother Pitseolak Ashoona and her Sobey Art The Canadian Art Library Award–winning cousin, the late Annie Pootoogook. In the mid-1990s Shuvinai began producing detailed, primarily monochromatic drawings depicting the natural Art Canada Institute landscapes and traditions of the North. By the late 1990s, however, her attentions shifted to fantastical creatures, dream-like landscapes, and aerial-perspective Subject representations of a global community, expressed in vivid colour. Shuvinai Ashoona: Life & Work explores the world of an artist whose rich graphic imagery ART / Canadian conveys an intricate and textured personal vision. Using pencil, pen and ink, and markers to render dense, highly imaginative drawings, Shuvinai creates art that reflects the intersection of values between the traditional and the contemporary in Distributor the North. UTP Distribution Contributor Bio
Nancy G. Campbell is a recognized authority on Inuit art. A past editor of the Inuit Art Quarterly, she has been an independent curator of Inuit and contemporary art since 1993 and is currently a guest curator at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. Campbell has worked for other institutions, including The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto and the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre at the University of Guelph. She holds a master of arts from the University of British Columbia in arts education and a doctorate from York University in art history.
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