Andréi Nakov

Beginning in 1914 in Russia, a group of artists primed for experimentation introduced an entirely new direction for the visual arts, articulating the language of abstraction with Suprematism and Constructivism. This catalogue centers on the emergence of the Russian avant-garde movement in Moscow until the mid-1920s. Works by El Lissitzky, Vladimir Tatlin, Kazimir Malevich, Ilya Chashnik, Liubov Popova, Olga Rozanova and Ivan Kliun are featured. Also included is a rich selection of books, manuscripts, drawings and prints, reminding us that, for many Russians in the early twentieth century, art was a part of everyday life.

Paperback | 168 pages
Publication Date: 2016

Angus Hyland and Caroline Roberts

Cats have been revered by artists since ancient times for their beauty, grace, independence, and air of mystery. Domesticated, but with a touch of the wild about them, they share our homes and endlessly fascinate us. The Book of the Cat is a cool and quirky collection of feline art and illustration by artists from around the world. Beautifully designed and packaged, the book will appeal to cat lovers of all ages.

Paperback | 160 pages
17.8 x 15.2 cm (7 x 6 in.) 
Publication Date: 2017

Edited by Réjean Legault with contributions by Susanna Caccia Gherardini, Karen Colby-Stothart, Josée Drouin-Brisebois, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, Serena Maffioletti, Cammie McAtee, Franco Panzini, and Andrea Pertoldeo.

This richly illustrated book offers a detailed account of the history and evolution of the Canada Pavilion, built in 1958 in the gardens of the Venice Biennale.

Complete with reproductions of archival material including photographs, drawings, and maps, along with a portfolio from contemporary photographers, this commemorative publication includes essays on: the cultural and political context in which the Canada Pavilion committee worked; the concept and construction of the building and the links with architect Enrico Peressutti and the BBPR partnership; the Pavilion’s role in the postwar Italian cultural context and its fortunes from its inauguration in 1958 to the restoration in 2018; the restoration project itself, and finally, the relationship between the Pavilion and the Biennale Gardens.

Following the roles of key players involved in the design and construction of the building, to its multifaceted use over the past sixty years in exhibiting the work of some of Canada’s most talented artists and architects, The Canada Pavilion at the Venice Biennale illuminates the Pavilion’s great importance in the context of modern architecture, art and culture, and international political diplomacy.

Hardcover | 192 pages
24 x 28 cm (9.4 x 11 in.)
Publication Date: 2020

Erika Dolphin
with Jonathan L. Meakins

The Collectors’ Cosmos: The Meakins–McClaran Print Collection provides a glimpse into the making of what is, undoubtedly, the foremost private collection of 16th and 17th-century Dutch and Flemish prints in Canada. While that is the strength of the collection, there is also a joyful touch of eclecticism reflecting the Renaissance interests of the collectors Dr. Jonathan Meakins and Dr. Jacqueline McClaran.

In this beautiful and fully illustrated catalogue, Dr. Meakins takes us through the collection’s history, which began forty years ago in Paris following an afternoon in a room full of prints by Camille Pissarro at the Grand Palais. He reflects upon how a collection is never static; it ebbs and flows much like life. The other essay by Erika Dolphin, a personal account of her exploration of the collection, examines the flourishing of images of landscape in northern Europe and illustrates how art in the form of a humble print can lead us to reflect upon the myriad wonders of life.

Softcover | 216 pages
24.5 x 30 cm (9.6 x 11.8 in.)
Publication Date: 2021

Winning Title (Pictorial), The Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada, 2018

Ann Thomas and John McElhone

This lavish publication celebrates fifty years of collecting photographs at the National Gallery of Canada. When the NGC began acquiring photos in 1967, few museums viewed the medium as fine art. Thanks to the passion and dedication of early supporters, a comprehensive collection has taken shape over the past half century. Drawn from one of the world’s most significant photographs holdings, The Extended Moment highlights the collection’s rich diversity, chronicling its formative years and exploring how the technical photographic process has evolved.

Hardcover | 336 pages 
23 x 29 cm (9 x 11.4 in.)
Publication Date: 2018

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

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.)

Sheila Watt-Cloutier

The Arctic ice is receding each year, but just as irreplaceable is the culture, the wisdom that has allowed the Inuit to thrive in the Far North for so long. And it's not just the Arctic. The whole world is changing in dangerous, unpredictable ways. Sheila Watt-Cloutier has devoted her life to protecting what is threatened and nurturing what has been wounded. In this culmination of Watt-Cloutier's regional, national, and international work over the last twenty-five years, The Right to Be Cold explores the parallels between safeguarding the Arctic and the survival of Inuit culture, of which her own background is such an extraordinary example. This is a human story of resilience, commitment, and survival told from the unique vantage point of an Inuk woman who, in spite of many obstacles, rose from humble beginnings in the Arctic to become one of the most influential and decorated environmental, cultural, and human rights advocates in the world.

Softcover | 368 pages
13.3 x 20.8 cm (5.3 x 8.2 in.) 
Publication Date: 2016

Katy Hessel

How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway?

Discover the glittering paintings by Sofonisba Anguissola of the Renaissance, the radical work of Harriet Powers in the nineteenth-century United States and the artist who really invented the “readymade.” Explore the Dutch Golden Age, the astonishing work of postwar artists in Latin America, and the women defining art in the 2020s. Have your sense of art history overturned and your eyes opened to many art forms often ignored or dismissed. From the Cornish coast to Manhattan, Nigeria to Japan, this is the history of art as it’s never been told before. 

Hardcover | 512 pages 
16.5 x 24.4 cm (6.5 x 9.6 in.) 
Publication Date: 2023

Marc Mayer, Robert Storr 

This exhibition catalogue accompanies the first major retrospective of Thomas Nozkowski's works, organized by the National Gallery of Canada. The book includes stunning reproductions of over 60 paintings along with essays by Marc Mayer - curator of the exhibition and Director of the Gallery - and Robert Storr - Dean of the Yale School of Art. The texts provide new insight into the work of this contemporary artist, whose unrivalled originality has ensured the survival of abstraction, keeping it fresh and relevant for the twenty-first century. 

Hardcover | 171 pages 
30 x 29 cm (11.8 x 11.4 in.) 
Publication Date: 2009

Leslie Boyd

The first monograph on Cape Dorset artist Tim Pitsiulak (1967–2016), this richly illustrated book presents more than seventy reproductions and photographs, and includes personal annotations by the artist, along with an essay by Leslie Boyd, former director of Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto. 

Hardcover | 84 pages
23.6 x 1.5 x 20.8 cm (9.3 x 0.6 x 8.2 in.) 
Publication Date: 2018

David Silcox

A forerunner of the Group of Seven, Tom Thomson's compelling works ignited a powerful national art movement that shaped the way Canadians viewed their land. This illustrated introduction to his work covers: Thomson's childhood and early years; his career as a commercial artist; the influence of Lawren Harris and J.E.H.MacDonald; his fame as an artist; his discovery of Algonquin Park; and the mystery surrounding his death.

Paperback | 64 pages 
22.8 x 22.8 cm (9 x 9 in.) 
Publication Date: 2002

Richard Van Camp and Julie Flett

Richard Van Camp, internationally renowned storyteller and bestselling author of the hugely successful Welcome Song for Baby: A Lullaby for Newborns, has partnered with award-winning illustrator Julie Flett to create a tender board book for babies and toddlers that celebrates the potential of every child. With its delightful contemporary illustrations, Tout petit toi is perfect to be shared, read or sung to all the little people in your life—and the new little ones on the way!

Hardcover | 32 pages 
Publication Date: 2020

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

Edited by Joar Nango, Taqralik Partridge, Jocelyn Piirainen, and Rafico Ruiz

An Indigenous-led publication, Towards Home explores how Inuit, Sámi and other communities across the Arctic are creating self-determined spaces. This research project, led by Indigenous and settler coeditors, is titled after the phrases angirramut in Inuktitut, or ruovttu guvlui in Sámi, which can be translated as “towards home.” To move towards home is to reflect on where northern Indigenous people find home, on what their connections to their land means and on what these relationships could look like into the future. Framed by these three concepts—Home, Land and Future—the book contains essays, artworks, photographs and personal narratives that express Indigenous notions of home, land, kinship, design and memory. The project emphasizes caring for and living on the land as a way of being, and celebrates practices of space-making and place-making that empower Indigenous communities.

Softcover | 352 pages 
17.1 x 24.1 cm (6.75 x 9.5 in.) 
Publication Date: 2024

Catherine Crowston, Josée Drouin-Brisebois, Jonathan Shaughnessy 

With a focus on six Canadian contemporary artists who emphasize material excess, ornamentation and theatricality in their production, Trompé par la nature features spectacular installations that explore hybridity, natural processes and the viewer’s experience.  The catalogue accompanies an exhibition by the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Alberta, and Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art.

Featured artists: David Altmejd, Lee Bul, Bharti Kher, Tricia Middleton, Yinka Shonibare, and Sarah Sze.

Paper | 72 pages
17.5 x 25 cm (6.9 x 9.8 in.) 
Publication Date: 2012

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

Sarah Milroy

Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment offers commentary on a generation of extraordinary women painters, photographers, sculptors, architects and filmmakers from a century ago — pioneers who opened new frontiers for women artists in Canada — as well as works made by their Indigenous female contemporaries working in traditional media, for a cross-country snapshot of female creativity in this dynamic modern moment.

Hardcover | 320 pages
Publication Date: 2021

Lori 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

Lori 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