Product Description: With its active approach to collecting works by both acclaimed and emerging artists, the National Gallery of Canada has amassed an enormous holding of contemporary art by Canadian artists. Since 2012, the year of the last Canadian Biennial, the national institution has increased its collection by nearly 300 works by more than 90 artists...read more

Product Description: FRENCH-LANGUAGE EDITION : At the turn of the twentieth century numerous Canadian architects, artisans and artists set out to modify the esthetic and social environment through the integration of the arts. Painters produced murals; architects designed furniture; clubs formed to bring together writers, artists and architects; collectors and governments commissioned paintings, furnishings and sculpture for public and private buildings; photography rivaled painting; and crafts became applied design...read more

Product Description: Featuring the most innovative Canadian artists working today, this visually stunning publication is an essential reference for students, teachers and collectors. Attesting to the National Gallery's commitment to collecting contemporary Canadian art, three essays and over fifty individual presentations provide a thorough overview of emerging, mid-career and senior artists from all regions, traditions and backgrounds...read more

Product Description: A precarious balance between the human and natural worlds comes to the fore in Scott McFarland's large-scale photographs of meticulously maintianed private gardens. These gorgeous yet exacting images reveal the precarious balance between human and natural worlds and how photography s link to reality is both true and fabricated...read more