James Borcoman 

19th-Century French Photographs is the second in a series of exhibitions highlighting the strengths of the National Gallery of Canada's permanent collection of photographs. The intention of the exhibition is also to provide an introduction to the history of the medium's early years; the beautifully illustrated catalogue highlights works by such photographers as Charles Marville, Gustave Le Gray, Eugène Atget, Édouard Baldus, Étienne Carjat, Henri Le Secq, and Nadar. 

Paper | 168 pages 
20.5 x 26.5 cm (8 x 10½ in.) 
Publication Date: 2010

James Borcoman 

Photographies françaises du XIXe siècle is the second in a series of exhibitions highlighting the strengths of the National Gallery of Canada's permanent collection of photographs. The intention of the exhibition is also to provide an introduction to the history of the medium's early years; the beautifully illustrated catalogue highlights works by such photographers as Charles Marville, Gustave Le Gray, Eugène Atget, Édouard Baldus, Étienne Carjat, Henri Le Secq, and Nadar. 

Paper | 168 pages 
20.5 x 26.5 cm (8 x 10½ in.) 
Publication Date: 2010

David Harris

Over the last fifty years, Gabor Szilasi, a Montreal artist born in Hungary, has created one of the most important photographic bodies of work in Canada, work that combines portraits, domestic and commercial interiors, cityscapes of Montreal and Budapest, and images from many regions of rural Quebec. This comprehensive publication contains a study of the artist, a catalogue of the works in the exhibition, and an exhaustive biography that explores the different private and professional facets of Szilasi's life.

Paper | 240 pages
23 x 29 cm (9 x 11.4 in.)
Publication Date: 2010
Available in French only

Pratapaditya 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

Kitty Scott, Jonathan Shaughnessy 

The Art Metropole Collection is a truly unique ensemble of objects collected by a group of artists known as General Idea. Comprising more than 100 objects and including works by more than 125 Canadian and international artists, The Top 100 gives greater exposure to this extensive collection and brings to light some of the rare material contained within. 

Paper | 140 pages 
18 x 23 cm (7 x 9 in.) 
Publication Date: 2006

Kitty Scott, Jonathan Shaughnessy 

The Art Metropole Collection is a truly unique ensemble of objects collected by a group of artists known as General Idea. Comprising more than 100 objects and including works by more than 125 Canadian and international artists, Le top 100 gives greater exposure to this extensive collection and brings to light some of the rare material contained within. 

Paper | 140 pages 
18 x 23 cm (7 x 9 in.) 
Publication Date: 2006

Denise Leclerc 

Les années soixante au Canada follows the trends in Canadian artistic production during that decade which tested the conventional boundaries of artistic disciplines; photographic works also testify to the experimentation and eclectisicm that characterize Canadian photography. Nearly 180 featured works by Canadian artists pinpoint the diversity of artistic expression throughout this remarkably prolific period. 

Paper | 188 pages
23 x 28 cm (9 x 11 in.) 
Publication Date: 2005 
Only available in French.

Peter Trepanier, Garry Neill Kennedy 

Known primarily as a painter, Garry Neill Kennedy has remained committed to a conceptual art practice in which he critiques painting, its processes, materials, and presentation, and reveals underlying assumptions about its making or its representation. Kennedy's printed matter serves as a valuable index to his artistic practice. This catalogue contains an inventory of more than one hundred items, and illustrates, identifies, and describes printed matter designed by or in collaboration with the artist from 1971 to 2009. 

Hardcover | 213 pages 
20 x 26 cm (7.8 x 10.2 in.) 
Publication Date: 2012

Josée Drouin-Brisebois, Bruce McCulloch, Ryan Doherty, Nancy Tousley, William Wood 

Over the last four decades Chris Cran has earned a reputation as one of the most important painters in Canada. He has challenged our experience of traditional genres of painting by creating tensions between the discordant styles and movements from which he samples, including Pop Art, Photorealism, Modernist Abstraction and Op art. To complicate this mix, he has introduced popular imagery from advertising and graphic art from magazines from the 1950s and 1960s, producing works that exude a rare and unapologetic boldness and confidence. 

Slipcase | 204 pages 
23.5 x 30 cm (9.2 x 11.8 in.) 
Publication Date: 2016 

Only available in French

Josée Drouin-Brisebois 

Caught in the Act: The Viewer as Performer is an ambitious exhibition which attests to the National Gallery of Canada's ongoing commitment to contemporary Canadian art. Eleven artists and collectives present an occasion for us to explore our roles as active participants in the artistic process; the active exchange between viewer and object becomes as significant as the artwork itself. The exhibition catalogue documents sixteen large-scale sculptural installations, while the essays provide illuminating perspectives on the artists' works in Caught in the Act. 

Hardcover | 256 pages
17 x 21.5 cm (6.7 x 8.5 in.) 
Publication Date: 2008

Josée Drouin-Brisebois 

Flagrant délit. La performance du spectateur is an ambitious exhibition which attests to the National Gallery of Canada's ongoing commitment to contemporary Canadian art. Eleven artists and collectives present an occasion for us to explore our roles as active participants in the artistic process; the active exchange between viewer and object becomes as significant as the artwork itself. The exhibition catalogue documents sixteen large-scale sculptural installations, while the essays provide illuminating perspectives on the artists' works in Flagrant délit. 

Hardcover | 256 pages
17 x 21.5 cm (6.7 x 8.5 in.) 
Publication Date: 2008

Denise 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

Denise 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

René 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

Ann 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 

Nicolas Baier, Bernard Lamarche, David Liss

This exhibition of recent photographic work by the Montreal artist Nicolas Baier is constructed around the ideas of the pareidolia, a psychological phenomenon that involves the appearance of familiar forms from vague visual or auditory sensations. The exhibition, along with the accompanying publication, was produced through the joint efforts of the artist and the Musée régional de Rimouski.

Hardcover | 108 pages
24 x 27.5 cm (9.5 x 10.8 in.) 
Publication Date: 2010

Jack Bankowsky, Alison M. Gingeras & Catherine Wood

Pop Life: Art in a Material World explores the complex relationship between contemporary art, marketing and the mass media. Beginning with the late work of American Pop artist Andy Warhol, the catalogue explores how some of today's high-profile media-savvy artists (Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Keith Haring, and Takashi Murakami, for example) have followed his lead, embracing celebrity and commerce as the foundation of their work. 

Softcover | 207 pages 
22 x 27.5 cm (8.7 x 10.8 in.) 
Publication Date: 2009

Explicit content

René 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

René 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