The Art of Earth
Rona Murray and Walter Dexter
This beautifully produced book contains photographs of ceramics from all over the world and from all periods. It ranges from ancient Greece to contemporary Canada, from the work of the Navaho to that of the Etruscans, and includes photographs of many important pieces never before gathered together in one book. The prose and verse extracts are equally wide-ranging in both place and date, and some of them have never previously appeared in English.
Art/Poetry, 116 pp, 8.5 x 11, 50 b/w photos
ISBN 0-919462-86-3, paper, $20.00
The Broad Canvas
Portraits of Women by Women
Linda Rogers
with photos by
Barbara Pedrick
This richly illustrated book follows the stories of women overcoming pain, politics, and prejudice as they sing, dance, act, write, and paint toward the new millennium. Every story of these mothers of artistic freedom is at once intimate and inspirational. Like Renaissance murals full of contemporary faces, this is a broad canvas of familiar heads talking.
Art/Biography/Women's Studies, 176 pp, 9 x 8
ISBN 1-55039-097-X, paper, $24.95
50+ b/w and colour photos and art reproductions
A Passion for Art
The Art and Dynamics of the Limners
Patricia E. Bovey
The artists: Maxwell Bates, Pat Martin Bates, Richard Ciccimarra, Rober deCastro, Walter Dexter, Nita Forrest, Colin Graham, Helga Grove, Jan Grove, Elza Mayhew, Myfanwy Pavelic, Carole Sabiston, Herbert Siebner, Robin Skelton, Sylvia Skelton, Karl Spreitz, Jack Wilkinson. Lifetimes of artistic achievement, regionally, nationally, internationally, in both text and illustration.
Art History, colour & b/w photos, 108pp
ISBN 1-55039-070-8, paper, $21.95
A Portrait By Myfanwy - Un Portrait par Myfanwy
Ted Lindberg
In the fall of 1990, acclaimed artist Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic was chosen by Pierre Elliot Trudeau to paint his official portrait, to be hung in the House of Commons with those of all other former Prime Ministers. A Portrait by Myfanwy was produced to document this remarkable artistic achievement, containing all the exhibition paintings (most in full colour) and an explanatory text in both English and French.
Art, 52 pp, 9 x 8, 45 colour and b/w reproductions
ISBN 1-55039-025-2, paper, $20.00
The sensational story of BC's most important architect, his triumphs, his battles, his scandalous life and grisly murder by his wife's lover and the subsequent trial are all carefully documented in this award-winning biography. Released in time to celebrate the centennial of the British Columbia Parliament Buildings, this revised edition examines previously unknown details about Rattenbury's involvement with the Empress Hotel. Terry Reksten also discloses the aftermath of the infamous Rattenbury murder trial, including what happened to the architect's children and George Stoner, the chauffeur convicted of his murder.
Biography/History, 204 pp, 6 × 9
ISBN 1-55039-090-2, paper, $18.95
40 b/w illustrations
Relationships
Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic is one of Canada's most famous portraitists. This beautiful monograph was inspired by an exhibition of Pavelic's work, "Relationships," held in 1985 at the North Park Gallery in Victoria, B.C. Readers are offered a private glimpse at the relationships between the artist and her medium, and the artist and her subjects.
Art, 34 pp, 9 × 10
no ISBN, paper, $20.00
47 colour and b/w reproductions
Unseen Dimensions
Musings on Art and Life
John Koerner
Artist John Koerner communicates creativity, within and without the confines of canvas. Distilled from notebooks kept throughout his artistic career, these essays are provocative, funny, and challenging forays into what it is to make art. Fully illustrated with Koerner's own drawings and paintings as well as those of other influences.
Art/Essays, 120 pp, 7 x 9¼
ISBN 1-55039-080-5, paper, $24.95
Special Limited Edition, cloth, $175.00
65+ b/w and colour drawings and art reproductions
A Wilderness of Days
Maxwell Bates
Canadian painter Maxwell Bates is one of very few men who experienced and survived both the infamous "long march" of Allied prisoners into Germany at the fall of France and the equally notorious march out of Germany before the advancing Allied troops in 1945. A Wilderness of Days recounts Bates' experience on the marches and during the intervening five years spent in a prisoner-of-war camp. Poignant wash and line drawings fully illustrate the text.
Art/Memoir, 133 pp, 6 × 9
ISBN 0-919462-56-1, cloth, $25.00
26 drawings