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Paolo Véronèse. Le retable Petrobelli (French)
$10.00 CAD
Unit price perPaolo Véronèse. Le retable Petrobelli (French)
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Unit price perXavier Salomon, Jennifer Fletcher, Stephen Gritt
The Petrobelli Altarpiece was painted by Paolo Veronese around 1563 for the Petrobelli family burial chapel near Venice; in 1788, the large painting was ruthlessly cut down and sold in pieces. Paolo Véronèse. Le Retable Petrobelli reunites the four parts of Veronese's glorious altarpiece, which have not been seen together since the painting's brutal division. The reunion and reconstruction of the altarpiece is a unique occasion to re-evaluate this Venetian Renaissance masterpiece.
Paper | 160 pages
17 x 24 cm (6.7 x 9.45 in.)
Publication date: 2009
The 1930s: The Making of "The New Man" (English)
$10.00 CAD
Unit price perThe 1930s: The Making of "The New Man" (English)
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Unit price perPierre Théberge, Jean Clair
On the heels of the Roaring Twenties, the 1930s, which spanned from the economic crisis of 1929 to the outbreak of the Second World War, was a dark decade. Beyond similar governmental mechanisms, these regimes shared an ideology: the will to create what they called the "New Man." This decade began with a more or less innocent dream of the theme of the original egg, germination, the harmonious growth of a fabric both biological and social, but ended with the nightmarish discovery of corpses in the concentration camps by the armies of liberation in 1945.
Softcover | 396 pages
23 x 30 cm (9 x 12 in.)
Publication date: 2008
Utopia/Dystopia: The Photographs of Geoffrey James (English)
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Unit price perUtopia/Dystopia: The Photographs of Geoffrey James (English)
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Unit price perLori Pauli
Recognized as one of Canada's most eloquent interpreters of landscape, Geoffrey James has been making photographs since the early 1970s. His first photographs, images of gardens, express classical notions of beauty as they reveal the geometry and underlying structures of the formal garden. These small panoramic photographs evoke a quiet passion for the great landscape schemes and natural sanctuaries of the past. In his most recent work, James pays particular attention to the way in which nature and culture intersect. While not concerned with "Romantic" notions of "the ruin," his photographs do suggest a fall from grace.
Hardcover | 176 pages
Publication Date: 2008
Utopie/Dystopie. Les photographies de Geoffrey James (French)
$10.00 CAD
Unit price perUtopie/Dystopie. Les photographies de Geoffrey James (French)
$10.00 CAD
Unit price perLori Pauli
Recognized as one of Canada's most eloquent interpreters of landscape, Geoffrey James has been making photographs since the early 1970s. His first photographs, images of gardens, express classical notions of beauty as they reveal the geometry and underlying structures of the formal garden. These small panoramic photographs evoke a quiet passion for the great landscape schemes and natural sanctuaries of the past. In his most recent work, James pays particular attention to the way in which nature and culture intersect. While not concerned with "Romantic" notions of "the ruin," his photographs do suggest a fall from grace.
Hardcover | 176 pages
Publication Date: 2008
Acting The Part: Photography as Theatre (English)
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Unit price perActing The Part: Photography as Theatre (English)
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Unit price perLori Pauli, Marta Weiss, Ann Thomas, Karen Henry
Since the earliest days of photography, artists have directed models posing before the camera and, through the use of theatrical props, costumes, and lighting, have created "staged" photographs that tell a story. Acting the Part is the first major history of this enduring and highly creative branch of photography. Beautiful illustrations range from the earliest salted paper prints and daguerreotypes to today's digitally manipulated images. The book also presents 57 short biographies of the genre's leading practitioners, including Oscar Rejlander, Julia Margaret Cameron, Lewis Carroll, Man Ray, Duane Michals, Les Krims, Jeff Wall, Yasumasa Morimura and Wang Qingsong, among others.
Softcover & Hardcover | 176 pages
28.5 x 23.5 x 1.5 cm (11.2 x 9.3 x 0.6 in.)
Publication Date: 2006
La photographie mise en scène. Créer l'illusion du réel (French)
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Unit price perLa photographie mise en scène. Créer l'illusion du réel (French)
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Unit price perLori Pauli, Marta Weiss, Ann Thomas, Karen Henry
Since the earliest days of photography, artists have directed models posing before the camera and, through the use of theatrical props, costumes, and lighting, have created "staged" photographs that tell a story. Acting the Part is the first major history of this enduring and highly creative branch of photography. Beautiful illustrations range from the earliest salted paper prints and daguerreotypes to today's digitally manipulated images. The book also presents 57 short biographies of the genre's leading practitioners, including Oscar Rejlander, Julia Margaret Cameron, Lewis Carroll, Man Ray, Duane Michals, Les Krims, Jeff Wall, Yasumasa Morimura and Wang Qingsong, among others.
Softcover & Hardcover | 176 pages
28.5 x 23.5 x 1.5 cm (11.2 x 9.3 x 0.6 in.)
Publication Date: 2006
La Grande Parade. Portrait de l'artiste en clown (French)
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Unit price perLa Grande Parade. Portrait de l'artiste en clown (French)
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Unit price perJean Clair
The Great Parade: Portrait of the Artist as Clown is a spectacular international exhibition featuring masterpieces that explore the fascination the circus has held for artists from the 18th century to the present. The catalogue brings together nearly 200 works - paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculptures and videos - from Watteau and Chardin to Boltanski and Cindy Sherman, via Tiepolo, Goya, Daumier, Courbet, Seurat, Ensor, Rouault, Léger, Klee, Chagall and Picasso, among others.
Hardcover | 424 pages
Publication Date: 2004
Available in French only
Robert Davidson. Au seuil de l'abstraction (French)
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Unit price perRobert Davidson. Au seuil de l'abstraction (French)
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Unit price perKaren Duffek
This catalogue features thirty paintings and sculptures by Robert Davidson, a leading contemporary Haida artist who works to expand and transform his understanding of Haida art and cultural practice through engagement with abstraction, reclaiming cultural knowledge, and developing a personal iconography in his art.
Paper | 64 pages
20.5 x 25.5 cm (8 x 11 in.)
Publication Date: 2004
Available in French only
Marion Tuu'luq (French)
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Unit price perMarion Tuu'luq (French)
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Unit price perMarie Bouchard
For some 20 years, Marion Tuu'luq painted with woolen fabrics and cotton threads, stitching an art of many layers, both metaphoric and physical. This catalogue presents 37 colour plates and 28 figures.
Softcover | 110 pages
Publication Date: 2002
Robert Murray: The Factory as Studio (English)
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Unit price perRobert Murray: The Factory as Studio (English)
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Unit price perDenise Leclerc, Marion Barclay
This exhibition catalogue seeks to explore the North American career of one of this century's outstanding sculptors in the technique of welded metal who has been working in the industry since the end of the 1950s.
Paper | 196 pages
20.5 x 29 cm (8 x 11.4 in.)
Publication Date: 1999
Robert Murray. De l'atelier à l'usine (French)
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Unit price perRobert Murray. De l'atelier à l'usine (French)
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Unit price perDenise Leclerc, Marion Barclay
This exhibition catalogue seeks to explore the North American career of one of this century's outstanding sculptors in the technique of welded metal who has been working in the industry since the end of the 1950s.
Paper | 196 pages
20.5 x 29 cm (8 x 11.4 in.)
Publication Date: 1999
Quebec Silver (English)
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Unit price perQuebec Silver (English)
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Unit price perRené Villeneuve
The National Gallery's collection of Quebec silver — the largest and most complete in the world — took its impetus from the donation of the Henry Birks Collection of Canadian Silver in 1979. It has since been strongly enriched. Curator René Villeneuve opens this volume by exploring the formation of the Birks collection in light of the history of silver in Canada and the collector's goals and achievements. He then undertakes the first major stylistic analysis of Quebec silver, going far beyond the compilation of new data to approach the subject from a fresh and intriguing perspective.
Virginia B. Alexandor, a niece of Henry G. Birks, introduces this study with a charming memoir. The book includes fifty-one black-and-white reproductions, many never before seen.
Softcover | 124 pages
18.6 x 28 cm (7.3 x 11 in.)
Publication Date: 1998
Orfèvrerie québécoise (French)
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Unit price perOrfèvrerie québécoise (French)
$10.00 CAD
Unit price perRené Villeneuve
The National Gallery's collection of Quebec silver — the largest and most complete in the world — took its impetus from the donation of the Henry Birks Collection of Canadian Silver in 1979. It has since been strongly enriched. Curator René Villeneuve opens this volume by exploring the formation of the Birks collection in light of the history of silver in Canada and the collector's goals and achievements. He then undertakes the first major stylistic analysis of Quebec silver, going far beyond the compilation of new data to approach the subject from a fresh and intriguing perspective.
Virginia B. Alexandor, a niece of Henry G. Birks, introduces this study with a charming memoir. The book includes fifty-one black-and-white reproductions, many never before seen.
Softcover | 124 pages
18.6 x 28 cm (7.3 x 11 in.)
Publication Date: 1998
Baroque to Neo-Classical: Sculpture in Quebec (English)
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Unit price perBaroque to Neo-Classical: Sculpture in Quebec (English)
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Unit price perRené Villeneuve
This fully illustrated catalogue is an original interpretation of the stylistic evolution of Quebec sculpture between 1650 and 1850.
Paper | 264 pages
23.7 x 29.2 cm (9.4 x 11.5 in.)
Publication Date: 1997
Beauty of Another Order: Photography in Science (English)
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Unit price perBeauty of Another Order: Photography in Science (English)
$10.00 CAD
Unit price perAnn Thomas with essays by Marta Braun, Mimi Cazort, Martin Kemp, John P. McElhone, and Larry J. Schaaf.
By bringing together the works of photographers such as Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, William Henry Fox Talbot, Étienne-Jules Marey, Eadweard Muybridge, Anna Atkins, Charles Marville, Lewis Rutherfurd, Edward Emerson Barnard, Karl Blossfeldt and Berenice Abbott, among others, Beauty of Another Order looks at the scientific purposes and the aesthetic expression and influence of this genre of photography.
Softcover |256 pages
28 x 21.5 (11 x 8.5 in.)
Published Date: 1997
Images divines, perceptions humaines (French)
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Unit price perImages divines, perceptions humaines (French)
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Unit price perPratapaditya Pal
Images divines, perceptions humaines : la collection Max Tanenbaum d'art d'Asie du Sud et de l'Himalaya au Musée des beaux-arts du Canada
While the Gallery acquired representative examples of historic Asian art beginning in the early 20th century, its holdings were transformed thanks to the generous gift of Max Tanenbaum (1909–1983), who donated part of the collection of the late Nasli Heeramaneck (1902–1971) in 1980.
This book commemorates one of the most sumptuous gifts in the history of the National Gallery of Canada. Dr. Hsio-Yen Shih (1933–2001), the sixth director of the National Gallery of Canada from 1977–1981, attracted this remarkable donation in an attempt to expand the collection beyond the confines of the arts of Canada, Europe and North America.
Softcover | 166 pages
20.32 x 25.4 cm (8 x 11 in.)
Publication Date: 1997
Printed in Canada
Available in French only