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Entering Time: The Fungus Man Platters of Charles Edenshaw
In 2013 the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Charles Edenshaw exhibition brought together three argillite platters made in the late 1880s by Da.a. xiigang, Charles Edenshaw – one from the Field Museum in Chicago, one from the...
BC Studies no. 209 Spring 2021 | Page(s) 142-145
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Sonny Assu: A Selective History
This comprehensive survey of Sonny Assu’s work is prefaced by four incisive essays by prominent indigenous scholars and curators. This beautifully designed and thoughtfully organized book covers significant phases in the Kwakwaka’ wakw artist’s career,...
BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | Page(s) 207
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Woo, The Monkey Who Inspired Emily Carr: a Biography
“Monkey Business: Emily Carr’s Woo” In 1923 Emily Carr sent her maid, Pearl, to Lucy Cowie’s pet shop in downtown Victoria. She gave the owner thirty dollars and one of Carr’s Griffon dogs in exchange...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 161-162
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Emily Patterson: The Heroic Life of a Milltown Nurse
In Emily Patterson: The Heroic Life of a Milltown Nurse, Lisa Smith transports the reader to late nineteenth century Pacific Northwest and evocatively offers a history of an extraordinary woman living through extraordinary times. Born in...
BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 186-7
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The Life and Art of Arthur Pitts
Kerry Mason begins The Life and Art of Arthur Pitts with a question: ‘Why haven’t I heard about this artist?’ (x) By the end of the book the reader is persuaded that we should indeed...
BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 174-5
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The Language of Family: Stories of Bonds and Belonging
“What does a book about family look like when everyone’s idea of family is different?” So opens Michelle van der Merwe’s thoughtfully edited volume The Language of Family: Stories of Bond and Belongings. This anthology...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 197-8
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Red: The Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, 2013
The short title of the book – Red – shares its name with the 2013 Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship for Native American Fine Art, which gathered together the work of five notable Indigenous artists: Julie...
BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 180-181
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Sonia: The Life of Bohemian, Rancher and Artist Sonia Cornwall, 1919-2006
Challenged to name women artists of British Columbia of the twentieth century, most people would stop at Emily Carr. While the list of both First Nations and settler women artists of British Columbia is impressively...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 213-214
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In the Spirit of the Ancestors: Contemporary Northwest Coast Art at the Burke Museum
In the Spirit of the Ancestors celebrates the Burke Museum’s contemporary Northwest Coast art collection. The writers, four academics and four artists, all have strong ties to this Seattle museum, and the artists featured here...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 216-217
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Masterworks from the Audain Art Museum
This large format book documents many of the significant works in the collection of the newest public art museum in Canada, the Audain Art Museum in Whistler, which opened in March 2016. In Canada, art...
BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | Page(s) 176-177
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From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia
Over sixty years after her death, Emily Carr has hit the international scene. It began in June 2012 when seven of her paintings were featured in Kassell, Germany’s prestigious Documenta, an art fair that showcases...
BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | Page(s) 178-180
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Unarrested Archives: Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Canadian Women’s Authorship
This precisely researched and engaging study enlarges our understanding of the archive by focusing on the decisions taken by or imposed on five Canadian women writers about the disposition of their papers or literary record....
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 183-84
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Last Dance in Shediac: Memories of Mum, Molly Lamb Bobak
This is a very peculiar book. Although its subject is an artist, the Vancouver-born painter Molly Lamb Bobak, the first female war artist in Canada, there is little about Bobak’s art. Molly Bobak did much more...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 168-169
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Made in British Columbia: Eight Ways of Making Culture
At first glance, I was sceptical of Made in British Columbia. What more could possibly be written about painter Emily Carr or architects Francis Rattenbury and Arthur Erickson? But Maria Tippett’s carefully crafted biographies of...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 164-165
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Sensational Vancouver
Rumrunners, writers, aviators, architects, crooked cops, and killers are just some of the motley cast of characters populating Eve Lazarus’s Sensational Vancouver. This is her third local history book and a welcome addition to the...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 131-32
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The Life and Art of Harry and Jessie Webb
Everyone has met artists who triumphed at art school, who showed some promise following graduation, but who then vanished from the art world. The Life and Art of Harry and Jessie Webb tells such a...