Art, Music & Pop Culture

Canadian Art: From Its Beginnings to 2000

There’s more to Canadian art than just the Group of Seven, as art historian Anne Newlands demonstrates in Canadian Art: From Its Beginnings to 2000. The book profiles 300 artists, presenting them in alphabetized one-page ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

★ Stan Douglas

By Daina Augaitis,George Wagner, William Wood

At age 38, Vancouver artist Stan Douglas is currently the most successful young artist in Canada. His multimedia installations have appeared at major institutions around the world, and he is considered one of the top ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Industrial Cathedrals of the North

By Louie Palu and Charlie Angus

If hockey is Canada’s international sport, mining is Canada’s international industry. But while scores of picture books have honoured our hockey greats, the haunting visual legacy of mining has largely been neglected. That is, until ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself

By Sabrina Ward Harrison

If Nick Bantock and Ralph Steadman were teenaged girls who kept scrapbook diaries, Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself would be the result. California-based photographer Sabrina Ward Harrison pours the world of adolescent angst ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Grain of Truth: The Ancient Lessons of Craft

By Ross Laird

In Grain of Truth, Ross Laird uses his myriad craft projects as a vehicle to explore craft as a metaphor for self-awareness. Dividing his ruminations into eight sections titled after the essential symbols of Taoism, ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

True Crime, True North: The Golden Age of Canadian Pulp Magazines

By Carolyn Strange, Tina Loo

Like their dime-store novel counterparts, the most enduring charms of true crime magazines from the 1940s are their sensationalized covers and hyperbolic titles. A typical cover would depict a sultry woman with waffled tresses smoking ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women’s Cinema

By Kay Armatage, Kass Banning, Brenda Longfellow and Janine Marchessault, eds.

Unlike Canadian literature, which currently enjoys great international popularity, Canadian movies remain, shall we say, an acquired taste, both at home and abroad. While the publication of a book like Gendering the Nation won’t go ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Opium: A Portrait of the Heavenly Demon

By Barbara Hodgson

While opium den is a term used by today’s interior decorators to describe any room with cushions on the floor, it wasn’t so long ago that it referred to a place where high and low ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Shabby Chic: Simple Living, the Comfort of Age, and the Beauty of Imperfection

By Rachel Ashwell with Glynis Costin, Art Streiber, photog.

I can’t find a word for “fear of antiques,” but I know one must be out there. After years of being told not to sit on a chair, step on a rug, or drink from ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Junk Style

By Melanie Molesworth, Tom Leighton, photog.

I can’t find a word for “fear of antiques,” but I know one must be out there. After years of being told not to sit on a chair, step on a rug, or drink from ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

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