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Agnes Etherington Art Centre |
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 &endash; wedding and trousseau gowns, mourning apparel, party dresses &endash; 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 in Kingston and introduces a remarkable but little-known collection to the public.
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)
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Art Gallery Mount Saint Vincent University |
Suzanne Swannie: Danish Modern
Ingrid Jenkner, Rachel Gotlieb, Sheila Stevenson and Ron Shuebrook
This retrospective publication documents the weavings and textile installations of Suzanne Swannie. Since the 1970s the Danish-born artist has created functional textiles, tapestries and large architectural installations for private and public environments. Both the woven works and the constructions display the “Danish Modern” principle of repetition of modular units as a means of generating surfaces and structures, with a typical emphasis on rich colour harmonies. Swannie moves adroitly between industry, craft and the art world, gaining from each, apologizing to none. The authors situate Swannie’s work in relation to historical modernism and provide a chronology of the artist’s 40-year career.
Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery (10/2008) 64 pp col. ill. softcover 978-1-894518-44-4 $25.00 ($28.00 U.S. / 20 euros)
Frances Dorsey: Saigon
Leah Garnett, Pat Hickman and Frances Dorsey
Frances Dorsey works in cloth as a way of engaging critically with painting and of bringing global themes within the scope of family life and domestic practices. Much of her work includes photo-derived images of war. Her murals, created from distressed, pieced-together and salvaged cloth, offer a pointed critique of the tradition of history painting in which large paintings on canvas glorify war. Her work is particularly pertinent as she spent much of her childhood in Saigon in the 1950s and, accompanying the main essay, she offers several short personal reminiscences of life in pre-war Viet Nam as seen through the eyes of a child.
Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery (11/2007) 48 pp 11 col. ill. 11 x 7.5 in softcover 978-1-894518-41-3 $15.00 Can./U.S. (12 euros)
Moral Fibre
Meghan Bissonnette & Ingrid Jenkner
Moral Fibre represents the gallery's ongoing commitment to acquiring and exhibiting the textile-based works of contemporary women artists. An essay is accompanied by a detailed entry on each work. Artists discussed include Colette Whiten and Barbara Todd
Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery (2005) 36 pp 6 ill 7 x 11.5 in. 1-894518-27-6 $8.00 Can./U.S. (6 euros)
Shifting Ground: Woven Works by Suzanne Swannie
Sandra Alfoldy
For several years the Halifax-based textile artist has been weaving functional floor coverings for private and public environments. Shifting Ground documents two brilliantly coloured new carpets plus paper and fibre preparatory studies. Concerning her process, Swannie comments that. Sandra Alfoldy teaches at the Nova Scotia Institute of Art & Design.
Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery (2004) 16 pp 6 ill., 6.5 x 9 in 1-894518-22-5 $7.00 Can./U.S. (6 euros)
Meta Textiles: Sewing the Second Skin
Gary Marckle
Art Gallery Mount Saint Vincent University (1996) 23 pp ill. 8x7 in. 1895215579 $6.00
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Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery |
The Grand National: Airborne
Susan Burke & Allan MacKay
Produced in conjunction with the third Grand National exhibition, this publication presents the works of 73 Canadian quilt artists.
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (2005) 56 pp 75 col. ill. 6 x 9 in 0-9738180-0-X $7.00 (6 euros)
The Grand National: Constructions of Canada
Susan Burke & Allan MacKay
A presentation of the second annual invitational exhibition of Canadian quiltmakers, the theme of which was Canada's architectural heritage.
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (2004) 48 pp 70 col. ill. 6 x 9 in no ISBN $5.00 (4 euros)
The Grand National: Reflections of Canada
Susan Burke & Allan MacKay
Publication of the inaugural invitational exhibition of Canadian quilt makers, the theme of which was the Canadian landscape.
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (2003) 60 pp 67 col. ill. 6 x 9 in 0-9731926-1-5 $5.00 (4 euros)
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Textile Museum of Canada |
The Blues: A Resource Guide
Patricia BentleyPublication intended to support the explorations of teachers and learners in cross-disciplinary investigations of cloth. Teachers can integrate resources and activities in the guide into a variety of series. “The Blues” refers to the Museum’s collection of traditional African pieces and contemporary Canadian pieces, both of which use denim in their work.
Textile Museum of Canada (02/2008) 24 pp col. ill. 9 x 7.5 in 978-0-9736656-8-0 $10.00
Close to You: Contemporary Textiles, Intimacy and Popular Culture
Sarah Quinton
An examination of the use of idioms and images from popular culture in the work of contemporary textile artists from Canada and the United States. Participating artists Ai Kijima, Scott Kildall, Allyson Mitchell, Mark Newport and Michèle Provost explore popular myth, comic book heroics and contemporary social and sexual mores through their material practices of knitting, appliqué, embroidery and crochet. Their evident skill and craftsmanship acknowledges traditional craft values even as their cultural and critical sensibilities position them within more recent "neo-craft" practices.
Dalhousie Art Gallery / Textile Museum of Canada (01/2008)
48 pp 17 col. ill. 11.5 x 8 in softcover 978-0-7703-2755-2 $25.00 (20 euros)
Wandering Weavers: Nomadic Traditions of Asia
Natalia Nekrassova
The Textile Museum of Canada holds an wide variety of traditional textiles from Asia and Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey. Through these textiles, the author draws a picture of traditional nomadic life, a life that is gradually vanishing as a result of rapid social and economic changes. The textiles discussed include a broad range of items made by nomadic people of Central and West Asia: Turkmen, Kazakh and Kirghiz, Uzbek, Baluch and Shahsevan, Bakhtiari, Kurds and Qashqai. The rugs, tents, clothing and animal gear show various textile techniques.
Textile Museum of Canada (06/2006) 48 pp 25 col. ill. 10 x 10 in softcover ISBN: 0-9736656-4-5 $19.00 Can/U.S. (15 euros)
Thor Hansen: Crafting a Canadian Style
Rachel Gotlieb
A long overdue review of the work of Canadian textile designer Thor Hansen (1903-1974). Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, the Danish émigré was a popular artist, designer and tireless promoter of the craft movement in Canada. Incorporating the iconography of the Group of Seven and the teachings of William Morris, Hansen's printed textiles and decorative arts were displayed in many executive work environments as well as at public events such as Expo '67. Fifteen colour plates illustrate his original designs. Rachel Gotlieb is the author of Design in Canada (Key Porter, 2004)
Textile Museum of Canada (2005) 34 pp 26 ill (15 col) 9 x 9 in softcover 0-9736656-1-0 $9.95 (18 euros)
Boys With Needles
Anne-Marie Larsen & Robin Metcalfe
Catalogue of an exhibition of four gay male artists who use fibre to express their sexual philosophies and to incite dialogue about the role of queer culture in religion, technology, media and the arts. Two essays elucidate the intentions and ramifications of the artistic production of David Grenier, Neil MacInnis, Thomas Roach and Patrick Traer.
Museum London / Textile Museum of Canada (2003) 16 pp 10x7 in 9 col. ill. 1895800838 $5.95 Can./U.S
Cloth & Clay: Communicating Culture
Roxane Shaughnessy
An exploration of two thousand years of Mexican, Central and South American history through the holdings of the country's most important collections, the Textile Museum of Canada and the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art. Objects and textiles, both ancient and contemporary and rarely seen outside of museum storage facilities, are featured in the interactive, image-rich environment of a CD-Rom. With a curatorial essay, editorial sections by field experts, graphics and an index. Of particular use to the teacher and researcher but accessible to school-children. By having the Virtual Museum of Canada site on the CD Rom, the project is accessible to those without internet-access.
Textile Museum of Canada (2002) CD-Rom with 12 page ill. booklet 5x5.5 in 0973131802 $20.00 (Can./U.S.)
Janet Morton: Wool Work
Sarah Quinton
Through her juxtaposition of the traditional techniques of knitting with contemporary subject matter, Janet Morton demonstrates the flexibility and richness of textiles as a contemporary art making medium. Not restricted by disciplinary limits, her work combines installation, sculpture and performance. Morton's monumental hand knit works have been exhibited throughout the country, notably at The Power Plant and the Art Gallery of Windsor.
Textile Museum of Canada (2001) 17 pp 25 ill. (23 col.) 7x7 in. 0968441165 $10. 00 (Can/U.S.)
Comfort Zones: Textiles in the Canadian Landscape
Marijke Kerkhoven & Sarah Quinton
The fascinating story of the complex relationship of Canadians to their country and its environment is told through textiles. It is a story based not only on the search for personal comfort in a harsh environment but on the search for beauty and solace. Artists range from Albert Lohnes (b. 1894) to Emily Carr and Joyce Wieland. With analyses of individual works and artist biographies.
Textile Museum of Canada (2001) 32 pp 18 ill. (12 col.) 7x7 in. 0968441181 $10. 00 (Can./(U.S.)
On Growth and Form: Textiles and the Engineering of Nature
Philip Beesley, Rachel MacHenry & Evelyn Michalofski
Artists and designers reveal how art, science and nature are intertwined when it comes to the creation and utilization of textile structures. Participants include Kenneth Snelson, the inventor of 'tensegrity', the structural system made famous by Buckminster Fuller, Ann Richards whose textile practice focuses on biomechanics, and Sophie Roët who combines technology with the hand weaving process to develop new and hybrid textiles.
Textile Museum of Canada (2001) 32 pages 16 ill. (10 col.) 7x7 in. 096844119x $10. 00 (Can./U.S.)
Celebrating Virtue: Prestige Costume and Fabrics of Late Imperial China
John. E. Vollme
Textile Museum of Canada (2000) 16 pages 17 col. ill. 10x8 in. 0968441173 $9.95 (Can./U.S.)
Felt: Social History, Technical Processes, Artists' Projects
Kathryn Walter et al.
Textile Museum of Canada (2000) 84 pages 78 ill. 8.5x5.5 in. softcover 0968441149 $15.00 (Can./U.S.)
Stitching Women's Lives: Sujuni and Khatwa from Bihar, India
Dorothy Caldwell & Sky Morrison
Textile Museum of Canada (1999) 35 pages 20 ill. (9 col.) 8.5x8.5 in. softcover 0968441130 $18.00 (Can./U.S.)
Gather Beneath the Banner: Political and Religious Banners of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union 1877-1932
Wendy Harker & Max Allen
Textile Museum of Canada (1999) 63 pages 39 ill. (6 col.) 0968441111 $20.00 (Can./U.S.)
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Oakville Galleries |
Dressing Down
Robin Metcalfe
Eight artists use the social conventions of the costume to address issues of representation. In his essay Metcalfe looks at ways in which artists approach the costume both physically and abstractly. Works by Hamish Buchanan, Teresa Marshall, Ruth Scheuing and Naoko Furene.
Oakville Galleries (1998) 39 p., col. ill., 5.5x8 in / 13x21 cm, 0921027796 $12.00
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