Odjig: The Art of Daphne Odjig 1966-2000

By Bob Boyer & Carol Podedworny, Daphne Odjig, illus.

Until fairly recently, aboriginal art was considered quaint craftwork, suitable for discussion by ethnologists strictly in terms of its function within aboriginal societies. But over the last few decades, aboriginal art has slowly come to ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Weird Sex & Snowshoes: And Other Canadian Film Phenomena

By Katherine Monk

Any attempt at defining Canada’s cultural landscape must acknowledge such pioneering works as Northrop Frye’s The Bush Garden and Margaret Atwood’s Survival. Vancouver film critic Katherine Monk recognizes the critical foundations laid down in these ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Emily Carr Country

By Courtney Milne

Celebrated West Coast painter Emily Carr was also an accomplished writer, winning a Governor General’s Award in 1941 for her first book, Klee Wyck. In Emily Carr Country ($60 cloth 0-7710-5889-6, 208 pp., McClelland & ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Long Time Relationship

By Julie Doucet

Montreal-born Julie Doucet is an internationally renowned comics artist, part of a renaissance that emerged in North America in the 1980s and ’90s that recognized comics as a subtle and effective storytelling medium. Although she’s ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Guilty of Everything

By John Armstrong

Art Bergmann and the band DOA are more familiar to Canadian rock fans now, but 20 years ago their contemporary John Armstrong was just as central to Vancouver’s punk scene. Under the alias Buck Cherry ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Cheez 100

By Fiona Smyth

Anyone who has lived in downtown Toronto in the past 10 years has probably been exposed to the art of Fiona Smyth. A respected and sometimes controversial Toronto artist, Smyth has been referred to as ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Vernacular Drawings

By Seth

Cartoonist and illustrator Seth has played a definitive role in the modern underground comics movement. His illustration work has been seen in such publications as New York, The Globe and Mail, and The Washington Post, ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Chewing on Tinfoil

By Joe Ollmann

Hamilton, Ontario’s Joe Ollmann has been self-publishing his comic WAG for 11 years now, and his editorial strip “Job’s Palace” had an impressive run in The Hamilton Spectator, crossing boundaries between the conventional gag comic ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Doors Open Toronto: Illuminating the City’s Great Spaces

By John Sewell

In the mid-1990s, former Toronto mayor and left-wing political columnist John Sewell conducted an indefatigable (but ultimately unsuccessful) campaign against the amalgamation of the city’s municipal governments. He peppered his criticism of the province’s proposal ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Natural Light: Visions of British Columbia

By David Nunuk

In his foreword to David Nunuk’s Natural Light: Visions of British Columbia ($49.95 cloth 1-55017-273-5, 122 pp., Harbour Publishing), editor Dave Jones describes the two traditional methods of photographing the province’s bountiful scenery. The first ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

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