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This is not a hoax
This Is Not a Hoax shows how the work of some contemporary artists and writers intentionally disrupts the curatorial and authorial practices of the country’s most respected cultural institutions: art galleries, museums, and book publishers. This first-ever study of contemporary Canadian hoaxes in...
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Drawing from history
Drawing from History brings to life the remarkable story of Toronto’s Central Technical School Art Department, a vibrant hub that inspired generations of Canadian artists.Weaving together personal insights, first-hand accounts from students and teachers, and rare archival treasures, this book tra...
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Imagining resistance
Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada offers two separate but interconnected strategies for reading alternative culture in Canada from the 1940s through to the present: first, a history of radical artistic practice in Canada and, second, a collection of eleven essays that fo...
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Image and territory
In a culture that often understands formal experimentation or theoretical argument to be antithetical to pleasure, Atom Egoyan has nevertheless consistently appealed to wide audiences around the world. If films like The Adjuster, Calendar, Exotica, and The Sweet Hereafter have ensured him interna...
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Rites of way
There are many ways to approach the subject of public space: the threats posed to it by surveillance and visual pollution; the joys it offers of stimulation and excitement, of anonymity and transformation; its importance to urban variety or democratic politics. But public space remains an evanesc...
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Ley lines
In this unique anthology, working poets respond to questions about their recent books, painters and other artists offer statements about their work, and writers respond to artworks.
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Woldemar neufeld’s canada
Woldemar Neufeld (1909–2002) emigrated with his Mennonite parents from Ukraine to Canada in 1924. By the late 1920s, he had begun his lifelong project as documentarist, responding especially to the built environment, whether close to his home in southern Ontario or farther afield: northern Ontari...
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Harmony and dissent
R. Bruce Elder argues that the authors of many of the manifestoes that announced in such lively ways the appearance of yet another artistic movement shared a common aspiration: they proposed to reformulate the visual, literary, and performing arts so that they might take on attributes of the cine...
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Videotexts
When the video camera first appeared on the market, artists hailed the newly available equipment as the new pencil, the better canvas, the best eye of all. The medium was exciting and revolutionary: low-cost and low-tech; “everybody” was curious as galleries and museums hastened to program new vi...
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Blazing figures
Robert Markle (1936–1990) was an infamous figure on the Canadian cultural scene for almost three decades. His paintings and drawings celebrating the female nude were deemed obscene by Ontario courts in 1965, and Markle defended them on national television, emphasizing what he considered a crucial...
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Sonosyntactics
Sonosyntactics introduces the reader to Paul Dutton’s poetry, ranging from lyrics, prose poems, and visual work to performance texts and scores. Sonosyntactics gathers a representative selection of his most significant and characteristic poetry together with a selection of uncollected new work.
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Indigenous media arts in canada
A timely and crucial collection of essays and conversations focused on Indigenous-settler cultural politics and the ethics of Indigenous representation in Canada’s media arts that explores issues of narrative sovereignty, cultural identity, cultural resistance and decolonizing creative practices.
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Depicting canada’s children
Depicting Canada’s Children is a critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children from the seventeenth century to the present. Recognizing the importance of methodological diversity, these essays discuss understandings of children and childhood derived from depictions across a ...
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Figuring redemption
Can visual art help redeem one’s sense of self, damaged by technological society? Michael Snow’s work is often described as self-referential, meaning that it “talks” about the relationships between its materials and images, largely ignoring relationships beyond the “frame.” However, since the w...
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Social work artfully
The past two decades have witnessed a vigorous challenge to social work. A growing global convergence between the market and the public sector means that private sector values, priorities, and forms of work organization increasingly permeate social and community services. As challenges facing peo...
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