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

Houses of China

By Bonnie Shemie

No, this isn’t a book about delicate dwellings shaped in fine porcelain. Bonnie Shemie’s successful and informative “Houses” series has taken a big jump, away from Native American houses, all the way to China. Houses ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Studiolo: The Collaborative Work of Martha Fleming & Lyne Lapointe

By Martha Fleming with Lyne Lapointe and Lesley Johnstone

Studiolo is both the title of an installation recently held at the Art Gallery of Windsor and the book form of site projects by two of Canada’s top artists, Martha Fleming and Lyne Lapointe. The ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Silent Night: The Song from Heaven

By Linda Granfield, Nelly & Ernst Hofer, illus.

With its thick, flecked cream paper and rich gold artwork, Silent Night: The Song From Heaven is a very attractive, appealing book for Christmas giving. Both text and pictures reflect on the carol itself, rather ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Our Hearts Went Boom: The Beatles’ Invasion of Canada

By Brian Kendall

For those Beatlemaniacs like me who actually saw The Beatles in concert in Canada in 1964, ’65, or ’66, this book will bring back delightful memories. For those unfortunate others, Our Hearts Went Boom will ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Brothers Hambourg

By Eric Koch

In 1910, after several years in England, a Russian professor of music named Michael Hambourg brought his family to Toronto. Although they did not exactly change Toronto society forever (their names are all but forgotten), ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Such Melodious Racket: The Lost History of Jazz in Canada 1914-1949

By Mark Miller

Jazz came to Canada in 1914 when the Creole Band from New Orleans played a Monday afternoon gig at the Pantages Theatre inWinnipeg. The local daily paper, the Tribune, noted that the six musicians, who ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Art and Life of Betty Goodwin

By Matthew Teitelbaum, Jessica Bradley, eds.

The catalogue for the Art Gallery of Ontario’s retrospective of Betty Goodwin is a solid document of 50 years of work. There are colour plates galore of the Montreal artist’s striking images, like her Swimmer ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

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Cowboy: The Legend and the Legacy

A Song of Lilith

Greg Curnoe: Life and Stuff

Houses of China

Studiolo: The Collaborative Work of Martha Fleming & Lyne Lapointe

Silent Night: The Song from Heaven

Our Hearts Went Boom: The Beatles’ Invasion of Canada

The Brothers Hambourg

Such Melodious Racket: The Lost History of Jazz in Canada 1914-1949

The Art and Life of Betty Goodwin

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