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18 décembre 2024
As legendary Saskatchewan artist Eli Bornstein celebrates his 102nd birthday this month, a new book commemorates his career and contribution to Canadian art [English Press Release]
Eli Bornstein: Life & Work, the new open-access online art book by Roald Nasgaard, publishing on December 18, 2024, tells the story of the Saskatoon-based artist’s unique contributions to modern art in Canada. With a particular focus on his turn to nature to produce magisterial works in three dimensions, the book celebrates Bornstein’s influential sixty-five-year career.
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22 octobre 2024
New book on Betty Goodwin spotlights a giant of contemporary Canadian art in honour of Women’s History Month [English Press Release]
Betty Goodwin: Life & Work, the new open-access online art book by Jessica Bradley, details the indelible impact of an artist who established a critically acclaimed career in the early 1970s after a major breakthrough in printmaking. Celebrated for her haunting prints and drawings, Goodwin emerged in mid-life as an artist of consequence, becoming one of Canada’s greatest contemporary creators.
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18 septembre 2024
Overcoming the horrors of Canada’s residential school system, Carl Beam became one of the world’s most revered artists and forged an activist art career [English Press Release]
Carl Beam: Life & Work, the new open-access online art book by his daughter, Anong Migwans Beam, is publishing on September 18, 2024, in the lead-up to the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. It tells the story of this trailblazing artist who helped bring national attention to the experiences of residential school survivors.
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18 juin 2024
Halifax: City of Firsts in Canadian Art [English Press Release]
New book by Ray Cronin offers an authoritative account of how the city’s fearless artistic innovations shaped the country’s visual arts landscape.
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8 mai 2024
Seeing Photography in Canada Through a New Lens: Groundbreaking New Book Explores 150 Years of Camera-Based Creativity [English Press Release]
Photography in Canada, 1839–1989: An Illustrated History is the first-ever comprehensive work to consider how photography has revolutionized the way that we understand ourselves and our country.
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24 avril 2024
The Iconic and Epic Vision of Takao Tanabe [English Press Release]
A new book on the 97-year-old groundbreaking Canadian artist explores his singular career and enduring legacy.
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7 mars 2024
Margaret Watkins: Life & Work [English Press Release]
Written by Mary O’Connor, the new open-access online art book celebrates one of the most influential Canadian photographers of her generation and is available from the Art Canada Institute.
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27 mai 2022
Gathie Falk: Boundless Beauties of the Everyday from a West Coast Icon [English Press Release]
An artist of unprecedented reinvention, Gathie Falk has mesmerized the Canadian art world for more than six decades with works in painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramic, installation, and performance. With diverse materials but a distinctly personal vision, she transforms everyday items like fruit, shoes, and furniture into objects of wonder. From modest Mennonite beginnings, Falk rose to fame in Vancouver in the mid-1960s and has continued to garner international acclaim. A new book explores her fascinating life and groundbreaking contributions to contemporary art.
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8 octobre 2021
Maud Lewis: Redefining Canadian Folk Art [English Press Release]
The first and only online art book on the extraordinary life and career of one of Canada’s most beloved painters explores how she transformed Canadian folk art. It also reveals how, despite serious poverty and physical challenges, Maud Lewis rose to national fame in the mid-1960s through her ability to convey brightly coloured scenes of joy and optimism.
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28 mai 2021
The Japanese Canadian Maverick of Modern Abstraction [English Press Release]
Kazuo Nakamura grew up during a period of intense anti-Asian discrimination in Canada and was interned as an “enemy alien” during the Second World War, but by the late 1950s, the Painters Eleven member had earned international acclaim. Though he reached a level of success that was virtually unprecedented for any Japanese Canadian artist, his name and work have not achieved the recognition they deserve. A new book shines valuable light on the life and career of this groundbreaking figure in modern art.
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21 mai 2021
Walter S. Allward: Life & Work, the new ACI book by Philip Dombowsky [English Press Release]
Although Walter S. Allward shared the same virtuoso talent as Michelangelo, the visionary artist behind Canada’s iconic Vimy Memorial was nearly forgotten for many years. Now, on the anniversary of the battle that he famously commemorated, a new book documents the revered sculptor’s life and career.
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21 mai 2021
A Pandemic Life-line: Canada’s Only Kindergarten to Grade 12 Open-Access Art Education Program
The Art Canada Institute’s ready-to-use, online educational program—available free of charge and in English and French—provides an invaluable resource for teachers
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25 février 2021
Suzy Lake: Life & Work, the new ACI book by Erin Silver [English press release]
The mother of Canadian art activism, Suzy Lake (b.1947) was decades ahead of her time. Using her camera as a tool and herself as a model she has investigated issues of identity, gender, beauty, and aging—changing the course of art history in the process. Suzy Lake: Life & Work is part of the Art Canada Institute’s mission to provide free online educational resources honouring and exploring the work and creativity of those who have shaped and defined this country’s cultural landscape.
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14 décembre 2020
Iljuwas Bill Reid: Life & Work, the new ACI book by Gerald McMaster (English press release)
A vital contemporary perspective on the iconic Haida artist and activist, marking the first time a major book has been written on Reid by an Indigenous scholar and the centenary of his birth. The free online publication is part of the ACI’s mission to make Canadian art a contemporary conversation and to explore the legacy of those who have shaped this country’s cultural landscape.
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9 mars 2020
ACI announces the publication of Revision and Resistance
This new art book chronicles internationally acclaimed cree artist Kent Monkman's groundbreaking commission mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York [en anglais seulement].
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9 mars 2020
ACI announces the publication of Revision and Resistance (English press release)
This new art book chronicles internationally acclaimed cree artist Kent Monkman's groundbreaking commission mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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16 avril 2019
ACI announces the publication of Oviloo Tunnillie: Life & Work (English press release)
Online art book spotlights celebrated Cape Dorset sculptor Oviloo Tunnillie, who defied Inuit social norms and carved her personal experiences into stone.
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19 mars 2019
ACI invites you to the lecture Gershon Iskowitz: Life & Legacy (English press release)
On April 1, 2019, four leading art historians discuss the life and legacy of Gershon Iskowitz. This extraordinary artist survived Auschwitz and became one of Canada’s most acclaimed painters and cultural philanthropists.
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28 février 2019
ACI announces the publication of Gershon Iskowitz: Life & Work (English press release)
From Holocaust survivor to one of Canada’s most acclaimed painters and cultural philanthropists: Gershon Iskowitz: Life & Work chronicles one man’s remarkable trajectory from Auschwitz to famed Canadian artist.
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25 octobre 2018
ACI announces the publication of Molly Lamb Bobak: Life & Work (English press release)
New art book profiles the first woman to be appointed an official Canadian war artist.
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10 octobre 2018
ACI announces the publication of Homer Watson: Life & Work (English press release)
Homer Watson went from obscurity to international renown in 1880 when his painting, The Pioneer Mill, was purchased by Canada’s then-governor general as a gift for Queen Victoria.
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27 août 2018
ACI announces the publication of Bertram Brooker: Life & Work (English press release)
Bertram Brooker was a self-taught polymath who defied the conventions of his time by taking a multi-pronged approach to artmaking and life.
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25 mars 2017
ACI announces the publication of William Kurelek: Life & Work
Meticulously crafted, Kurelek’s paintings range from whimsical, charming scenes inspired by his life in the Prairies to turbulent expressions of his inner mind and his personal, religious, and cultural concerns.
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4 janvier 2017
ACI announces the publication of Shuvinai Ashoona: Life & Work (English press release)
Shuvinai Ashoona’s singular style and bold artistic experimentation, including collaborations with Shary Boyle, has overturned stereotypical notions of Inuit art. Today she is an internationally renowned artist.
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10 septembre 2016
ACI announces the publication of Greg Curnoe: Life & Work (English press release)
Passionately and unapologetically Canadian, artist and activist Greg Curnoe (1936–1992) transformed his hometown of London, Ontario, into an important city for artistic production.
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30 août 2015
ACI announces the publication of Oscar Cahén: Life & Work (English press release)
Before his tragic death at age 40, Oscar Cahén fled Nazi Germany, made his name as a celebrated North American magazine illustrator, and co-founded the Canadian abstract art collective Painters Eleven.
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