Author: John A. Fleming
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
ISBN: 9780888646309
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Immerse yourself in more than 425 previously unpublished colour photographs of Canada's disappearing traditional folk art. The authors' discovery of distinctive objects from across Canada inspired them to re-classify folk art, and to analyze and interpret their examples in 17 thematic chapters. The "aesthetic of the everyday" of Canada's material heritage is presented through paintings and carvings, quilts and rugs, tables and trade signs-just to mention a few. These traditional art forms of diverse community groups express a decorative cultural identity, documented through the unique lens of photographer James A. Chambers. Historians, curators, collectors, designers, and dealers, as well as anyone who appreciates material culture, will want to have this collection in their libraries.
Canadian Folk Art to 1950
Author: John A. Fleming
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
ISBN: 9780888646309
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Immerse yourself in more than 425 previously unpublished colour photographs of Canada's disappearing traditional folk art. The authors' discovery of distinctive objects from across Canada inspired them to re-classify folk art, and to analyze and interpret their examples in 17 thematic chapters. The "aesthetic of the everyday" of Canada's material heritage is presented through paintings and carvings, quilts and rugs, tables and trade signs-just to mention a few. These traditional art forms of diverse community groups express a decorative cultural identity, documented through the unique lens of photographer James A. Chambers. Historians, curators, collectors, designers, and dealers, as well as anyone who appreciates material culture, will want to have this collection in their libraries.
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
ISBN: 9780888646309
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Immerse yourself in more than 425 previously unpublished colour photographs of Canada's disappearing traditional folk art. The authors' discovery of distinctive objects from across Canada inspired them to re-classify folk art, and to analyze and interpret their examples in 17 thematic chapters. The "aesthetic of the everyday" of Canada's material heritage is presented through paintings and carvings, quilts and rugs, tables and trade signs-just to mention a few. These traditional art forms of diverse community groups express a decorative cultural identity, documented through the unique lens of photographer James A. Chambers. Historians, curators, collectors, designers, and dealers, as well as anyone who appreciates material culture, will want to have this collection in their libraries.
Canadian Folk Art
Author: Michael S. Bird
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art
Author: Blake McKendry
Publisher: Kingston, Ont. : B. McKendry
ISBN: 9780969329824
Category : Folk art
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Publisher: Kingston, Ont. : B. McKendry
ISBN: 9780969329824
Category : Folk art
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Welcome to Our World, Contemporary Canadian Folk Art
Author: Susan M. Foshay
Publisher: Kleinburg, Ont. : McMichael Canadian Art Collection
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher: Kleinburg, Ont. : McMichael Canadian Art Collection
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Canadian craft and museum practice, 1900-1950
Author: Sandra Flood
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 1772823686
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
This book presents the first overview of craft activity, as an integral part of Canadian culture between 1900 and 1950, and reviews the tone and focus of contemporaneous writing about craft. It explores the diversity of all aspects of craft, including makers, production, organization, education, and government involvement.
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 1772823686
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
This book presents the first overview of craft activity, as an integral part of Canadian culture between 1900 and 1950, and reviews the tone and focus of contemporaneous writing about craft. It explores the diversity of all aspects of craft, including makers, production, organization, education, and government involvement.
Once They Were Hats
Author: Frances Backhouse
Publisher: ECW/ORIM
ISBN: 1770907556
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
“Unexpectedly delightful reading—there is much to learn from the buck-toothed rodents of yore” (National Post). Beavers, those icons of industriousness, have been gnawing down trees, building dams, shaping the land, and creating critical habitat in North America for at least a million years. Once one of the continent’s most ubiquitous mammals, they ranged from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Rio Grande to the edge of the northern tundra. Wherever there was wood and water, there were beavers—sixty million, or more—and wherever there were beavers, there were intricate natural communities that depended on their activities. Then the European fur traders arrived. Once They Were Hats examines humanity’s fifteen-thousand–year relationship with Castor canadensis, and the beaver’s even older relationship with North American landscapes and ecosystems. From the waterlogged environs of the Beaver Capital of Canada to the wilderness cabin that controversial conservationist Grey Owl shared with pet beavers; from a bustling workshop where craftsmen make beaver-felt cowboy hats using century-old tools to a tidal marsh where an almost-lost link between beavers and salmon was recently found, it’s a journey of discovery to find out what happened after we nearly wiped this essential animal off the map, and how we can learn to live with beavers now that they’re returning. “Fascinating and smartly written.” —The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Publisher: ECW/ORIM
ISBN: 1770907556
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
“Unexpectedly delightful reading—there is much to learn from the buck-toothed rodents of yore” (National Post). Beavers, those icons of industriousness, have been gnawing down trees, building dams, shaping the land, and creating critical habitat in North America for at least a million years. Once one of the continent’s most ubiquitous mammals, they ranged from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Rio Grande to the edge of the northern tundra. Wherever there was wood and water, there were beavers—sixty million, or more—and wherever there were beavers, there were intricate natural communities that depended on their activities. Then the European fur traders arrived. Once They Were Hats examines humanity’s fifteen-thousand–year relationship with Castor canadensis, and the beaver’s even older relationship with North American landscapes and ecosystems. From the waterlogged environs of the Beaver Capital of Canada to the wilderness cabin that controversial conservationist Grey Owl shared with pet beavers; from a bustling workshop where craftsmen make beaver-felt cowboy hats using century-old tools to a tidal marsh where an almost-lost link between beavers and salmon was recently found, it’s a journey of discovery to find out what happened after we nearly wiped this essential animal off the map, and how we can learn to live with beavers now that they’re returning. “Fascinating and smartly written.” —The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
'Twas Ever Thus
Author: Robert McLaughlin Gallery
Publisher: M.F. Feheley Publishers
ISBN: 9780919880153
Category : Folk art
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Publisher: M.F. Feheley Publishers
ISBN: 9780919880153
Category : Folk art
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
From the Heart
Author: Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN:
Category : Decorative arts
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN:
Category : Decorative arts
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Canadian Folk Art
Author: Susan A. Murray
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780920674642
Category : Folk art
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780920674642
Category : Folk art
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description