David P. Silcox 

At a critical time in Canada's history, the Group of Seven revolutionized the country's appreciation of itself by celebrating Canada as a wild and beautiful land. These paintings of the wilderness evoke the same response in viewers today as they did when first exhibited. The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson includes many never-before reproduced paintings and presents the most complete and extensive collection of these artists' works ever published. The 400 paintings and drawings reveal the remarkable genius of all 10 painters who at some point were part of the movement. 

Paperback | 444 pages 
22.2 x 26 x 3.8 cm (8.75 x 10.24 x 1.5 in.) 
Publication Date: 2011

The Indigenous Art Collection, cared for by Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, and located at 10 Wellington, Gatineau, Quebec, is one of the most important collection of contemporary Indigenous art in Canada. Comprising over 4,300 artworks by both prominent and emerging artists, it showcases First Nations, Inuit, and Métis expression of their histories, cultures, and realities, both past and present.

Created to celebrate the Art Centre’s 50th anniversary, this stunning volume and first major monograph published by the Government of Canada about the collection, highlights the richness and the importance of Indigenous cultures and heritage as an essential part of Canadian culture.

Featured artists: Barry Ace, Roger Aksadjuak, Allen "Ahmoo" Angeconeb, Tracey Anthony, George Arluk, Germaine Arnaktauyok, Arnaquq Ashevak, Kenojuak Ashevak, Kiawak Ashoona, Shuvinai Ashoona, Jason Baerg, Rebecca Baird, Mary Anne Barkhouse, Carl Beam, Shirley Bear, Jackson Beardy, Henry Beaudry, Lance Belanger, Christi Belcourt, Leland Bell, Michael Belmore, Rebecca Belmore, Scott Benesiinaabandan, Dempsey Bob, Vince Bomberry, Bob Boyer, Simon Brascoupé, Bruno Canadien, Joane Cardinal-Schubert, Sarah Carr, Christian Chapman, Benjamin Chee Chee, Dorothy Chocolate, Lee Claremont, Hannah Claus, Dana Claxton, Eddy Cobiness, Ruth Cuthand, Colleen Cutschall, Joseph T. David, Joe David, Reg Davidson, Robert Davidson, Patricia Deadman, Blake Debassige, Beau Dick, Gertrude Dick & Simon Dick, Freda Diesing, Wally Dion, Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Sheojuk Etidlooie, Thomasie Etuangat, Jerry A. Evans, Rosalie Favell, David Garneau, David General, Richard Glazer-Danay, David Hannan, Tanya Harnett, Walter Harris, Faye HeavyShield, Chuck "Ya’Ya" Heit, Tom Hill, Richard W. Hill Sr., Robert Houle, Calvin Hunt, Henry Hunt, Tony Hunt, Maria Hupfield, Sarah Inukpuk, Elisapee Ishulutaq, Naomi Ityi, Mattiusi Iyaituk, Joseph "Joe" Jacobs, Alex Janvier, Philip Janzé, Alfred Joseph, Francis Kagige, Joshim Kakegamic, Roy Kakegamic, Towkie Karpik, Elsie Anaginak Klengenberg, Katia Kak'wa Kurtness, Rita Letendre, Eva Linklater, George Littlechild, Martin "Akwiranoron" Loft, Jim Logan, Kayley Mackay, Joelee Maniapik, Qavavau Manumie, Clifford Maracle, Teresa Marshall, Glenna Matoush, Walter McKenzie, Kevin McKenzie, Gerald McMaster, Ohotaq Mikkigak, Kent Monkman, Shirley Moorhouse, Christian Morrisseau, Norval Morrisseau, Ken Mowatt, Earl Muldon & Ron Sebastian, Nadia Myre, David Neel, Marianne Nicolson, Shelley Niro, Jeneen Frei Njootli, William Noah, Ron Noganosh, Daphne Odjig, Tim Paul, Lionel Peyachew, David Ruben Piqtoukun, Tim Pitsiulak, Susan Point, Edward Poitras, Jane Ash Poitras, Annie Pootoogook, Kananginak Pootoogook, Barry Pottle, John Powell, Pudlo Pudlat, Carl Ray, Bill Reid, Arthur Renwick, Ryan Rice, Garmel Rich, Rick Rivet, Eric A. Robertson, Kakulu Saggiaktuk, Pitaloosie Saila, Nicotye Samayualie, Allen Sapp, Frank Shebageget, Arthur Shilling, Roger Simon, Pierre Sioui, Skawennati, Ann Smith, Henry Speck, Greg Staats, Alan J. Syliboy, Gerald Tailfeathers, Winnie Tatya, Ningeokuluk Teevee, Jeffrey M. Thomas, Roy Thomas, Art Thompson, Simon Tookoome, Oviloo Tunnillie, Helen Wassegijig, Elisapee Weetaluktuk, Hjalmer Wenstob, Tania Willard, Linus Woods, Lauren I. Wuttunee, Donald Yeomans, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun.

Hardcover | 383 Pages
23.5 x 21.5 x 3.7 cm (9.3 x 8.5 x 1.5 in.)

Christi Belcourt

Based on Métis artist Christi Belcourt’s painting “Medicines to Help Us,” this innovative and vibrant resource honours the centuries-old healing traditions of Métis women. For this book, Christi Belcourt fuses her evocative artwork with Indigenous Traditional Knowledge and Western Science. With contributions from Métis Elders Rose Richardson and Olive Whitford, as well as key Michif phrases and terminology, Medicines to Help Us is the most accessible resource relating to Métis healing traditions produced to date.

Softcover | 80 pages
15.2 x 22.8 cm (5.9 x 8.9 in.)

Kent Monkman, Richard William Hill, Lucy R. Lippard, John Ralston Saul & Barbara K. Fischer 

Through the eyes of his alter ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, Cree artist Kent Monkman takes us back to 150 years of Canada's existence in nine thematic chapters, marked by the implementation of devastating genocidal policies. Monkman uses the expressive power of historical painting to make us aware of the tragedies experienced in the past by Indigenous peoples. 

Hardcover | 271 pages 
29 x 23 cm (11 x 9 in.) 
Publication date: 2020

Diana Nemiroff

From obstacles of bureaucracy to veiled challenges to women in powerful positions, Women at the Helm paints a rich picture of what it takes to lead a major art institution. In her latest book, author and art historian Diana Nemiroff explores a transformative thirty-year period in the history of the National Gallery of Canada through the careers of its first three women directors (Jean Sutherland Boggs, Hsio-yen Shih, and Shirley L. Thomson), detailing each of their unique triumphs and tribulations.

Paperback | 552 pages
85 photos, colour insert
19 x 24 cm (7.5 x 9.5 in)

Andrew Hunter

Originally produced to accompany the 2014−2015 touring exhibition of Alex Colville’s work and back by popular demand, this new printing of the highly acclaimed catalogue Colville, is now available in paperback edition.

When Alex Colville died in July 2013 at the age of ninety-two, he left an extraordinary artistic legacy. A key Canadian painter of our age, Colville possessed a peculiar intensity and crisp style of brushwork that probed deeply into the recesses of the human experience. Charting a course through five main sections that explore the complete career of this Nova Scotia painter, the exhibition catalogue begins on the front lines of the Second World War and moves through the artist’s life and times.

Paperback | 168 pages
27 x 23.5 x 1.3 cm (10.6 x 9.2 x 0.5 in.) 
Publication Date: 2017

Anne Koval 

Art historian Anne Koval wrote Mary Pratt: A Love Affair with Vision in close consultation with Pratt. The book is informed by extensive interviews with the artist, and her family, friends, and colleagues and by unprecedented access to Pratt's archival holdings at Mount Allison University. This in-depth study of Pratt's life and work explores the complex issues of gender, feminism, and realism in Canadian art, resulting in a richly layered biography of an artist who redefined the visual culture of her period and whose art and life intersect in varied and surprising ways. 

Hardcover | 316 pages 
Publication date: 2023

Anne-Marie Minella & Jean-Yves Bosseur

An overview of the use of textile in contemporary visual arts around the world.

Since the beginning of the 21st century, artists who work with thread and fabric have made their mark on the world of contemporary art. They are represented at major international events, and there are fairs dedicated to them throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia. 

This book looks at a number of artists who have used this medium in innovative and unique ways since the end of the 19th century, and profiles the creators who have chosen it to support their political, economic, social or ecological initiatives. It shows that textile art remains subversive: it blurs the boundaries between fine art, applied art and design, between tradition and modernity. It highlights "peripheral" identities and cultures. By questioning the categories of "feminine" and "masculine", it blurs genres and challenges conventions.

FEATURED ARTISTS: Anni Albers, Sophie Taeuber, Sonia Delaunay, Josep Grau-Garriga, Pierre Daquin, Alber Ayme, Cécile Borne, Yves Picquet, Caroline Coppey, Lenore Tawney, Olga de Amaral, Sheila Hicks, Simone Pheulpin, Do Ho Suh, Marie-Hélène Guelton, Joel Andrianomearisoa, Doris Salcedo, Abdoulaye Konaté, Jakkai Siributr, Aisha Khalid, Maja Bajevic, Kimsooja, Tiffany Chung, Reena Saini Kallat, Kathryn Clark, Marta Palau, Consuelo Jimenez, Tanya Aguiñiga, Jackie Amézquita, Kyungah Ham, Jéremy Gobé, Pia Camil, Võ Trân Châu, Aboubakar Fofana, Ibrahim Mahama, Teresa Margolles, Margolles & James Cohan, Tamara Kostianovsky, Thornton Dial, Faith Ringgold, Sonya Clark, Stephen Towns, Yinka Shonibare, Bob Boyer, Marie Watt, Rebecca Belmore, Paula do Prado, Maureen Gruben, Raymonde Arcier, Senga Nengudi, Haruko Crow Nishimura, Rosemarie Trockel, Ghada Amer, Joana Vasconcelos, Lin Tianmiao, Anya Paintsil, Senzeni Marasela, Billie Zangewa, Sonia Gomes, Rosana Paulino, Nadia Myre, Fiona Foley, Chiachio & Giannone, Nicholas Hlobo, Sheila Pepe, Jeffrey Gibson, Diedrick Brackens, Joyce Wieland, Victoria Andersson, Yin Xiuzhen, Virginie Rochetti, Suzanne Husky, Alexandra Kehayoglou, Nnenna Okore, Tahir Carl Karmali. 

Paperback | 296 pages 
14.8 x 21 cm (5.83 x 8.27 in.)
Only available in French

Sarah Hull

What is art? Why do we talk about narrative art? Where do artists draw their inspiration from? Throughout this fascinating book, young readers will discover surprising concepts, a profusion of colours and works by famous artists. Published in collaboration with the National Gallery of London.

Hardcover | 96 pages
26 x 20.5 cm (10.24 x 8.07 in.)
Only available in French

Nadeije Laneyrie-Dagen

This book invites the reader to discover the major periods, main styles, and significant masterpieces of art and to enrich their gaze through the texts, commentaries, and images that fill each page. 

Softcover | 564 pages 
27 x 21 cm (10.7 x 8.27 in.) 
Publication date: 2021
Only available in French

Monique Brunet-Weinmann 

Great unpublished interviews, personal memories, biographical recollections, and analysis of Riopelle's work: Monique Brunet-Weinmann leads us to understand the intellectual and emotional links that unite the work to the being. It reveals an honest portrait of Riopelle, told through the mythical figures of his work. 

Paperback | 344 pages 
15 x 23 cm (5.9 x 9 in.) 
Only available in French

Anne Newlands

For decades, the paintings of the Group of Seven have been instantly familiar to Canadians. But in the early part of the 20th century, these artists were engaged in a struggle for acceptance, mocked by critics and the public alike. In The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson author Anne Newlands explores the ambitions and visions of this unique cast of characters, capturing the cultural and historical realities of their time and bringing to life their artistic response to the Canadian wilderness.

Paperback | 66 pages 
23.5 x 23.5 cm (9.25 x 9.25 in.) 
Publication Date: 2008

Joan Murray 

A treasury of Tom Thomson's (1877–1917) most influential paintings as chosen by his friends and collectors, illustrating a moving, untold story in Canadian art.

Paperback | 152 pages
21.5 x 21 x 1 cm (8.5 x 8.3 x 0.4 in.) 
Publication Date: 2012

Paul-Émile Borduas 

In 1948, four hundred copies of an explosive manifesto appeared secretly in Quebec: Refus global, which paints a portrait of a bigoted and withdrawn society, and calls, in virtuoso language, for a poetic revolution. Borduas denounces the fears that surround individuals and calls for a poetic and anthropological revolt to give birth to a "new collective hope". 

Paperback | 64 pages 
10 x 17 cm (3.9 x 6.7 in.)
Publication date: 2023
Only available in French.

Amy Novesky 

A beautifully nuanced and poetic story, Une berceuse en chiffons captures the life of Louise Bourgeois, a world-renowned artist, and tells the story of a relationship between a mother and daughter, the birth of an artist, and how memory is stitched into us all. 

Hardcover | 40 pages
28.5 x 23.5 cm (11 x 9 in.) 
Publication date: 2016

Amy Novesky 

A beautifully nuanced and poetic story, Cloth Lullaby captures the life of Louise Bourgeois, a world-renowned artist, and tells the story of a relationship between a mother and daughter, the birth of an artist, and how memory is stitched into us all. 

Hardcover | 40 pages
28.5 x 23.5 cm (11 x 9 in.) 
Publication date: 2016

Scotiabank Photography Award

Covering over 30 years of artistic practice, this book celebrates the complex yet highly distilled photographs of Jin-me Yoon’s dynamic vision. Showcasing a camera that is a witness to performative acts occurring both inside and outside the frame, the book reveals how Yoon has expanded conceptualist understandings of image-making and contributed to ongoing discussions of place and identity. In doing so, this volume illustrates how she uses the inherent mobility of images and the forces of diasporic thinking to bring disparate worlds together in poetic relation and create conditions for a different future.

Hardcover | 228 pages
24.8 x 30.5 cm (9.76 x 12 in.)

Edited by Zoë Chan and Diana Freundl

Jin-me Yoon is an important Canadian lens-based artist who has been working steadily since emerging on Vancouver’s contemporary art scene in the 1990s. Produced in tandem with a major exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2022, About Time focuses on Yoon’s monumental and multifaceted production during the 2010s, which typically combines photography, video, performance, and installation. In these layered works, Yoon addresses the subject matter of diasporic experience, colonialism, imperialism, and militarism, but with an increasingly politicized awareness of what it means to live and work as a diasporic artist on land stolen from Indigenous peoples. Characterized by a restrained poetic style, the use of slowness and repetition, and the sensory use of sound, this period in Yoon’s corpus is undergirded by a strong environmentalist thrust. Recurring tropes of this mature phase of her work include cinematic tableaux of individuals integrated within the Pacific West Coast’s stunning natural landscapes.

Hardcover | 208 pages
17.78 x 24.77 cm (7 x 9.75 in.) 

Ming Tiampo

In Jin-me Yoon: Life & Work, Ming Tiampo reveals how Yoon’s multidisciplinary art—which includes photography, video, performances, and installations—reconnects troubled pasts with damaged presents and offers hope for a better future. It considers how one of Canada’s most important voices on the nature of identity developed a critical perspective on the representation of this country in museums, art history, the tourist industry, and monuments with groundbreaking works such as Souvenirs of the Self, 1991, and Group of Sixty-Seven, 1996, projects that, as Tiampo notes, have become “canonical touchstones in the public articulation of Canadian identity and race.”

Hardcover | 128 pages
20x28 cm (8x11 in.)

bell hooks

Defining love as an act rather than a feeling, the writer dismantles all the obstacles that patriarchal culture places in the way of healthy romantic relationships, and envisages an art of loving that goes beyond attraction and tenderness. Drawing on moral philosophy and psychology, she restores the nobility of the possibility of love, from a feminist perspective. 

Paperback | 241 pages
20.3 x 12.7 x 2.5 cm (8 x 5 x 1 po)
Publication Date: 2022 

Available in French only