Agnes Etherington Art Centre
The World Upside Down
Richard William Hill with Cheryl L’Hirondelle and Joseph Nayhowtow
The world upside down, as visualized by artists, is one in which the symbolic order is turned on its head: male and female, Black and White, Aboriginal and European. This publication of a group exhibition surveys the strategy of symbolic inversion used by contemporary artists, while also providing historical context on Western and Indigenous North American traditions of inversion. As an artistic strategy, inversion illuminates and challenges the visual conventions that police social hierarchies. In each inversion the artist turns a hierarchical dichotomy upside down. In most cases the dichotomy does not survive the experience, ultimately breaking down under the strain of its own absurdity and liberating us, if only for the moment, from its tyranny. The artwork discussed ranges from medieval tapestries to contemporary works by Terrance Houle, Rosalie Favell, T. C. Cannon, Renée Cox, Lori Blondeau, Shelley Niro, Roger Shimomura, Yinka Shonibare and General Idea.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre / Art Gallery of Greater Victoria / Musée d'art de Joliette (01/2009)
176 pp 43 col. ill. 11 x 7.5 in hardcover 978-1-894773-28-7 $29.99 Can $32.00 U.S. (20 euros)
The Bader Collection: Dutch and Flemish Paintings
David de Witt
The Bader Collection stands among the world's greatest private collections of Dutch and Flemish paintings from the Baroque era. For the past 40 years Dr. Alfred Bader of Milwaukee has been donating works to the Agnes Etherington Art Centre of his Canadian alma mater, Queen's University. This extraordinary collection demonstrates a rich interplay of interests and insights, at the same time drawing back the curtain on the motivations and principles behind these remarkable acquisitions, whose history dates back to 1950. This scholarly publication presents 200 paintings that form the collection's focus, with work by Rembrandt, Jan Lievens, Willem Drost, Jacob van Ruisdael, Philips Koninck and other luminaries. Exhaustively researched, each richly illustrated entry presents a painting in detail. An introductory essay explores the life of this remarkable collector and the motivations that have driven his pursuit of the art of the Dutch Golden Age with such passion and insight. David de Witt is a 17th century Dutch specialist and Bader Curator of European Art at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre. He is the author of Jan Van Noordt: Painter of History and Portraits in Amsterdam (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Agnes Etherington Art Centre (03/2008) 342 pp 455 ill (170 col.) 12 x 9 in. hardcover 978-1-55339-094-7 $72.00 Can. ($79.95 U.S. / 64 euros)
Harun Farocki: "One image doesn't take the place of the previous one"
Harun Farocki, Rembert Hüser, Michèle Thériault, Volker Pantenburg & David Tomas
The first North American publication devoted to the installation work of the German filmmaker. Farocki's filmic montages combine documentary visuals with spoken commentary to create incisive investigations of the image and its production. His artistic process and his occupation of the museum space are some of the issues addressed. Harun Farocki has directed numerous feature films and documentaries and has participated in the 2005 Carnegie International and Documenta XII. In English and French.
Leonrd & Bina Ellen Art Gallery / Agnes Etherington Art Centre (10/2008)
220 pp col. Ill. 10.5 x 7.5 in softcover 978-2-920394-75-9 $35.00 Can. ($39.95 U.S./ 28 euros)
Beyond the Silhouette: Fashion and the Women of Historic Kingston
M. Elaine MacKay
The city of Kingston is celebrated as one of the founding settlements of Canada. Over the generations in the attics of its fine old limestone houses were stored a treasure trove of women's garments - wedding and trousseau gowns, mourning apparel, party dresses - preserved today as the Queen's University Collection of Canadian Dress. Costume specialist M. Elaine MacKay provides an in-depth study of 20 garments dating from 1815 to the 1930s which opens a window onto the history of women and introduces a remarkable but little-known collection to the public. Beautifully illustrated with professional comments regarding all forms of stitching, sewing, patterns, and needle types of the era. An introductory essay outlines the historical context for the growth of the fashion industry and of the middle class in 18th and 19th century Canada.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre (07/2007) 82 pp 58 ill. 11 x 8 in softcover 978-1-55339-093-0 $29.95 Can./U.S. (24 euros)
Etherington House: Building a Legacy
Patricia Sullivan
This well-illustrated book tells the story of Agnes Etherington and her home's transformation into a public art gallery, and provides information on selected decorative arts on view in Etherington House. Among the artists discussed are Laura Knight, Grant Macdonald and Agnes Etherington herself.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre (05/2007) 39 pp 30 ill. (24 col.) 8.5 x 7 in softcover 978-1-55339-091-6 $11.95 Can./U.S. (10 euros)
Lyla Rye: Hopscotch
Kenneth Hayes
Hopscotch is an installation mixing digital video with space-transforming grid-lines inscribed across the gallery floor and walls, an aesthetically charged musing on habitation. Hayes, an architectural historian, sets the work in the context of the artist's long-standing engagement with architectural space.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre (12/2007) 38 pp 9 ill (6 col.) 7 x 5 in hardcover 978-1-55339-092-3 $12.00 Can./U.S. (10 euros)
Telling Stories, Secret Lives
Jan Allen, Steven Matijcio et al
Inspired by an upsurge in the use of narrative in contemporary art, this publication reconsiders installation and sculptural works by taking into account their narrative potential and by making tangible the imaginative trajectories they embody. To accomplish this, seven writers respond to works by seven artists. Through prose and poetry they take approaches ranging from counterpoint to empathetic engagement with their subject work. This inventive publication presents each text adjacent to its its subject image, an essay, as well as catalogue entries on each of the works with summary texts, artists' statements and bibliographical notes. Featured artists are Dorothy Cameron, Ian Carr-Harris, Robin Collyer, Vera Frenkel, Myfanwy MacLeod, Sandra Meigs and Terry Pfliger.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre (03/2007) 54 pp 7 col. ill. 8 x 6 in softcover 978-1-55339-088-6 $18.00 Can. US. (14 euros)
Neutrinos They Are Very Small
Jan Allen, Corinna Ghaznavi & Allison Morehead
Taking its title from a poem by John Updike, this publication and DVD pay homage to experimentation and the difficulty of representing and recording the mysteries of quantum mechanics. Three artists - Gordon Hicks, Rebecca Diederichs and Sally MacKay - produced works of art after visiting the internationally renowned underground research facility of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory. The works engage with scientific method and emerging theories of subatomic physics through hands-on participatory labs and displays of individually and collectively produced art. The essays discuss the relationship between artistic and scientific processes, identifying common ground in their rule-bound productive play between hypotheses and always provisional proofs. Produced with the Art Gallery of Sudbury.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre (2006) 64 pp 48 ill (37 col.) 9 x 9 in softcover (with DVD) 978-1-55339-089-3 $22.95 Can./U.S. (18 euros)
"An Artist After All": Daniel Fowler in Canada
Dorothy M. Farr
The rural landscapes of watercolourist Daniel Fowler (1810 -1894) are among the most evocative images of nineteenth-century Canada. Direct and unsentimental, they capture the timeless cycle of life on the land. Emigrating from England, Fowler turned to painting after years of farming and soon established himself among Canada's first generation of professional artists. He also reflected upon his life and art in journals, an autobiography, and several short articles and stories. Colour plates, archival photographs and writings by the artist bear witness to the isolated life of a pioneer farmer and to the cultural aspirations on new Canadians in the country's formative years.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre (09/2006) 72 pp 20 col. ill. 12 x 10 in softcover 1-55339-090-3 $20.00 (16 euros)
Sarindar Dhaliwal: Record Keeping
Sunil Gupta, Richard Fung, Janice Cheddie et al
Sarindar Dhaliwal was born in India, educated in England and has an established artistic practice in Canada. This internationally produced publication presents 15 years of an œuvre born from a concern with the complex cultural background of Diasporic women who do not sit comfortably in their host societies and who question assumptions made about them. The work combines storytelling, painting and textile installations with print, media and video, resulting in lush and exotic pieces. Record Keeping was produced in collaboration with two of England's leading art organizations, the John Hansard Gallery and the Organization for the Visual Arts.
Agnes Etherinton Art Centre (2205) 48 pp 26 col. ill. 7 x 8.5 in softcover 1-899127-05-4 $23.00 (18 euros)
Erik Edson: Fable
Jan Allen & Catherine Osborne
The latest multi-media installation of award-winning printmaker Erik Edson stages incongruous elements from Baroque painting and a grizzly bear, to planetary movement and cheesy rec-room decor. In her essay, Catherine Osborne examines the artistís method in the context of his wider practice and his engagement with the Wild Kingdom as subject. Jan Allen reads fable as a witty experiential musing on the acculturation of nature.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre (2004) 32 pp 17 col. ill. 6 x 7.5 in softcover 1-55339-086-5 $16.00 (14 euros)
Ah, Wilderness! Resort Architecture in the Thousand Islands
Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey & Dorothy Farr
The Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence River is home to some of the world's most spectacular summer retreats. From the late 19th century on, industrialists from both Ontario and New York State built extravagant homes in order to get away from what was perceived as the sullying effects of the city. This richly illustrated volume examines the architects, the owners and the architectural and social histories they embody. Documentation of more than twenty individual residences built from the 1880s to the mid 1950s enable us to follow the growth of modern resort culture. Beautifully illustrated with archival photographs, blueprints and memorabilia.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre (2004) 128 pp 110 ill (72 col.) 10 x 8.5 in softcover 0-88911-543-5 $29.95 (23 euros)
Machine Life
Jan Allen, Ihor Holubizky & Caroline Seck Langill
Essays trace the history of and current tendencies in robotic and interactive art through the work of Norman White and the artists he has taught and influenced over the past quarter century. The accompanying CD Rom highlights ten individual works. Produced in collaboration with the Koffler Gallery. Previously announced.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre (2004) 63 pp 26 ill (12 col) 8 x 7 in softcover 0-88911-918-x $20.00 Can,/U.S. (16 euros)
Gary Kibbins: Grammar Horses
Jan Allen & Gary Kibbins
Known for the absurdist humour, political acuity and intellectual depth of his work in film and video, Kibbins' multi-media installation explores the failure of syntax to guarantee meaning through a strategy the artist describes as atheistic evangelicalism. Kibbins mingles grammar, religiosity and tourism in audio, video and text-based components. Also included is Kibbins' concrete poetry-riff on the exhibition theme.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre (2003) 82 pp 18 ill. 9.5 x 6.5 in softcover 0-88911-916-3 $15.00 (12 euros)
Connected: Contemporary Art in Kingston
Jan Allen (ed)
Co-produced with Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, this publication documents an innovative approach to a group exhibition in which artistic affinity functions as curatorial rationale. Through a process of cross-nomination, 18 artists selected other artists' works, each commenting upon the other. The relationship between artists and the issues that shape a regional art scene are explored throughout the essay and texts.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre (2003) 64 pp 30 ill (25 col) 10x8 in 0889119120 softcover $20.00 Can./U.S. (14 euros)
A Gift of Genius: A Rembrandt for Kingston
David de Witt & Angela RobertsRembrandt's Head of an Old Man in a Cap, recently donated to the Centre is a rare firmly-attributed Rembrandt in a Canadian museum. With an illustrated essay.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre (2003) 6 pp. col. ill. 11 x 7.5 in 0-88911-904-X $5.00 (4 euros)
Museopathy
Jan Allen, Jim Drobnick & Jennifer Fisher
Intended to expand the discourse on the role of the museum, these essays interrogate conventions of display and re-imagine how artifacts are exhibited and history is represented. Based on what may be the largest on-site event ever to be held in Canada, the publication explores fourteen site-specific installations and performances that intervened into museums devoted to the widest possible range of historical and social phenomena. Parings of artists with museums were "brilliantly made" (Nancy Tousley, Canadian Art) with, among others, Brian Jurgen in the Correctional Services of Canada Museum, Jamelie Hassan in the Museum of Health Care, Fastürms in the Museum of Geology and Mineralogy, and Joyce Wieland's 1967 video Sailboat projected on board the Museum Ship Alexander Henry. Produced in association with DisplayCult
Agnes Etherington Art Centre (2002) 112 pp col. ill. 9x7 in. softcover 0889119082 $22.00 (Can./U.S.)
Better Worlds: Activist and Utopian Projects by Artists
Jan Allen & Laura U. Marks
An examination of the relationship between individual and collective wills as they navigate the shifting matrices of economy and state. In works ranging from concrete, action-oriented proposals to poetic critique, artists seek to question or imaginatively re-configure assumed goals and power relationships. Better Worlds touches on the politics of urban space and homelessness, alternates in education, modes of dissent, the allure of corporate hegemony, class struggle and technological change, child poverty and globalization. Participants include Eleanor Bond, Luis Jacob and Mindy Yan Miller.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre (2002) 56 pp 9.5x8 in ill softcover 0889119120 $16.00 (Can./U.S.)
Who Means What: Brent Roe, Paintings 1992-2001
John Armstrong
Roe's paintings combine gestural cursive lines with encapsulated words and phrases. Armstrong explores the subtle manipulation of visual conventions through the textual aspects as well as in its nods to popular culture. Brent Roe has exhibited nationally, most notably at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery. With an interview.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre (2001) 24 pages, 18 ill. (11 col.) 9x8 in. 0889119066 $8.00
Laurel Woodcock: Take Me, I'm Yours
Jan Allen & Paul Kelley
Describing her work with video, DVD, and audio CD as "sentimental conceptualism", Laurel Woodcock has produced an oeuvre that is theoretically informed, subtly subversive and much more trenchant than may initially appear. In his essay on the video loop operetta, Kelley offers a lucid analysis of the work's capacity to generate a space of imaginative latitude through the interaction of Culture and Nature. Allen's thorough analysis of the Lured series brings to the surface a central concern in much of Woodcock's work: the estrangement of girls and women and the perennial issue of female self-scrutiny. Mimicking, 40s Hollywood melodrama and re-inventing Hitchcockian motifs from films like Marnie, Woodcock gives us cinematic characters who resist interpretation, manipulate perception and confuse assertion with dysfunction. The enclosed CD presents two works in the series, Lured I and Lured II.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre (2001) 47 pages 28 col. ill. 10x6.5 in. 0889118272 softcover with CD-Rom $16.00
Gretchen Sankey: Some of the Parts
Jan Allen
Allen's essay examines the use of narrative in the art of the Toronto-based painter. Over the past decade her work has moved from the interrogation of dominant psycho-social narratives to an elaboration of fictive biography. Gretchen Stankey teaches at the Ontario College of Art.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre (2000) 19 p., 10 ill., 10x8 in. 0889117543 $7.50
Jayce Salloum
Jim Drobnick & Jennifer Fisher
Salloum captures the aesthetic richness of the urban fabric in photographs taken on the streets of New York, Montreal, Vancouver, Los Angeles and Paris. A critical essay examines the oeuvre as well as the unusual jazz-like installation format deployed in its presentation. Salloum contributes an image/text project.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre. (1999) 48 p., 57 ill. (47 col.), 11x8 in 0889117527 $12.00
Crime and Punishment
Jennifer Rudder
Original essay exploring the representation of the criminal - in the crime scene or in the physiognomy of the criminal - as found in the work of four artists: Sheila Ayearst, Jonathan Eeles, Angela Grossman and Louise Noguchi.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre. (1999) 32 p., 11x9 in 19 ill.(4 col.), 1889117500 $12.00
Flaming Creatures: New Tendencies in Canadian Video.
Gary Kibbins.
Through a presentation of 17 tapes by 15 artists, this volume provides an overview of video-making in Canada. Includes discussion of, among others, Steve Reinke, Cathy Sisler and Nelson Henricks.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre (1997) 19 p., 19 ill., 10x7 in 0889117489 $6.00
Tapes that Think: Video Works by Steve Reinke, Tran T. Kim-Trang, Rodney Werden
Gary Gibbons
Agnes Etherington Art Centre. (1996) 6 p., ill., 10x5.5 in 0889117020 $2.00
Edifice
Jan Allen
Recent work by Kingston area artists investigating systems of understanding. Includes: May Chan, Dave Gordon, Jocelyn Purdie, Maureen Sheridan, Bill Roff, and Scott Wallis.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre. (1997) 24 p, ill., 0889117489 $6.00
Germaine Koh: Persona
Jan Allen
Three projects that point to our paradoxical capacity to generate a sense of intimacy with a perfect stranger. Two of the pieces are photo-based and the third involved insertions in the Personal Notices section of Kingston's daily newspaper
Agnes Etherington Art Centre. (1997) 28 p., ill. 0889117446 $7.00
Of Mudlarkers and Measurers
S. Dhaliwal
Works by Canadian and international artists that entail obsessive exploration of the materials and processes of daily life. Includes: Antoni Abad (Barcelona), Maria Fernanda Cardoso (San Francisco), Gwen MacGregor (Toronto), Lyndal Osborne (Edmonton) and Regina Silveira (Sao Paulo).
Agnes Etherington Art Centre. (1996) 23 p., ill., 088911742x $6.00
Rise and Fall: John Dickson, Laurie Walker.
Jan Allen (et al)
Essays on the work of the two Canadian sculptors.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre. (1996) 44 p., ill., 11x8.5 in 0889117063 $15.00 (hb)
Fertile Ground
Jan Allen
Presentation of works in various media devoted to the theme of female fertility. Artists include Karen Spencer and Leslie Reid.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre. (1996) 24 p., ill., 10x8 in 0889117365 $7.50
Sophie Bellissent: In the Flesh
Jan Allen
Agnes Etherington Art Centre. (1996) 6 p., ill., 11x8.5 in 0889117403 $2.00
Joyce Wieland: Twilight Record of Romantic Love (Out of print)
Jan Allen.
One of the last presentations of Canada's great multidisciplinary artist. A collection of line drawings devoted to love.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre. (1995) 32 p., 25 ill., 8.5x8.5 in 0889116687 $7.00
RX: Taking Our Medecine
Jan Allen, Kim Sawchuck
The authors situtate the work of five Canadian and two British artists within the context of the current shift toward a more critical stance vis-a-vis the medical system.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre. (1995) 47 p., ill., 10x7.5 in 0889116989 $8.00
The Female Imaginary
Jan Allen
The work of seven feminist artists working in a variety of disciplines with an accent on painting and photo-based art.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre. (1994). 44 p., ill., 11x9 in 08891160097 $9.00
Tom Dean: Drawings 1985-1990. Agnes Etherington Art Centre. (1990) 20 p., ill., 9x6 in 0889115022 $10.00
Pictorial Incidents The Photography of William Gordon Shields
Michael Bell
A native of Hamilton Ontario, Shields moved to New York in the early 1900s and became involved with the nascent photographic scene, whose principle voice at that time was Alfred Stieglitz. Stieglitz's gallery Photo-Secession and his periodical Camera Work were the focal point of photographic scene but there was dissension within the ranks. A group known as the Pictorialists (of whom Shields was one) rejected Stieglitz's insistence on hard-edged realism, seeking instead to identify the infant art with poetry, painting and sculpture.
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Agnes Etherington Art Centre. 80 pages 58 ill. 10x6.5 in. 0889115044 softcover $12.00
A. A. Chesterfield Ungava Portraits 1902-04
William C. James
Photographic portraits of Cree and Inuit taken at the turn of the century by a photographer who lived among them. A clerk with the Hudson's Bay Company, Chesterfield moved to Great Whale River in 1902 where he took more then 200 photographs. His insistence on a straightforward mode of portraiture gives the work an uncommon power, suggesting an almost documentary intent. Chesterfield's own writings confirms his concern at finding these Northern peoples in a state of economic and cultural deprivation. His relentless depiction of the bleakness of poverty with no trace of sentimentality gives these portraits political connotations, reminding us of the later work of Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre. 47 pages 20 ill. (18 plates) 11.5x8.5 in. 0889113734 softcover $10.00
Heritage Quilt Collection
Ruth McKendry & Dorothy Farr
An historical and cultural presentation of Eastern Ontario quilts from the early 19th century to today. McKendry relates the origins of the pioneer quilt (the new climate and the hard economic times faced by immigrants) and the occasions for its creation (a female child was expected to make the twelve quilts she would need as a bride). In response to contemporary feminism, quiltmaking has been redefined as an almost underground aesthetic movement, one that developed outside of the male-dominated realm of recognized "fine arts". Each of the 44 full-page colour illustrations is accompanied by an analysis of the history, material and purpose of each quilt..
Agnes Etherington Art Centre. 63 pages 44 col. ill. 8.5x10 in. 0889115397 softcover $12.00
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