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Drawing on his present and past experiences, his travels and exploits, and his Exhibition tie-in National advertising anxieties and fears, his work offers poignant meditations on the human environment, all the while challenging National media relations the viewer’s perspective with humour, intelligence, and a trail of narrative. Social media campaign RetroActive offers a comprehensive view of Greer’s work and his commitment to the discourse of sculpture. Exterior advertising (Halifax) Stunningly designed by Susanne Schaal and featuring the photographs of Raoul Manuel Schnell, the book contains more than three hundred representations of Greer and his work — in situ, in galleries, in process — bringing into focus Greer’s significant contributions to the world of art and ideas. Also included in the book are essays by Ray Cronin, Andria Minicucci, Dennis Reid, Ron Shuebrook, David Diviney, Sarah Fillmore, and Vanessa Paschakarnis. John Greer taught at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design for almost three decades, where his thinking and teaching helped shape contemporary sculpture in Canada. His work has been included in more than fifty solo and sixty group exhibitions and is held in public and private collections around the globe. In 2009 Greer was the recipient of the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, Canada’s highest distinction in the field of art and culture. 2 GOOSE LANE EDITIONS Spring 2016 3 Essential Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Jacques Hurtubise edited by SARAH FILLMORE Bilingual edition | édition bilingue 9780864926623 hc | $60 Rights: World David Askevold: Once Upon a Time in the East edited by DAVID DIVINEY 9780864926593 hc | $50 Rights: World En français : David Askevold : Il était une fois dans l’est sous la direction de DAVID DIVINEY 9780864926661 rigide | 50 $ Droits : mondiale The Painted House of Maud Lewis: Conserving a Folk Art Treasure LAURIE HAMILTON 9780864923349 pb | $19.95 Rights: World Co-published with Art Gallery of Nova Scotia 4 GOOSE LANE EDITIONS Architecture February 2016 Peter MacCallum: Documentary Projects 2005-2015 9780864928948 hc | $45 216 pages, 8 x 9 PETER MacCALLUM Art | Architecture Rights held: World In this his newest book, Peter MacCallum has assembled collections of his documentary photographs of the last decade that examine the particularities of the vernacular spaces of human labour, commerce, and habitation. Conceived as series, these documentary photographs juxtapose the miscellany of the commercial Special events architecture of Toronto’s Yonge Street with the uniform elegance of rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis in Paris; Exhibition tie-in an aging zinc foundry in Montreal with a venerable independent garage in Toronto; the functional Theatre National advertising Passe Muraille in Toronto with the tiny, lushly decorated Théâtre du Tambour Royal in Paris. National media relations Social media campaign Shifting from the industrial to the monumental to the domestic, MacCallum’s roving eye lands upon the gritty morphology of the coal-fired Lakeview Generating Station, the restoration of Walter Allward’s great limestone monument at Vimy Ridge, and the classical Greek spirit expressed in the front porches of ordinary Toronto houses dating from the early decades of the 20th century. The result is an engrossing collection of photographs that reveal a disarming beauty in sites that both embody and encompass a rich history of industry, commerce, and human habitation. Peter MacCallum is known for his mastery of the photographic medium, producing works that have been called “lessons in observation.” He is especially interested in architecture, industry, and urban spaces. MacCallum’s photographs have been published in his 2006 book, Material World, and in magazines such as Spacing, Toronto Life, Canadian Architect, Prefix Photo, and Azure. His work has also appeared in numerous group and solo exhibitions and is included in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada, the Toronto Dominion Bank, the Henry Morgentaler Toronto Clinic, and other corporate and private collections. He lives and works in Toronto. Spring 2016 5 Art March 2016 Lucy Jarvis: Even Stones Have Life 9780864928924 hc | $45 228 pages, 9 x 9 ROSLYN ROSENFELD Art Rights held: World Co-published with Writing early in 1962, Lucy Jarvis said she felt “just at the threshold of beginning.” Jarvis had studied at Beaverbrook Art Gallery the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in the 1920s, later becoming part of the social realist movement, committed to an art “of the people.” In 1941 Jarvis co-founded the UNB Art Centre with Pegi Nicol MacLeod, and together they turned it into a place of creative effervescence. Passionate and single-minded, Jarvis threw herself into everything that she did and the results were nothing short of astounding. In a few short years, she and MacLeod had Exhibition tie-in transformed their environment. National advertising National media relations Yet it wasn’t until the early 1960s that the unstoppable Jarvis set out on her own. She left the art centre Regional speaking tour and headed for Paris. In four extended stays during the 1960s, she immersed herself completely, living Social media campaign in French, attending the open studios, and connecting with other artists. Co-op available Her retreats to Pembroke Dyke near Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, during the summer months allowed her to digest her experiences, and her art took on new life. The influences of both impressionism and post-impressionism emerged in her work, and her paintings became more boldly colourful, freer — more completely her own. facing page: Lucy Jarvis: Even Stones Have Life is the first examination of Jarvis’s considerable body of work — what Lucy Jarvis she painted, how she rendered it, and how her art permeated her life and her life permeated her art. Studio with Mary Thompson, Roslyn Rosenfeld is an independent curator, whose exhibition on the life and work of Lucy Jarvis was c. 1975 oil on masonite, 70.5 x 72.0 cm organized and exhibited at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in 2014 and toured to the Art Gallery of Collection