Special Interest / Topics / Anthologies / Essay Collections
| undefined | Publication Title | Contributing Author(s) or Editor(s) | Published By | Publication Date | Keywords | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aisemberg, Paula, Sigrid Dahle, et all | My Winnipeg | La maison rouge, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art | 2011 | Winnipeg; lifestyle; prairies; culture | ||
| Alexander, Charles (ed.) | Talking the Boundless Book: Art, Language, & the Book Arts | Minnesota Centre for Book Arts | 1995 | book arts; crtitcism; | ||
| Barr, Jr., Alfred H. | What is Modern Painting? (revised edition) (9th ed.) | The Museum of Modern Art New York | 1988 | painting; modern | ||
| Berger, John | About Looking | Pantheon Books | 1980 | art criticism; art critic; | ||
| Canyon, Brice (ed.) | Live at the End of the Century: Aspects of Performance Art in Vancouver | Visible Arts Society | 2000 | performance art; Vancouver; anthology; culture | ||
| Choiniere, France (ed.) | les essais: Pratiques déviantes | Jeanne Randolph, Marc Archambault, Kim Sawchuk, David Thomas, Engen Bavcar | Dazibao | 1999 | reproductions; photography; photographic history; | |
| Choinière, France, and Michèle Thériault (eds.) | les essais: Point & Shoot: performance and photography | Diana Nemiroff, Chantal Pontbriand, Rebecca Schneider, Karen Henry, Doyon/Demers, Jan Peacock | Dazibao | 2005 | performance art; representation; illusion; contemporary photography; | |
| Choiniere, France, and Stephen Horne (eds.) | les essais: Fiction: or other Accounts of Photography | Stephen Horne, Emmanuel Hermange, Saul Anton, Akira Mizuta Lippit, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Olivier Asselin, Colette Tougas | Dazibao | 2000 | photography; photographic theory; imagination; fiction; the gaze; | |
| Choiniere, France, and Vincent Lavoie (eds.) | les essais: Shock Waves: Photography Rocks Representation | David Dorenbaum, Anne Benichou, Denys Riout, John O'Brian, Yves Jubinville, Marta Braun | Dazibao | 2003 | photography; photographic theory; the gaze; cultural; social; | |
| Chhangur, Emelie and Philip Monk | Migrating The Margins | Emelie Chhangur and Philip Monk | Art Gallery of York University | 2019 | Toronto; suburban; culture; identity | |
| Clausen, Barbara, Jade Boivin, Emmanuelle Choquette | An Annotated Bibliography in Real Time: Performance Art in Quebec and Canada, 3rd Edition | Clausen, Barbara, Jade Boivin, Emmanuelle Choquette | Editions Artexte | 2019 | performance art; Quebec; anthology; culture | |
| Coleman, Helen "Bubs" | Dreaming a Gallery: Saskatoon's Mendel Art Gallery in History and Memory | Mendel Art Gallery | 2015 | Saskatoon; history; prairies; art gallery; anthology | ||
| Day, Peter, and Linda Lewis | Art in Everyday Life: Observations on Contemporary Canadian Design | Summerhill Press, The Power Plant | 1988 | Canada; art; design; function; | ||
| Dorner, Jennifer | Independent Media Arts in Canada: On the History of the Alliance | Independent Media Arts Alliance | 2007 | |||
| Ecker, Gisela (ed.) | Feminist Aesthetics | The Women's Press Ltd. | 1985 | women; feminism; aesthetics; culture; | ||
| Flaman, Bernard | Character and Controversy: The Mendel Art Gallery and Modernist Architecture in Saskatoon | Mendel Art Gallery | 2004 | art gallery; design; history; Saskatoon; prairies; architecture; | ||
| Franscina, Francis (ed.) | Pollock and After: The critical debate | Harper & Row Publishers | 1985 | Abstract Expressionism; Modernist; art history; post-war American art and culture | ||
| Franscina, Francis, and Charles Harrison | Modern Art and Modernism: A Critical Anthology | The Open University | 1982 | Modernist; art history; theory; criticism; aesthetics | ||
| Fung, Amy | Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being | Book*Hug Press | 2019 | nonfiction essays; muliculturalism; settler colonialism; identity; art critic | ||
| Guest, Tim and Germano Celant | Books by Artists | Tim Guest (ed.) | Art Metropole | 1981 | artists' books; 1980s; book arts; | |
| Gupta, Nila and Makeda Silvera | The Issue is 'Ism: Women of Colour Speak Out | Sister Vision | 1989 | feminism; racism; culture; identity; imperialism; classism; sexism; | ||
| Haensel, Regine | Creating Community: A Brief History and Culture in Saskatoon | City of Saskatoon | 2011 | history; art and culture; Saskatoon; innovation; prairies; community; | ||
| Häussler, Iris | The Sophie La Rosière Project | Philip Monk | Art Gallery of York University | 2019 | persona; heteronym; installations; site specific; investigation; | |
| Hawkes, Terrence (ed.) | Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class | Janet Batsleer, Tony Davies, Rebecca O'Rourke, Chris Weedon | Methuen & Co. Ltd. | 1985 | literary studies; feminism; classism; identity; society; | |
| Hertz, Richard (ed.) | Theories of Contemporary Art (2nd ed.) | Prentice-Hall Inc. | 1995 | post modernism; art criticism; anthology; | ||
| Hess, Thomas B., and Elizabeth C. Baker (eds.) | Art and Sexual Politics: Why have there been no great women artists? | Art News Associates | 1973 | feminism; sexism; art history; women; | ||
| Honig Fine, Elsa | Women and Art: A History of Women Painters and Sculptors from the Renaissance to the 20th Century | Rowman & Allenheld Publishers | 1978 | women; Renaissance art; modern art; sculpture; painting; | ||
| Hughes, Lynn and Marie-Josee Lafortune (eds.) | Creative Con/Fusions: Interdisciplinary Practices in Contemporary Art | Lynne Bell, Joan Borsa, Tim Clark, Curtis J. Collins, Jean Dubois, Vera Frenkel, Amy Gogarty, Nicole Jolicoeur, Johanne Lamoureux, Denis Lessard, Patrice Loubier, Mireille Perron, Christine Ross, Guy Sioui Durand | OPTICA, un centre d'art contemporain | 2001 | contemporary art; interdisciplinary; performance; video; Quebec; critical thinking | |
| Innis Dagg, Anne | The 50% Solution: Why Should Women Pay for Men's Culture? | Otter Press | 1986 | women; feminism; aesthetics; culture; sexism; men | ||
| Jardine, Alice A. | Gynesis: Configurations of Woman and Modernity | Cornell University Press | 1985 | interdisciplinary; women; 'the feminine'; modernity; feminism; criticism; | ||
| Jeffries, Bill, Glen Lowry, and Jerry Zaslove (eds.) | Unfinished Business: Photographing Vancouver Streets, 1955 to 1985 | west coast line, Presentation House Gallery | 2005 | Vancouver; photography; urban planning; cities; Canada; architecture; culture | ||
| Johanson, Patricia | Art and Survival: Creative Solutions to Environmental Problems | Gallerie Publications | 1992 | environmentalism; sculpture; women; ecological; land art | ||
| Kallio, Natalie (ed.) | writers by writers | Maureen Latta, Keith Bell, Diana Savage, Annie Gérin, Sherryl Melnyk, Myrna Kostash, Judy McNaughton, Helen Marzolf | Mendel Art Gallery, PAVED Arts, Blackflash Magazine | 2003 | ||
| Kelley, Caffyn (ed.) | Forbidden Subjects: Sef-Portraits by Lesbian Artists | Gallerie Publications | 1992 | self portraits; anthology; identity; community; sex; women; lesbian; | ||
| Kelley, Caffyn (ed.) | Give Back: First Nations Perspectives on Cultural Practice | Maria Campbell, Doreen Jensen, Joy Asham Fedorick, Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Jeannette Armstrong, Lee Maracle | Gallerie Publications | 1992 | Indigenous; culture; identity; women; anthology; Indigenous art; tradition; | |
| Lauer, David A., and Stpehen Pentak | Design basics, 4th ed. | Harcourt Brace & Company | 1995 | architecture; design; function; design theory; | ||
| Lavoie, Vincent | L'Instant - Monument: du fait divers à l'humanitaire | Dazibao | 2001 | photography; documentary; anthology; French; | ||
| Lemecha, Vera (ed.) | Culture of Communtiy | Mentoring Artists for Womens Art | 2004 | feminism; culture; artist run centres; women; anthology; bigraphical; | ||
| Lickers, Cynthia and Lisa Steele | imagine Native | V tape, Aboriginal Film and Video Art Alliance of Ontario | 1998 | Indigenous; culture; identity; film; video; 1990s; 1980s; catalogue; Indigenous artists; | ||
| Lippard, Lucy R. | From The Center: feminist essays on women's art | E. P. Dutton New York | 1976 | feminism; art critic; contemporary art; women; essays; | ||
| Lyons, Joan (ed.) | Artists' Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook | Gibbs M. Smith, Inc., Peregrine Smith Books, Visual Studies Workshop Press | 1985 | artists' books; anthology; book arts; essays; art history; | ||
| Macnair, Peter L., Alan L. Hoover, and Kevin Neary | The Legacy: Tradition and Innovation in Northwest Coast Indian Art | British Columbia Provincial Museum | 1984 | Indigenous art and culture; tradition; identity; anthropology; British Columbia; sculpture; carvings; | ||
| Mallett, Kyla, Denise Oleksijczuk, and Rachelle Sawatsky | An Art of the Weak: Marginalia, Writers and Readers | Artspeak | 2007 | artists' books; language; culture; women; text; | ||
| Maranda, Michael | Waging Culture: A report on the socio-economic status of Canadian visual artists | AGYU | 2009 | Canada; economics; Canadian artists; report; | ||
| Marcotte, Celine (ed.) | DSM-V+: devidoir de syndromes magnifiques | Folie/Culture | 2007 | mental health in Canada; Quebec; French; culture; critical thinking; identity; | ||
| Mattelart, Michele | Women Media Crisis: Femininity and Disorder | Comedia Publishing Group | 1986 | women; media studies; women in media; feminism; social science; culture | ||
| McFadden, J.J. Keegan (ed.) | Palimpsest | Platform centre for photographic + digital arts | 2012 | photography; documentary; tradition; anthology; text; | ||
| Mewburn, Charity | Sixteen Hundred Miles North of Denver | Scott Watson (ed.) | Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery | 1999 | conceptual art; Canada; Vancouver; 1970s; photgraphy; | |
| Monk, Philip | Is Toronto Burning? Three Years in the Making (and Unmaking) of the Toronto Art Scene | Black Dog Publishing Limited | 2016 | political art; Toronto; Canada; new art; video; performance; art and society; artist run centres; subculture | ||
| Morris, Jerrold | On the Enjoyment of Modern Art | Society for Art Publications | 1965 | modern art; contemporary; art history | ||
| Ostry, Bernard | The Cultural Connection | Robert Fulford (intro.) | McClelland and Stewart Ltd. | 1978 | art and politics; government; policy; Canada; culture | |
| Parker, Rozsika | The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the making of the feminine | The Women's Press Ltd. | 1984 | embroidery; women; art history; criticism; sexism; fine arts; socialism | ||
| Parker, Rozsika and Griselda Pollock | Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology | Pantheon Books | 1981 | the artist; feminism; women;; sexism; culture; art history; criticism | ||
| Pelfrey, Robert H. | Art and Mass Media | Mary Hall-Pelfrey | Harper & Row Publishers | 1985 | art history; mass media; fine art; | |
| Pontbriand, Chantal (ed.) | Parachute: Essais Choisis 1975-1984 | Éditions Parachute | 2004 | anthology; contemporary art; art magazine; art critic; Quebec; 1970s; 1980s; | ||
| Pontbriand, Chantal (ed.) | Parachute: Essais Choisis 1985-2000 | Éditions Parachute | 2004 | anthology; contemporary art; art magazine; art critic; Quebec; 1980s; 1990s; | ||
| Poulin, Daniel | Vagabondages: Récit Aventureux | Boréal Art/Nature | 2000 | |||
| Pruesse, Kym (ed.) | Accidental Audience: Urban Interventions by Artists | Carol Becker, Suzanne Lacy, Lisa Gabrielle Mark | the off/site collective | 1999 | public spaces; site specific; urban intervention as art; community; modern; | |
| Randolph, Jeanne | Ethics of Luxury | Ihor Holubizky, Anthony Kiendl | YYZ Books | 2007 | ethics; consumerism; culture; materialism; art and society | |
| Shahn, Ben | The Shape of Content | Harvard University Press | 1980 | community; material; communication; painting; illustration; art history; | ||
| Swidzinski, Jan | Freedon and Limitation - The Anatomy of Post-modernism | Brian Dyson | Syntax Publishing | 1985 | Contextual art; 1980s; art and society; Postmodernism; role of the artist; | |
| Testa, Bart | spirit in the landscape | Vivian Elias (ed.) | Art Gallery of Ontario | 1989 | Canadian; experimental film; landscape; avante garde film; catalogue; | |
| Town, Elke (ed.) | Video by Artists 2 | Art Metropole | 1986 | video art; mass media; anthology; video; | ||
| Tregebov, Rhea (ed.) | Work in Progress: Building Feminist Culture | The Women's Press Ltd. | 1987 | feminism; anthology; Canadian; arts; literature; film; video; theatre; architecture; | ||
| Wawzonek, Donna and Andrew Hunter | Shifting Territory: artist-run centres and exhibition practice | Gallery 101 | 2001 | artist-run centres; culture; curatorial practices; institution; the artist; the audience; | ||
| Willard, Tania | Access All Areas: conversations on engaged arts | Devora Neumark, Irwin Oostindie, Maria Hupfield, Peter Morin, Chris Bose, Caffyn Kellley, Melanie Fernandez, Glenn Alteen, Oliver Kelhammer, Darren O'Donnell, Jules Rochielle, Lori Weidenhammer and Paula Jardine. | Grunt Gallery | 2008 | community arts; muliculturalism; criticism; community engagement; activism; socially engage arts; | |
| Young Man, Alfred | North American Indian Art: It's a Question of Integrity | Kamloops Art Gallery | 1998 | contemporary art; First Persons; Indigenous; culture; stereotypes; | ||
| Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake | As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance | University of Minnesota Press | 2017 | Indigenous; community; culture, identity; resistance; settler colonialism; activism; | ||
| Ratt, Solomon | mâci-nêhiyawêwin = Beginning Cree | Holly Martin (illustrations) | University of Regina Press | 2016 | Cree; lanuage; Indigenous languages; self-study resource; | |
| Coulthard, Glen Sean | Red Skin White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition | The University of Minnesota Press | 2014 | Indigenous; culture; colonization and resistance; identity | ||
| Ahenakew, Freda, and H.C. Wolfart | Kôhkominawak Otâcimowiniwâwa: Our Grandmothers' Lives As Told in Their Own Words | Glecia Bear, Irene Calliou, Janet Feitz, Minnie Fraser, Alpha Lafond, Rosa Longneck, Mary Wells | Canadian Plains Research Centre, University of Regina | 1998 | Indigenous languages; women; culture; autobiographical | |
| Campbell, Tenille K. | Nedí Nezų: Good Medicine | Arsenal Pulp Press Vancouver | 2021 | poetry; erotica; Indigenous women; Cree; Dene; identity; humour; sex; |