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Irene Avaalaaqiaq
This attractive catalog features the nine textiles and drawings commissioned from Irene Avaalaaquiq by the U. of Guelph (Ontario, Canada--where Nasby is curator of the U. Art Gallery) when they awarded her an honorary doctorate for her contribution to contemporary Inuit art. The volume, which includes lengthy excerpts of interviews with the artist, details her life, the history of her home in Baker Lake, and the symbolism of her drawings and tapestries, which depict traditional and personal narratives. Co-published by McGill- Queen's U. Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Stealing the Show
... Highlights the artistic achievements of seven prominent Canadian women artists: Marcelle Ferron, Anne Kahane, Rita Letendre, Gathie Falk, Joyce Wieland, Jerry Grey, and Colette Whiten ... who received most of the commissions awarded to women between 1958 and 1988.
The Work of Art
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The Canada Year Book
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Artmagazine
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Cataloging Service
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Aspiring to the Landscape
The idea of nature as a cultural construction has been discussed extensively in postmodern theory. Less attention, however, has been paid to the underlying motivations shaping the ideologies of nature, in particular the desire to submit to some larger order outside of oneself. Aspiring to the Landscape examines this persistent desire and how it is made manifest in contemporary landscape art. Four installations of large-scale paintings by Canadian artists Eleanor Bond, Susan Feindel, Stephen Hutchings, and Wanda Koop are the focus of Petra Halkes's study. The works vary widely in style and iconography but are drawn together by the way they invite a reflection on the troubled relationship between culture and nature and our contradictory and simultaneous longing to conquer and to succumb to nature. It is the tension between modern and postmodern interpretations of the subject of nature that makes the theory and the artwork discussed in Aspiring to the Landscape so important to contemporary Canadian culture.
Canadian Art
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