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Blue Republic: Nostalgia for the Present
Mark Kingwell
Blue Republic, a collaborative entity composed of artists Anna Passakas and Radoslaw Kudlinski, produces installations that combine humour, wit and metaphor to stimulate discourse on political ideas and economic issues. This publication documents new artworks assembled from discarded industrial materials and re-fashioned into ready-mades. The intention is to invite reflection on the meta-city and on the notions of utopia and dystopia through a fictional, futuristic lens in order to reveal the desires and fantasies and that drive contemporary society.
MacLaren Art Centre / Koffler Gallery (05/2008) 32 pp col. ill. 8 x 8 in softcover 978-0-920863-80-0 $15.00 ($17.95 U.S. / 12 euros)
September 2007: Broken Promises, Soviet Photography in the Age of Stalin
Michael Johns, J. L. Black et al
Initiated by the acquisition of the Sovfoto Archive - a collection of photographs produced by the Soviet Union during the Second World War and intended for the American press - this publication includes numerous examples from the collection, two scholarly essays and responses from three contemporary artists. While Johns outlines the role of myths and symbols in the development of the Soviet Union, Black describes how the censorship institutionalized by Stalin operated. The artists - Olexander Wlasenko, Sadko Hadzihasanovic and Robin Pacific - examine the repercussions of propaganda on art and the media. J. L. Black is the editor of the Russia and Eurasia Documents Annual series. Michael Johns has published in journals such as Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict and East European Politics and Societies.
MacLaren Art Centre (11/2007) 92 pp 73 ill. (14 col.) 11 x 8 in softcover 978-0-9738829-3-3 $25.00 (20 euros)
Fallacy of the Male Construct: The Sculpture and Painting of Ted Fullerton
Sheila Butler, Denis Longchamps, Robert Enright & Terry McDonald
A prolific artist for over 20 years, Fullerton's work can be characterized as a multi-disciplinary exploration of male identity. Fullerton's approach is shaped by an existentialism fueled by mythological and biblical subjects. As well, the influence of Goya, Munch and Beckman is clear. Two essays, an interview, an artist's statement and a personal reminiscence are accompanied by dozens of colour illustrations of Fullerton's paintings, sculptures and public art.
MacLaren Art Centre (10/2006) 64 pp 58 col. ill. 11 x 8.5 in softcover 0-9738829-2-1 $20.00 Can./U.S. (16 euros)
Tame: Negotiating the Wild in Contemporary Art
Lise Hosein
Hosein reveals the work of nine artists as attempts to restore to the animal a sense of wildness while presenting them in contexts that usually declare them tame. Artists include Marcel Dzama and Diana Thorneycroft.
MacLaren Art Centre (08/2006) 30 pp col. ill. 9 x 6.5 in ISBN: 0-9738829-1-3 $10.00 Can./U.S. (8 euros)
James Lahey: Index
Ihor Holubizky & Mark Kingwell
This elegant, profusely illustrated publication presents one of the most singular careers in the Canadian artistic landscape. James Lahey has been painting between modes of abstraction and representation for over 20 years and has garnered international attention with his immediately recognizable renderings of landscapes, seascapes, clouds and flowers. This publication shows Lahey's ability to move painting in quite another direction. The Index Abstractions are nothing less than an exploration of painting itself. Lahey breaks new ground both materially, with his use of discarded paint and design of new painting tools, and artistically, by distilling the aesthetic practice of his earlier work into powerful studies of proportion, perspective and colour.
Cette publication amplement illustrée nous présente une carrière des plus singulières du paysage artistique canadien. Depuis maintenant une vingtaine d'années, James Lahey peint entre les modes d'abstraction et de représentation. Son style est immédiatement reconnaissable grâce à ses paysages, rivages, nuages et fleurs. Cette publication nous démontre l'habileté qu'a Lahey de dérouter la peinture dans une toute autre direction. Les abstractions d'Index ne sont rien de moins qu'une exploration de la peinture telle quelle. Lahey innove à la fois matériellement, en créant de nouveaux instruments de peinture et en utilisant de la peinture récupérée, et artistiquement, en épurant ses pratiques esthétiques de début de carrière en études approfondies de proportion, de perspective et de couleur.
MacLaren Art Centre (09/2005) 86 pp 67 col. ill. 12.5 x 8.5 in softcover 0-9738829-0-5 $45.00 Can./U.S. (36 euros)
Daniel Ehrenworth: Holocaust Dream
Don Snyder & Priscila Uppal
It has been 60 years since the liberation of Auschwitz and the truth of what happened there is still hard to comprehend. Ehrenworth uses a combination of photography and digital imaging to create a surreal vision that haunts our collective memory. "This project is far less about a death camp but rather about the light that must exist in order to have cast a shadow as dark and vast as Auschwitz."
MacLaren Art Centre (2005) 40 pp 23 ill. 8.5 x 11 softcover,0-9693555-9-9 $20.00 Can/U.S. (16 euros)
Double Take: Charles Meanwell & Frances Cockburn
Stuart Reid & Jessica Morden Bright
Exhibition catalogue on paintings by two artists chosen by two curators for mounting at two galleries. While the exhibitions vary, both serve as an introduction to artists passionate about painting.
Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery / MacLaren Art Centre (08/05) 16 pp col. ill. 8 x 8 in 0-921021-29-2 $8.00 (6 euros)
Lynn Donoghue: The Last Supper
Mary Reid et al
MacLaren Art Centre (2004) 58 pp 32 col. ill. 9.5 x 8.5 in softcover 0-9693555-8-0 $20.00 Can./U.S. (16 euros)
Erica Shuttleworth: Sky & Ground
Mary Reid et al
MacLaren Art Centre (2004) 48 pp 36 col. ill. 11 x 6.5 in softcover 0-9693555-7-2 $20.00 Can./U.S. (16 euros)
Shore/Lines: Responding To Space
Rod Burns et al
MacLaren Art Centre (2003) 64 pp 52 col. ill. 10 x 8 in softcover 0-9693555-6-4 $30.00 Can./ U.S. (24 euros)
Tim Zuck: Paintings and Drawings (Collector's Edition)
Ramsay Cook (ed)
MacLaren Art Centre (1997) 178 pp 78 col. ill. 11 x 10.5
Limited edition. Numbered and signed. Includes original print. hardcover enlosed in casing. 1-55153-917-6 $375.00 Can./U.S. (300 euros)
Bachinski: Still Life, Ten Years
William Moore
MacLAren Art Centre (1992) 28 pp 22 col. ill. 11x 8 in softcover 0-9693555-2-1 $10.00 Can./U.S. (8 euros)
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