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"Folk Art to 1950" by John A. Fleming and Michael J. Rowan, University of Alberta Press, 2012
Chock-full of everything from tin weather vanes and painted game boards to carved barber poles and knife handles, this book resembles a cabinet of curiosities or, perhaps, the attic of a centuries-old farmhouse – minus the dust. more »
May 21, 2013 in BOOK REVIEWS
"A Concise History of Canadian Painting" by Dennis Reid, Oxford University Press, 2012
A strange thing happened on the way to the third edition of this scholarly survey of some three centuries of Canadian art history: It was waylaid by women. more »
May 21, 2013 in BOOK REVIEWS
"Back Talk (Works 1983-2009)" by Ruth Cuthand, Mendel Art Gallery/Tribe Inc., 2012
This catalogue for a recent retrospective exhibition by Ruth Cuthand was shortlisted for the 2013 Saskatchewan Book Awards. more »
May 21, 2013 in BOOK REVIEWS
"Prairie Gothic": Photographs by George Webber, Rocky Mountain Books, 2013
Calgary photographer George Webber’s moody black-and-white photographs seem to violate any sense of the wide-open spaces of clichéd flatland lore. more »
May 21, 2013 in BOOK REVIEWS
CHRIS CRAN: Candidates and Citizens TrépanierBaer Gallery, Calgary April 18 to May 18, 2013
When I first viewed Chris Cran’s paintings in a survey show at the Kelowna Art Gallery in 1998, something pricked my senses. It was not just his adroitness and competency working at large scale. more »
May 15, 2013 by Dick Averns in REVIEWS
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