Art & Architecture

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At Home

Talks with Canadian Artists about Place and Practice

 In this intimate investigation of the artistic process, Lezli Rubin-Kunda explores the nuanced path of creative work and the way artists make sense of home and place within their art practice and … 232 View

Common Threads

Weaving Community through Collaborative Eco-Art

 Common Threads is a unique guide to engaging community members in communal handwork for the greater good. Author Sharon Kallis provides a wealth of ideas for: * Working with unwanted natural … 283 View

Doing Respectful Research

Power, Privilege and Passion

 Doing Respectful Research is situated within a critical, feminist postmodern framework and addresses the complexities of conducting respectful qualitative research with human participants. Three … 294 View

Indigenous Women’s Theatre in Canada

A Mechanism of Decolonization

 Despite a recent increase in the productivity and popularity of Indigenous playwrights in Canada, most critical and academic attention has been devoted to the work of male dramatists, leaving … 192 View
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Qummut Qukiria!

Art, Culture, and Sovereignty Across Inuit Nunaat and Sápmi: Mobilizing the Circumpolar North

 Qummut Qukiria! celebrates art and culture within and beyond traditional Inuit and Sámi homelands in the Circumpolar Arctic — from the continuance of longstanding practices such as … ; ; 448 View

Storming the Old Boys’ Citadel

Two Pioneer Women Architects of Nineteenth Century North America

 “Women” and “architecture” were once mutually exclusive terms. In an 1891 address, Louise Blanchard Bethune declared, “it is hardly safe to assert” that a … ; 234 View
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The Great Canadian Art Fraud Case

The Group of Seven & Tom Thomson Forgeries

 In May 2016, Jon S. Dellandrea came into possession of a box of the last effects of an obscure artist, William Firth MacGregor. The contents of the box chronicled a major, and long forgotten, … 192 View
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Cast of Characters & Introduction

From: The Great Canadian Art Fraud Case

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 Introduction by the author and a list people involved throughout the book. 15 $1.50 Add
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Glossary

From: Qummut Qukiria!

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 A glossary of words and language used throughout the text. ; ; 18 $1.80 Add
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Catalyst for Writing This Book

From: Doing Respectful Research

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From: Common Threads

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 By recognizing that human culture is a part of the ecosystem — not separate — and by creatively reimagining what symbiotic relationships of local production and consumption might look … 6 $0.60 Add
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From: Storming the Old Boys’ Citadel

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 The introduction provides a brief history of architecture in the United States and Canada, the evolution of the laws, regulations, and standards that shaped modern architecture. It then provides … ; 22 $2.20 Add
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Setting Out

From: At Home

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Chapter 1 : The Box

Part One: An Art History Mystery

From: The Great Canadian Art Fraud Case

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 The author details the start of his research by finding a box with papers, notebooks, poems, and essay once belonging to one of the main subjects and artists of the book, William Firth MacGregor. 14 $1.40 Add
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Introduction

From: Qummut Qukiria!

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 An introduction from the collections three editors. ; ; 10 $1.00 Add
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Locating and Re-locating

From: At Home

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 Chapter 1 focuses on author and artist Lezli Rubin-Kunda, who speaks on her own experiences with belonging, her art, and her sense of home as both a Canadian and Israeli. 13 $1.30 Add