Index

Review

A Sense of Place: Art at Vancouver International Airport

In 1958, during the post-war building boom, the federal government decided to devote one per cent of airport construction costs to artwork. Within a few years the facades and foyers of airports from Gander, Newfoundland,...

Review by Maria Tippett

BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 156-157

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The Land We Are: Artists and Writers Unsettle the Politics of Reconciliation

The Poetics of Land and Identity Among British Columbia Indigenous Peoples

Review by Chris Arnett

BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Pages 142-144

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The Art of Jeffrey Rubinoff

Jeffrey Rubinoff (1945-2017) is one of the great sculptors in steel of the second half of the twentieth century. In the 1970s and 1980s he exhibited widely in the United States and Canada. Though poised...

Review by Susan Lewis

BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 181-182

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Train Master: The Railway Art of Max Jacquiard

Train Master: The Railway Art of Max Jacquiard, the new book by the noted transportation historian Barry Sanford, looks at British Columbian railways from 1925 to 1955, as depicted in ninety-nine paintings by Jacquiard. The...

Review by Ian Pooley

BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 147-148

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The Artist in the Cloister: The Life and Works of Father Dunstan Massey

Art and Roman Catholicism have, for most of the church’s long history, gone hand in hand. And Roman Catholic churches, schools, and abbeys in British Columbia are no exception. During the first decades of the...

Review by Maria Tippett

BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 242-44

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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...

Review by Alan Hoover

BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 216-217

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The Life and Art of Mildred Valley Thorton

Sheryl Salloum’s new book The Life and Art of Mildred Valley Thornton explores why this important BC artist has generally been ignored in the historical record and cultural landscape of this province. Given that she...

Review by Erin Ramlo

BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 181-2

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Art Inspired by the Canadian Rockies, Purcell Mountains and Selkirk Mountains, 1809-2012

As Nancy Townshend writes in the preface of Art Inspired by the Canadian Rockies, Purcell Mountains and Selkirk Mountains, 1809-2012: “At one time, the Canadian Rockies, Purcell Mountains, and Selkirk Mountains existed as a...

Review by Maria Tippett

BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 216-217

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Interventions: Native American Art for Far-flung Territories

Judith Ostrowitz skilfully investigates the complex and innovative strategies used by First Nations artists since the 1950s to engage with museum, art gallery, restoration, and tourist initiatives. She shows how various individuals and groups...

Review by Leslie Dawn

BC Studies no. 168 Winter 2010-2011 | Page(s) 106-107

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Alpine Anatomy: The Mountain Art of Arnold Shives

Alpine Anatomy: The Mountain Art of Arnold Shives celebrates the North Vancouver printmaker and painter’s representations of British Columbia’s sublime mountainous landscape. The book offers an overview of Shives’ career and includes five essays by...

Review by Devon Smither

BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 158-59

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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...

Review by Geoffrey Carr

BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 180-181

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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...

Review by Maria Tippett

BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 174-5

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Mount Robson: Spiral Road of Art

Over the past several years Jane Lytton Gooch has published books devoted to the sketches, paintings, and photographs inspired by the landscape of British Columbia and Alberta. Celebrating the centennial of the founding of British...

Review by Maria Tippett

BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 170-71

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Coded Territories: Tracing Indigenous Pathways in New Media Art

In this fascinating collection, seven Indigenous artists from across Canada illustrate how digital technologies and Indigenous ontologies combine to inform new media theory and practice. In different ways, the contributors demonstrate how digital technologies are...

Review by Rob McMahon

BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 217-218

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New Ground: A Memoir of Art and Activism in BC’s Interior

New Ground: A Memoir of Art and Activism in BC’s Interior is more than just a memoir about Ann Kujundzic’s life — it is a beautifully crafted encounter with Kujundzic and all of the histories that...

Review by Alifa Zafirah Bandali

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The Art of the Impossible: Dave Barrett and the NDP in Power, 1972-1975

This book is splendid work of popular political history, biography, and related media study that co-authors Geoff Meggs (a former communications director to Premier Glen Clark) and Rod Mickleburgh (a veteran of the west coast...

Review by Allen Seager