Inuit Art in the 1970's / L'Art Inuit Actuel, 1970-79 by Marie Routledge. 1979 paperback published by the Agnes Etherington Art Centre. Text in English and French.

Inuit Art in the 1970's / L'Art Inuit Actuel, 1970-79

Marie Routledge

Agnes Etherington Art Centre

Wisdom, knowledge & magic: The image of the scholar in seventeenth-century Dutch art

Volker Manuth

J Douglas Stewart

Inspired by a booklet published by Radio Shack, Rogalsky's audio installation takes the form of a tangle of circuit-boards and sensors registering minute vibrations of the gallery floor. The readings are processed into ambient sound. The installation touches on our relationship with the environment, including the widening band of surveillance. DVD and essays enclosed in casing.

Matt Rogalsky: When he was in high school in Texas, Eric Ryan Mims used a similar arrangement to detect underground nuclear tests in Nevada

Arts & Photography

Jan Allen

History & Criticism

Lyla Rye: Hopscotch

Hayes, Kenneth

Information-gathering systems increasingly affect our lives, tracking our movement and consumer preferences. Such sorting daemons subtly reinforce existing streams of influence and create new ones. This publication presents the work of sixteen artists who address the social, psychological, political and aesthetic dimensions of surveillance systems. Writings on the artists and their works are accompanied by critical essays on the culture of surveillance, social sorting, data-aesthetics and our evolving understandings of and participation in surveillance regimes. Participating artists include Antonia Hirsch, Tran T. Kim-Trang, Germaine Koh and Ian Verchere, Michael Lewis, Walid Raad, David Rokeby and Cheryl Sourkes.

Sorting Daemons: Art, Surveillance Regimes and Social Control

Kirsty Robertson

Sarah E.K. Smith

In 1785, the British painter Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797) exhibited a large painting representing his country's defense of the Rock of Gibraltar against Spanish attack in 1782. A specialist in dramatic light effects, Wright hoped his great battle picture would cap his career, and although it was purchased for a substantial sum at the time, it subsequently slipped from view and was considered lost by specialists in the field. In 2001, the Art Centre acquired a painting representing the same subject which has since been the subject of debate: was this picture, now in poor condition, a copy of Wright's lost painting, a work by one of his contemporaries, or in fact Wright's missing masterpiece? This publication presents the results of eight years of research by specialists in conservation, archival and documentary science and demonstrates the painting's authenticity and returns Wright's work into the canon of British 18th century art history. Published with the support of The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and of Alfred and Isabel Bader.

Lost and Found: Wright of Derby's View of Gibraltar

DeWitt, David

Bonehill, Janet

Brooke, Janet M.

Klempan, Barbara

Howie Tsui's extraordinary Friendly Fire exhibition blends the history of medicine with a haunting, unruly commemoration of the War of 1812 in this collaborative presentation produced with the Museum of Health Care at Kingston. Three essays explore Tsui's practice and the aspects of the War illuminated by his installations, including the psychological conditions of war, factitious diseases and self-injury, counter-narratives of conflict, ethno-political strife, medical theories and practices of the period, the uneasy relations between the British and their aboriginal allies, and carnivalesque representations of war in popular culture. Howie Tsui s work is included in the group exhibition Phantoms of Asia currently showing at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.

Howie Tsui: Friendly Fire

Allen, Jan

Robertson, Paul

Loft, Steven

For many decades the Agnes Etherington Art Centre has been receiving European paintings from the Bader Collection from a wide range of periods and schools, from the German Renaissance to the Italian Rococo. The core of the collection is Dutch and Flemish art, in particular paintings by the Dutch Baroque genius Rembrandt van Rijn and his circle of talented pupils, friends and followers. These works were fully published in the publication of 2008. This new book presents the substantial group of over fifty remarkable paintings from other European Schools, notably Italy, Germany, France and England. A breathtaking early El Greco, a classic Dosso Dossi, an evocative late Luca Giordano, a truly surprising Georg Pencz, as well as a signal masterpiece by the Milanese master Andrea Lanzani highlight the quality and breadth of this part of the collection. Many works make their public debut here, with new findings on authorship, meaning, and other intriguing questions. They are joined by several major recent Netherlandish acquisitions including a late still life by the renowned Willem Kalf. Artists include El Greco, Dosso Dossi, Luca Giordano, Georg Pencz, Andrea Lanzani, Willem Kalf, Adriaen van Ostade, Isack de Jouderville, Jacques-André-Joseph Aved and Jean Baptiste Henri Deshays.

The Bader Collection: European Paintings

De Witt, David

Published in commemoration of the 350th anniversary of the death of Rembrandt van Rijn, this thoroughly illustrated publication documents the artist's early career, a period marked by daring experimentation that culminated in a signature pictorial vocabulary. After years of refining his skill, his work around this time displays the powerful chiaroscuro, gestural lucidity, and rigorous evocation of materiality that predict his finest achievements in his later Amsterdam period. Contextualized by work from his colleagues and students, Rembrandt emerges as a defining figure of the Leiden market. Featuring the strengths of The Bader Collection, such as Rembrandt's Head of an Old Man in a Cap and Jan Lievensz's Head of an Old Woman in Profile, as well as works from collections of Dutch art across Canada, the exhibition catalogue presents a focused view of the trademark subjects and styles that made the artist's reputation. Essays celebrate the artistic import, savvy self-promotion and stylistic identity that Rembrandt cultivated and modelled to those in his circle.

Leiden circa 1630: Rembrandt Emerges

Piet Bakker

Janet M. Brooke

Jacquelyn N. Coutré

Stephanie S. Dickey

Accompanying the Brooklyn-based artist's solo museum exhibition, this first monograph reveals an artistic practice that is conceptually rich and imbued with a lush sense of history. Engaging with various media, with works in video, photography and sculpture, the artist riffs on the traditions of Modernism and Conceptualism to interrogate time and materiality. In her investigation of systems and forms of knowledge Shirreff's work is situated in the lineage of figures such as Robert Smithson and Thomas Struth. Produced by three public galleries, this illustrated publication accompanies an exhibition featuring works produced since 2009 that will travel across the country throughout the year. Erin Shirreff's work has been exhibited at MoMA PS1, Metropolitan Museum of Art, White Cube and the Power Plant. Two essays and an interview with the artist.

Erin Shirreff

Dyck, Sandra

Papararo, Jennifer

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