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Robert Houle
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 128

Robert Houle

Saulteaux artist Robert Houle (b.1947) has claimed space and authority for Indigenous representation in contemporary art for more than fifty years. This new publication celebrates his generational influence and coincides with his exhibition Red Is Beautiful, organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario and touring to the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian Institution. A curator, writer, and educator as well as an artist, Houle has made a profound impact. Growing up on the Sandy Bay First Nation/Kaa-wii-kwe-tawang-kak in Manitoba, he was placed in residential school and denied access to his family and traditions. Always fiercely principled, he ha...

Robert Houle: Red Is Beautiful
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

Robert Houle: Red Is Beautiful

  • Categories: Art

Houle's painting blends Western abstraction, postmodernism and conceptualism with First Nations art history and techniques, challenging expectations about Indigenous aesthetics An extensive survey spanning more than 50 years, Robert Houle: Red Is Beautiful celebrates Houle's ongoing career as an internationally recognized Indigenous artist, curator and writer, calling attention to First Nations and settler-colonialist histories through the critical lens of his impressive oeuvre. Painful personal experiences from the time he spent in residential school as a youth are brought into sharp relief through painting. Houle's visual commentary tackles global topics including commercial appropriation,...

Robert Houle
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 106

Robert Houle

  • Categories: Art

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Land, Spirit, Power
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Land, Spirit, Power

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1992
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Exhibition catalogue for 'Land, Spirit, Power' at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, in 1992, a collection of contemporary art intended as a response and contribution to current discussions on questions of cultural identity, from the specific perspective of First Nations. Includes three essays, and data on each artist.

The Trickster Shift
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 346

The Trickster Shift

The Trickster Shift not only presents some of the most stunningly original examples of contemporary Native art but also allows the artists to offer their own insights into the creative process and the nature of Native humour.

Making African Christianity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 355

Making African Christianity

Making African Christianity argues that Africans successfully naturalized Christianity. It examines the long history of the faith among colonial Zulu Christians (known as amaKholwa) in what would become South Africa. As it has become clear that Africans are not discarding Christianity, a number of scholars have taken up the challenge of understanding why this is the case and how we got to this point. While functionalist arguments have their place, this book argues that we need to understand what is imbedded within the faith that many find so appealing. Houle argues that other aspects of the faith also needed to be 'translated,'particularly the theology of Christianity. For Zulu, the religion...

Before and after the Horizon
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 129

Before and after the Horizon

  • Categories: Art

This companion volume to an exhibition at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York reveals how Anishinaabe (also known in the United States as Ojibwe or Chippewa) artists have expressed the deeply rooted spiritual and social dimensions of their relations with the Great Lakes region. Featuring 70 color images of visually powerful historical and contemporary works, Before and After the Horizon is the only book to consider the work of Anishinaabe artists overall and to discuss 500 years of Anishinaabe art history.

The Lonely Man. [A Religious Tract.]
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 16

The Lonely Man. [A Religious Tract.]

  • Categories: Sin
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1860
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 441

The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson

  • Categories: Art

This book celebrates the artisitic legacy of eleven artists who broke with tradition and established a new way of painting Canada. Although they called themselves the Group of Seven, the members eventually numbered ten. Tom Thompson, who died before the group was established, was always present in spirit and in the public mind--Page 4 of cover.

60 Minute Guide to LotusScript 3 Programming for Lotus Notes 4
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 294

60 Minute Guide to LotusScript 3 Programming for Lotus Notes 4

This is a guide to LotusScript 3 in Notes, which is a programming tool to help users build customized Lotus Suite applications, such as Approach, 1-2-3 and WordPro