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Light, Colour, and Grace: The Romeo Paintings Collection Description: 9 x 11 inches 64 pages in length, softcover, colour images Price: $25.00 (+ GST)	Continuing the Gallery’s commitment to share with its audiences significant private collections in the surrounding area, Light, Colour, and Grace features thirty-one European paintings from the local collection of Dr. Michael Romeo and his wife, Mary Romeo. Focusing primarily on European art of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the exhibition includes the work of diverse painters of French, British, German, Dutch, Italian, and other nationalities, ranging from landscapes, townscapes, and seascapes to rural and urban genre scenes. Written by Dr. Patrick Shaw Cable, AGH Acting Chief Curator / Curator of European Art.
The Kimono of the Geisha-Diva Ichimaru Description: 7 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches 80 pages, smyth-sewn casebound book (with jacket), 20 full-color photographs of kimono, 12 photographs of Ichimaru, and 7 color woodblock prints and paintings Price: $29.00 (+ GST)	With her perfect balance of beauty, conversance with the arts, and all-around cultivation, the Japanese geisha was a living work of art. The celebrities and supermodels of their time, geisha were the primary arbiters of kimono fashion. In keeping with the geisha tradition of elegant dress, Ichimaru (1906-1997) accumulated a striking collection of kimono over the course of her long career. After her death, the collection was given to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. In this colorful, well-informed, and satisfying little book, three members of the gallery's curatorial staff tell lchimaru's life story and place it in the context of the floating world and the larger world of Japanese culture. They also provide detailed information on kimono construction, materials, dyeing and stitching techniques, styles and the cultural connotations evoked by those styles, and the secret language of kimono imagery. Color photographs accompany their descriptions, and Ichimaru's life is illustrated with color and black-and-white images. Published with The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; written by Barry Till, Michiko Warkentyne, and Judith Patt.
Great New Wave: Contemporary Art from Japan Description: 9 x 11 inches 77 pages in length, softcover, colour images Price: $25.00 (+ GST)	This groundbreaking Canadian presentation of Japanese art examines new and recent work by emerging and mid-career artists. After its economic collapse in the 1990s, Japan’s Superflat movement, epitomized by the work of Takashi Murikami and Yoshimoto Nara, catapulted these and like-minded artists onto the contemporary art world stage. Today, an exciting new wave of work follows in the wake of the Superflat aesthetic, defined by a new generation of Japanese artists. Their diverse works, on view in Canada for the first time, reflect an acute consciousness of cultural tradition, while simultaneously proposing visions of a globalized future. Co-presented by the Art Gallery of Hamilton and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. Curated by Sara Knelman and Lisa Baldissera.
Sublime Embrace: Experiencing Consciousness in Contemporary Art Description: 10 x 10 inches 80 pages in length, softcover, colour images Price: $35.00 (+ GST)	Sublime Embrace was the OAAG 2006 Exhibition of the Year Award winner. This international, multi-disciplinary exhibition brought together artists who have assimilated strategies of sensation into their work - reminders of feeling, seeing, perceiving and knowing. Recognized for its "creative and innovative orchestration of art works, generating new experiential contexts." Artists in the exhibition included Miroslaw Balka, Tania Bruguera, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, James Casebere, David Hoffos, Anish Kapoor, Mark Karasick, Annika Larsson, Robert Longo, Katarina Matiasek, Ernesto Neto, Tony Oursler, David Rokeby, Barbara Steinman, and Bill Viola.
Lasting Impressions: Celebrated Works from the Art Gallery of Hamilton (bilingual) Description: 9.5 x 12 inches 300 pages in length, illustrated with 100 colour images Hardcover Price: $100.00 (+ GST) Softcover Price: $69.00 (+ GST)	A collector's item for Canadian art enthusiasts! This spectacular catalogue features works from the Gallery’s stunning permanent collection as featured in the AGH’s re-opening exhibition, Lasting Impressions: Celebrated Works from the Art Gallery of Hamilton. Catalogue features essays from over 30 specialists.
Heaven Earth Unveiled: European Treasures from the Tanenbaum Collection (bilingual) Description: 9.5 x 12 inches 300 pages in length, illustrated with 100 colour images Hardcover Price: $100.00 (+ GST) Softcover Price: $69.00 (+ GST)	This magnificant catalogue with rare images captured in print is written by Louise d'Argencourt, Guest Curator and prominent scholar in the field of nineteenth-century French art. Essays by Alison McQueen (Associate Professor of Art History at McMaster University) and Patrick Shaw Cable (Curator of European Art, Art Gallery of Hamilton) are also included.
The Manchu Era (1644-1912), Arts of China's Last Imperial Dynasty Description: 9 x 6 inches 144 pages in length, illustrated, softcover Price: $17.00 (+ GST)	This unique catalogue, provided by the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, highlights the ceramics of the period; as well as elaborate costumes, painting and calligraphy scrolls, and intricately carved jade, ivory, amber, and bamboo.
In the Shadow of the Midnight Sun: Inuit and Sámi Art 2000-2005 Description: 9 x 10 inches 64 pages in length, softcover, colour images Price: $40.00 (+ GST)	Selection of works by Canadian Inuit artists and Sámi artists from Norway, Sweden and Finland made between 2000 and 2005. Although there is no evidence that the Sámi and Inuit are in any way related, they are both indigenous cultures who originally inhabited the lands now incorporated into the confines of contemporary nations. Their circumstances in the years since contact have many similarities as far as the affects on religion, language, lifestyle, learning and politics, with the exception that Sámi European contact was earlier and more intense.
Ferdinando Bilanzola (1956 - 2001) Description: 8 x 8 inches 12 pages in length, illustrated with colour images, softcover Price: $10.00 (+ GST)	From the exhibition Ferdinando Bilanzola: Visual Sensations (AGH - October 19, 2006 to January 28, 2007) as part of the collaborative retrospective exhibition on the life’s work of Hamilton artist Ferdinando Bilanzola (1957-2001). More familiarly known as Fred, Bilanzola’s artistic career spanned well over 30 years. His influence as artist, teacher and friend contributed broadly to the growing local artist community, and will not soon be forgotten.
Sara Angelucci: Somewhere in Between Description: 6 x 6 inches 14 pages in length, illustrated with colour images, softcover Price: $5.00 (+ GST)	From the exhibition Sara Angelucci: Everything in My Father’s Wallet/Everything in My Wallet (AGH - September 30 to December 31, 2006). Sara Angelucci's photographs and videos explore the reaches of memory using both archival and new images. Drawing on her family history, her work explores shifting identities and a suspended state between an immigrant past and a complex current history.
David Rokeby Description: 8.5 x 6.5 inches 55 pages in length, illustrated with colour images, softcover Price: $15.00 (+ GST)	Publication accompanying Rokeby's new media presentation at the 26th Sao Paulo Bienal in the Fall of 2004. Entitled Gathering, his new media installation uses cameras, computers and projectors to capture, transfigure and transmit images of human activity in the Sao Paulo Bienal building itself. Rokeby's project was selected to represent Canada at the prestigious international event. Co-published with Presentation House Gallery.
WHITE ROMA / WHITE PELEE C. Wells Description: 9 x 6.5 inches 21 pages in length, illustrated with colour images, softcover Price: $12.00 (+ GST)	Through the exclusive use of line marker paint, the industrial medium used to define the boundaries of our highways, Canadian artist C. Wells has developed a painting practice akin in spirit to that of a topographer. With WHITE ROMA/WHITE PELEE, C. Wells adds to his ongoing project that combines performance and painting, bringing a unique perspective and meaning to “all roads lead to Rome”.

ARCHIVED CATALOGUES
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1998
Leonard Hutchinson | Essay by: Grace Inglis | 37 pages, colour | Price: $80.00 (+ GST)

1994
John Massey contemporary Canadian, photo based and installations | Texts: Peggy Gale and Ihor Holubizky (AGH Curator) | 80 pages, 130 b&w photos | Price: $10.00 (+ GST)

1993
The Art of Playing | Intro: Wendy Woon (Head, Dept. of Education, AGH) | 16 pages, 10 colour plates | (Limited Edition of 175 copies) Price: $10.00 (+ GST)

1990
Derek Besant: De Composition contemporary Canadian, drawings and installations | Text: Leslie Dawn | 52 pages, 6 colour, 22 b&w photos | Price: $8.00 (+ GST)

David Craven: The E.L. Stringer Collection contemporary Canadian, painting (AGH Permanent Collection) | Text: Saul Ostrow | 40 pages, 10 colour, 13 b&w photos | Price: $8.00 (+ GST)

1989
Andrew Dutkewych contemporary Canadian, sculpture | Text: Trevor Gould | 32 pages, 7 colour, 12 b&w photos | Price: $6.00 (+ GST)

The Art Gallery of Hamilton: Seventy Five Years (1914 1989) Anniversary Publication; 75 works by 75 artists selected from the permanent collection | Texts: Ross Fox (AGH Curator) and Grace Inglis | 122 pages, 77 colour, 35 b&w photos | Hardcover Price: $40.00 (+ GST) (softcover not available)

Living Impressions: Contemporary Canadian graphics from the Permanent Collection; 75 works by 75 artists | Introduction: Glen E. Cumming (AGH Director) | 92 pages, 13 colour, 14 b&w photos | Price: $10.00 (+ GST)

1987
Industrial Images Canadian, 20th century | Text: Rosemary Donegan (bilingual) | 143 pages, 149 b&w photos | Price: $15.00 (+ GST)

1982
20th Century Bookbinding | Texts: John Holmes and David B. Kotin | 40 pages, 17 colour, 35 b&w photos | Price: $5.00 (+ GST)

El Dorado: Gold From Ancient Columbia | Introduction: Glen E. Cumming (AGH Director); Text: Luis Duque Gomez | 40 pages, 6 colour, 42 b&w photos | Price: $8.00 (+ GST)