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Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980
Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980 is the catalogue of arguably one of the most important exhibitions of Canadian art in recent history, which in turn dealt with one of the most transformative art movements...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 176-77
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Negotiations in a Vacant Lot: Studying the Visual in Canada
This book changes how we should think about visual culture and art history in Canada. By focusing on how the visual has been shaped by liberal and neo-liberal ideologies of individualism, property rights, and progress...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 174-76
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Whose Culture Is It, Anyway? Community Engagement in Small Cities
Whose Culture Is It, Anyway? addresses important questions about the contribution of arts and culture in small and medium sized cities and the ethos and ethics of supporting cultural development in these environments. Small and...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 177-78
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The Gold Will Speak For Itself: Peter Leech and Leechtown
Vancouver Island has a distinctive personality among the regions of British Columbia, one that has been shaped in complex ways by geography and history. The books reviewed here vary in their candlepower, but all of...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 160-164
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The First Nations of British Columbia: An Anthropological Overview. Third Edition
Despite its slim size (the main body of text is only 117 pages), The First Nations of British Columbia: An Anthropological Overview is a useful primer for those hoping to learn the basic issues relevant...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 107-08
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Landscape Architecture in Canada
Landscape Architecture in Canada is Ron Williams’ magnum opus, the likely capstone of a distinguished career as researcher, teacher, and practitioner. It is a fine scholarly effort, more than fifteen years in the making. Until...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 136-38
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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...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 140-41
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Wood Storms/Wild Canvas: The Art of Godfrey Stephens
In the introduction that the art critic Robert Amos has contributed to this pictorial biography, he tells us that Duncan-born Godfrey Stephens is “too busy and too self-centred, to study the influences of art history...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 152-53
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The Afterthought: West Coast Rock Posters and Recollections
Jerry Kruz’s beautifully illustrated autobiographical work provides an intriguing first hand glimpse of Vancouver psychedelic music scene. The book revolves around Kruz’s years as a concert promoter from 1966 to 1969. Although it briefly describes...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 141-43
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From the Hands of a Weaver: Olympic Peninsula Basketry through Time
This book tells the story of the many roles of basketry in the lives of the First Peoples of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula and of the diverse styles and materials used by the weavers, mainly women....
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 157-58
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Rural Women’s Health
This volume is a rare and important collection of groundbreaking work on a topic too often ignored in Canadian academia. I was delighted when I was asked to review this collection, simply to ensure that...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 229-231
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Native Art of the Northwest Coast: A History of Changing Ideas
The essays and the many previously published texts gathered together in this weighty tome demonstrate the extent to which, over the course of the past 250 years, “the idea of Northwest Coast Native art has...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 193-95
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The Grande Dames of the Cariboo
Far too little is known about artistic activity in the interior of British Columbia — past and present alike. Julie Fowler seeks to fill this lacuna by examining the lives of two mother-and-daughter artists: Vivien...