Art, Music & Pop Culture

Whispering Pines: The Northern Roots of American Music … From Hank Snow to The Band

In Whispering Pines, Jason Schneider, one of Canada’s authorities on the subject of roots music, turns his expertise to the little-known Canadian origin of some of the 20th century’s most famous American popular music. Using ... Read More »

June 29, 2009 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Collected Doug Wright: Canada’s Master Cartoonist

By Doug Wright; Seth, ed.

This shiny, retro-modern-style coffee table book on the work of the once-celebrated cartoonist Doug Wright, edited by well-known comic book artist Seth, is a beautiful object. Filled with full-page strips and blown-up illustrations, the book ... Read More »

May 19, 2009 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Seeing Ghosts: 9/11 and the Visual Imagination

By Karen Engle

Eight years on, with a new American administration in place, we can – and should – reconsider the events surrounding Sept. 11, 2001, argues Karen Engle in this timely analysis of 9/11’s commemorative artworks and ... Read More »

April 20, 2009 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece

By Eric Siblin

The remarkable story of six suites composed for cello by J.S. Bach in the early 1700s, Eric Siblin’s new book is at once a study of music, a work of history, and a passionate tribute. ... Read More »

February 9, 2009 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Arctic Visions: Pictures from a Vanished World

By Fred Bruemmer

Between 1964 and 1995, Montreal-based photographer Fred Bruemmer spent part of each year living among the Inuit in the Arctic. Bruemmer was enthralled by the “magic and majesty” of the land itself – “its rugged ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Ambrosia: About a Culture

By James Cummins

In Ambrosia, Montreal author James Cummins attempts to give readers a snapshot of the history, music, and culture of electronic dance music while also contextualizing it with other music and art movements throughout history. Using ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women Artists

By A.K. Prakash

It’s tempting to assume that Canadian women artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries were second-rate, given that the male-dominated canon of art history has portrayed them as such, simply by exclusion. Independent Spirit ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Unbuilt Toronto: A History of the City That Might Have Been

By Mark Osbaldeston

Toronto, like most cities, is built on plans and ideas: a tower by the lake, a dome with a retractable roof, a parliament building for Ontario, a bridge to join west to east. But what ... Read More »

October 14, 2008 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art

By Don Thompson

Why would someone spend $12-million on an enormous stuffed shark suspended in a tank of formaldehyde? When American billionaire collector Steve Cohen purchased that piece by British artist Damien Hirst in 2004, economics professor and ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

KRAZY! The Delirious World of Anime + Comics + Video Games + Art

By Bruce Grenville, ed.

Launched in tandem with an ambitious exhibit of the same name at the Vancouver Art Gallery, KRAZY! aims to break down contemporary visual culture into seven distinct areas, including those noted in the book’s subtitle. ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

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