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Public Art in Vancouver

Author : John Steil,Aileen Stalker
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 1894898796

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Featuring more than 500 public art installations, this is the first comprehensive guidebook to explore Vancouver's urban treasures. The character of a city is revealed by the public art that neighborhoods and residents collectively place on streets and walls and in their public spaces. As a city known internationally for its breathtaking cityscapes and mountain backdrop, Vancouver has much to offer visually including the diverse and thriving public art in the city's neighborhoods. Engaging color photos and detailed descriptions that focus on the historical and cultural context of each art piece, its place in modern art and the artist who created it allow for a greater understanding of these urban treasures. Easy-to follow maps take readers to communities and destinations such as False Creek, Chinatown, the West End, Downtown, East Vancouver, VanDusen Garden, Stanley Park and the University of British Columbia. Tour the better known and the unknown art installations that are made from every possible media and include monuments, paintings, murals, tapestries, figures, First Nations art, relics, busts, fountains, gateways, mosaics, sculptures and reliefs.

People Among the People

Author : Robert D. Watt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 1773270427

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This beautifully designed book is the first to explore Susan Point's publicly commissioned artworks from coast to coast Susan Point's unique artworks have been credited with almost single-handedly reviving the traditional Coast Salish art style. Once nearly lost to the effects of colonization, the crescents, wedges, and human and animal forms characteristic of the art of First Nations peoples living around the Salish Sea can now be seen around the world, reinvigorated with modern materials and techniques, in her serigraphs and public art installations - and in the works of a new generation of artists that she's inspired.People Among the People beautifully displays the breadth of Susan Point's public art, from cast-iron manhole covers to massive carved cedar spindle whorls, installed in locations from Vancouver to Zurich. Through extensive interviews and access to her archives, Robert D. Watt tells the story of each piece, whether it's the evolution from sketch to carving to casting, or the significance of the images and symbolism, which is informed by surviving traditional Salish works Point has studied and the Oral Traditions of her Musqueam family and elders. In her long quest to re-establish a Coast Salish footprint in Southwest British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest of the US, Point has received many honours, including the Order of Canada and the Audain Lifetime Achievement Award. This gorgeous and illuminating book makes it clear they are all richly deserved.

Public Art in Canada

Author : Annie Gérin,James S. McLean
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781442697089

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Arguably, public art is experienced daily by more people than most offerings in galleries, yet our notion of what constitutes public art is surprisingly limited. Public Art in Canada broadens the critical discussion by exploring public art's varied means of engaging with public space and the public sphere. Annie Gérin and James S. McLean have assembled contributions from new and established Canadian scholars, curators, and artists. Each contributor enlivens our understanding of public art as a practice and its place in the social and aesthetic formation of which it is a part. As a result, the book provides an overview of the current debates in the field of public art that are informed by the theories and critical literature of art history, communication studies, cultural studies, sociology, and urban studies. The rigorous essays and original works of art collected in this volume present a compelling demonstration of the strategies, aesthetic and otherwise, used by artists to elicit intellectual, sensual, or emotional responses that can only be obtained through artistic practices in public places. Public Art in Canada is a major contribution to the study of Canadian art and culture.

Susan Point

Author : Grant Arnold,Ian Thom
Publisher : Black Dog Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 1911164260

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Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Vancouver Art gallery from February 18 to 28 May 2017.

Stan Douglas: Abbott and Cordova, 7 August 1971

Author : Stan Douglas
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781551524146

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A book on world-renowned artist Douglas’s monumental photo installation about the 1971 Gastown Riot in Vancouver.

Ken Foster's Vancouver

Author : Sean Nosek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09
Category : Artists
ISBN : 1926991915

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Sean Nosek takes us deep inside a world of addiction, poverty, and homelessness to reveal the fascinating life and art of Ken Foster, one of the countrys most prolific and exciting artists. Set on the edge of the infamous Downtown Eastside, Fosters story is both compelling and heart-wrenching. The crown jewel, of course, is the collection of art showing Fosters talent and evolution as an artist, with many never-before-seen pieces.

Public Art Encounters

Author : Martin Zebracki,Joni M. Palmer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317073833

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Public art is produced and ‘lived’ within multiple, interlaced and contested political, economic, social and cultural-symbolic spheres. This lively collection is a mix of academic and practice-based writings that scrutinise conventional claims on the inclusiveness of public art practice. Contributions examine how various social differences, across class, ethnicity, age, gender, religion, ability and literacy, shape encounters with public art within the ambits of the design, regeneration and everyday experiences of public spaces. The chapters richly draw on case studies from the Global North and South, providing comprehensive insights into the experiences of encountering public art via a variety of scales and realms. This book advances critical insights of how socially practised public arts articulate and cultivate geographies of social difference through the themes of power (the politics of encountering), affect (the embodied ways of encountering), and diversity (the inclusiveness of encountering). It will appeal to scholars, students and practitioners of cultural geography, the visual arts, urban studies, political studies and anthropology.

MashUp

Author : Vancouver Art Gallery
Publisher : Black Dog Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 191043339X

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MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture traces the inexorable rise of collage, montage, sampling and the cut-up. Tracing its roots from the multiple-perspectives, montages and readymades of Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters and Hannah Hoch, to the present with its postmodern network culture, where remixing and co-production are the norm and the New Aesthetic seeks to harmonise the now-everyday crossover of the digital and the actual. The book addresses the development of détournement and deconstruction in art, architecture, music and society. Each chapter is a detailed, inclusive look at a cross-section of the main artists and thinkers that have embraced and developed all forms of 'mashup' culture, since its inception in the late nineteenth century with Braque and Picasso's experiments into perspective. MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture finds parallels between the works of luminaries such as Jean-Luc Godard, Joseph Cornell, Elizabeth Price, Joyce Wieland and Jeff Wall, tracing the lasting impact of such seemingly disparate cultural phenomena as voguing, hacking and the use of audio and film as a kind of a globally available, open source language in vidding, hip hop and dub, and in art that deals with the mass proliferation and dissemination of images and knowledge brought on by digital technologies. MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture situates the work of Andy Warhol, Richard Hamilton and Guy Debord alongside the likes of Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau, Superstudio, Brian Eno and Cory Arcangel, and more generally within a culture where the new is necessarily re-made and re-modelled, and quotation and re-appropriation are an integral part of the way we talk about it. Published in collaboration with the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Jerry Pethick's Time Top Project

Author : Jerry Pethick,Concord Pacific Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : Public sculpture, Canadian
ISBN : 0978350308

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Gio Swaby

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780847871735

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Accompanied by a traveling exhibition, this book on the Bahamian artist’s textile portraits serves as a love letter to Black women: their style, strength, vulnerabilities, and beauty. This debut of the 29-year-old Bahamian-born artist aims to redefine the often-politicized Black body, with portraits made in a range of textile-based techniques, such as embroidery and appliqué, celebrating Black women. Gio Swaby’s intimate portraits are unique, highly personal figurative works made from an array of colorful fabrics and intricate, freehand lines of thread on canvas that explore the intersections of Blackness and womanhood. Illustrated with 80 works in full color that span from 2017 to 2021, this is the first book on this contemporary feminist artist who is a rising star in the world of textiles and portraiture. According to Swaby, “I wanted to create a space where we could see ourselves reflected in a moment of joy, celebrated without expectations, without connected stereotypes.” Writers and scholars with multiple points of view take on Swaby’s work and delve into her place within contemporary Black art.

Douglas Coupland

Author : Daina Augaitis
Publisher : Black Dog Pub Limited
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Art
ISBN : 1908966521

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Includes chronology and writer's biographical notes.

Public Art -- Private Views

Author : Michael John Secretan Cox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art and society
ISBN : OCLC:918259052

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The project is a personal exploration of public art in Vancouver consisting of an essay and a DVD comprising three documentaries. Each episode refers to a different question in the paper: What is public art? What is its relationship to where it is situated? What is the process by which it is commissioned in a civic public art program? Artists, curators, and bureaucrats involved in the commission and installation of public art in Vancouver are interviewed; one project's construction is followed to completion. Public art, whether civic or private-sector funded, can be defined as much by its relationship to a site as by its various categorizations, e.g. place-specific, site-specific. Offering local identity, opportunities for dialogue, and creative interpretations of a city's history and culture, Vancouver's public art contends with several challenges, e.g. available land, the value placed on views. Temporary installations and ephemeral art events can resolve some contentious issues.

Art in Public Places

Author : Judith Mastai,Vancouver Art Gallery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Public art
ISBN : 1895442095

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Topographies

Author : Grant Arnold,Monika Gagnon,Doreen Jensen,Vancouver Art Gallery
Publisher : Douglas &McIntyre
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015056288338

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Lonely Planet Vancouver & Victoria

Author : John Lee,Brendan Sainsbury
Publisher : Lonely Planet
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781837580934

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Lonely Planet’s Vancouver & Victoria is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the region has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Shop for vintage shoes in quirky Gastown, hit the powdered slopes of Grouse Mountain and sample an Indian Pale Ale in a hidden microbrewery - all with your trusted travel companion. Inside Lonely Planet’s Vancouver & Victoria Travel Guide: What’s NEW in this edition? Up-to-date information - all businesses were rechecked before publication to ensure they are still open after 2020’s COVID-19 outbreak NEW top experiences feature - a visually inspiring collection of Vancouver and Victoria’s best experiences and where to have them What's NEW feature taps into cultural trends and helps you find fresh ideas and cool new areas NEW Accommodations feature gathers all the information you need to plan your accommodation Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Eating & drinking in Vancouver and Victoria - we reveal the dishes and drinks you have to try Color maps and images throughout Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sightseeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, people, music, landscapes, wildlife, politics Over 40 maps Covers West End, Gastown, Chinatown, Granville Island, Whistler, Victoria, the Southern Gulf Islands, and more The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet’s Vancouver & Victoria, our most comprehensive guide to the region, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less travelled. Visiting Vancouver for a week or less? Lonely Planet’s Pocket Vancouver guide is a handy-sized guide focused on the city’s can’t-miss experiences. About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveler since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and phrasebooks for 120 languages, and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travelers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, videos, 14 languages, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more, enabling you to explore every day. 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' – New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveler's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' – Fairfax Media (Australia)