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William Kurelek: The Messenger Description: 10.5 x 9 inches Hardcover, 256 pages, 80 colour illustrations ISBN 978-0-88885-364-6 Price: $40.00	Throughout a career that spanned from mid-1950s until his death, William Kurelek (1927-1977) and his art have meant many different things to many people. Widely-known as a painter of innocence and childhood memories whose scenes hearken back to a simpler and timeless past, Kurelek was also a chronicler of the experiences of various cultural groups in Canada, devoting entire series to Ukrainian, Jewish, Polish, Irish, French Canadian, and Inuit peoples. Then there is Kurelek the anguished prophet of a modern apocalypse, his art an indictment of the secular age and a testament to unwavering faith. Born in Alberta and raised in Manitoba, this highly prolific, disciplined and driven Toronto-based painter made more than 2,000 paintings in just a quarter century. Few Canadian artists are so readily accessible, compellingly complex, and so worthy of critical reappraisal. Organized into six thematic sections, this profusely illustrated monograph accompanies the first large-scale survey of William Kurelek in thirty years. Essays highlight Kurelek’s formative years when the young artist underwent psychiatric treatment and converted to Roman Catholicism. From here they explore his overtly religious sermons, his warnings of an imminent apocalypse, the poetics of landscape, and his qualified reflections of community and belonging. In essence, the publication mirrors Kurelek’s own psychic and creative journey through a reconciliation of his formative experiences and beliefs: from isolation, through religion, to a place of hope and acceptance. In addition to major contributions by curators Tobi Bruce (AGH), Andrew Kear (WAG) and Mary Jo Hughes (AGGV), the catalogue also feature essays by Avrom Isaacs, Kurelek’s dealer and friend; Brian Dedora, who worked with Kurelek; and the late Brian Smylski, former executive director of the Niagara Falls Art Gallery.
Attila Richard Lukacs from the Collection of Salah J. Bachir Description: 11 x 14 inches Hardcover, linen bound, 144 pages, 91 full-colour illustrations ISBN 978-1-897407-12-7 Price: $80.00	Attila Richard Lukacs (Canadian, b. 1962) is a Vancouver-based artist who began his practice in the early 1980s. He has since gained notoriety for his large-scale figurative paintings, and in particular, his sensual treatment of the male nude. Salah J. Bachir is Lukacs’s primary collector. This major catalogue lushly illustrates Bachir’s entire collection of Lukacs pieces, including many of the artist’s most well-known paintings, Polaroids and collages created over the last three decades. The publication includes reprinted essays by Scott Watson, John Bentley Mays, Robert Enright and Louise Dompierre, which were published at pivotal moments in Lukacs’s career; accompanied by an introduction from Melissa Bennett, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Hamilton. The book is published on the occasion of the exhibition Attila Richard Lukacs from the Collection of Salah J. Bachir, held at the Art Gallery of Hamilton in Fall 2011. Designer: Branka Vidovic, NeoGraphics.
Polaroids: Attila Richard Lukacs and Michael Morris By (artist) Attila Richard Lukacs and Michael Morris Description: 33.5 x 42.5 cm Hardcover, 176 pages, colour photos ISBN 978-1-551522-95-1 Price: $60.00	Attila Richard Lukacs is one of Canada's most talented and controversial contemporary artists. He is best known for his epic paintings that depict masculine, homoerotic imagery, featuring figures such as gay skinheads and military cadets. His work has been exhibited at documenta in Kassel, Germany, as well as in New York, Paris, London, Berlin, Cologne, Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver, among others. A co-publication between Arsenal Pulp Press, Presentation House Gallery of North Vancouver, and the Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton, this will be the first book to document the work of this important artist, from an unusual perspective - a collection of some 1,200 full-colour Polaroid images (twelve per page) taken by Lukacs over the past twenty years as core referents for his paintings, assembled and collaged by Vancouver artist and curator Michael Morris. Lukacs regularly uses a Polaroid camera as part of his artistic process, using his friends and acquaintances in Berlin, New York, Vancouver and elsewhere as models; taking advantage of the Polaroid's unique characteristics, his painterly sensibility is evident in the rich hues and romantic sensuality of these photographs, which are strikingly similar to the paintings that resulted from them. The book will feature essays by award-winning author Michael Turner (Hard Core Logo, The Pornographer's Poem); Scott Watson, director of the Morris & Helen Belkin Gallery in Vancouver; and Vince Aletti, the American curator, critic, and journalist. Stunning and bold, Polaroids: Attila Richard Lukacs and Michael Morris is a remarkable visual and written document on Lukacs, one of Canada's greatest artists working today, and his unique collaboration with Morris, a hugely important artist in his own right.
Out of Place / Non lieu: Lise Beaudry Isabelle Hayeur Marie-Josée Laframboise Description: 17.78 x 22.86 cm Softcover, 80 pages, fully illustrated in colour (36 colour illustrations) ISBN 978-1-897407-11-0 Price: $30.00	In the exhibition Out of Place / Non lieu, francophone artists explore imagined places and ephemeral sites. Isabelle Hayeur’s photographs of Quebec City are manipulated to include fictional elements, using “lies” to tell the truth about gentrification, complicating perceptions of an iconic place. Marie-Josée Laframboise’s installation is a site-specific imaginary landscape made of undulating iridescent netting, along with an oil pastel drawing which reveals her schematic processes, made on the wall of the gallery. Meditating on the temporal character of a site, Lise Beaudry photographs the surfaces of frozen lakes as white abstractions. These images are accompanied by a video projection of a murky underwater scene with ambient sound. The exhibition and accompanying catalogue revolve around the viewer’s experience of ethereal and ambiguous environments predicated on "no place" or "non lieu."
The French Connection: Canadian Painters at the Paris Salon 1880 – 1900 Tobi Bruce and Dr. Patrick Shaw Cable Description: 25.4 x 21 cm Hardcover, 84 pages, fully illustrated in colour (58 colour illustrations) ISBN 978-1-897407-10-3 Price: $45.00	For Canadian artists working in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the lure of Paris was irresistible. With its teaching and exhibition opportunities, international artists flocked to the City of Light in search of artistic education and validation. This exhibition and accompanying catalogue explore the essence of the French experience for Canadian artists alongside work by their French painting colleagues and masters. A focal point of the project is a consideration of Canadian painters at the annual Paris Salons between 1880 and 1900. For foreign artists, acceptance of work to the Salon marked the culmination of their purpose in Paris and validation of their decision to train and study abroad. Indeed, to exhibit a work at the Paris Salons was to participate on the world stage; it was to have arrived.

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Diane Landry: Les défibrillateurs / The Defibrillators Eve-Lyne Beaudry & Kim Simon Description: 25 x 20 cm 120 pages, colour illustrations, French and English texts ISBN 978-2-921801-41-6 Price: $30.00	First monograph on the twenty-year career of Diane Landry, a major figure on the Canadian contemporary art scene. Taking her inspiration from the world around her, Landry creates environments that plunge the visitor into experiences that capture the eye, the ear and the emotions. By recycling, manipulating and even falsifying everyday objects she transforms them into kinetic poetry - the physicality of the works intensified by elements of performance and installation. Produced with The Robert McLaughlin Gallery. Bilingual. Musée d’art de Joliette (02/2009).
Eugène Carrière: Shadow and Substance The Doctor Nick Vlachos Collection Description: 8 x 10 inches 88 pages, colour ISBN 978-0978744120 Price: $45.00	Eugene Carriere: Shadow and Substance is the exhibition catalogue from the Dr. Nick Vlachos art collection, which featured over 50 paintings by the French Symobolist painter (1849-1906). The exhibition and catalog were a collaborative effort between the Millikin University Art Department and the Decatur Area Arts Council. The book features an introduction by Dr. Shelley Cordulack, including the themes of the human condition as Carriere may have seen them. Edited by Ed Walker with an introduction by Dr. Shelley Cordulacki.
Brendan Fernandes: until we fearless Description: 7 x 10 inches 96 pages in length, hardcover 35 illustrations (24 in colour) ISBN 978-1-897407-05-9 Price: $30.00	This catalogue illustrates recent work featured in Brendan Fernandes’ first solo exhibition at the museum level, held at the Art Gallery of Hamilton in 2010. A text by Melissa Bennett discusses Fernandes’ use of hybrid technologies to generate critical dialogue on stereotypical representations of African cultures; and his analysis of the notion of authenticity. An interview with the artist by Eric C. Shiner, the Milton Fine Curator of Art at the Andy Warhol Museum, examines Fernandes’ life experience and past art practices. Born in Kenya of South Asian heritage, Fernandes immigrated to Canada in the 1990s. He completed the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art (2007) and earned his MFA (2005) from the University of Western Ontario and his BFA (2002) from York University. He has exhibited internationally, has participated in numerous residency programs and is the current recipient of the New Commissions Project through Art in General, New York. He is based between Toronto and New York. His work is represented by Diaz Contemporary, Toronto. Fernandes is shortlisted for the 2010 Sobey Art Award. Melissa Bennett, Art Gallery of Hamilton (September 2010).
Europe’s Exoticized East Description: 10 ¼ x 11 ¼ inches 68 pages in length, softcover, 37 colour illustrations Price: $30.00	Europe’s Exoticized East presents a diverse array of lush visions created by 19th-century Orientalists—European artists specializing in Near Eastern and North African subjects. The scholarly publication documents works from the AGH collection by artists such as Jean-Léon Gérôme, Charles Bargue, and Antoine-Louis Barye, and an equal number of significant loans from eight American and Canadian institutions. Examples include Delacroix’s watercolours from his 1832 trip to Morocco, and Cordier’s magnificent sculpture Negro of the Sudan, composed of silvered bronze and Algerian onyx-marble. Vividly beautiful, brilliantly coloured, and illustrating varying degrees of fantastic, realist, and naturalist treatments, these works convey European artists’ enthusiastic embrace of new subjects from the Near East, and also provide us with meaningful insight into 19th-century Western attitudes toward the region. Dr. Patrick Shaw Cable, Art Gallery of Hamilton (February 2010).
David Merritt: shim sham shimmy Description: 9 x 7.5 inches 76 pages in length, hardcover, 39 colour images Price: $35.00	Co-published by Museum London, Art Gallery of Hamilton, the MacLaren Art Centre and the Art Gallery of Windsor. Texts by Ihor Holubizky, James Patten, David Poolman and Carl Wilson.
Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present Description: Hardcover Price: $62.50	The first photographic history of black beauty. It tells a story overlooked by most of America, and promises to transform the way we think about the history of African American visual culture. Deborah Willis, whose much-celebrated Reflections in Black provided the first definitive history of black photographers, has now collected over two hundred photographs in duotone and full color that provide a lasting statement on beauty in the African American community. From posed studio portraits to dandies on parade to elegant debutantes, Willis has constructed a bold narrative of the ever-changing idea of beauty, both female and male, and shows how history books, newspapers, and mainstream magazines deliberately excluded black models until the late 1960s and early 1970s. Deborah Willis.
Modernist Photographs from the National Gallery of Canada Description: 200 pages in length Price: $49.00	This original publication, which focuses on the early decades of the twentieth century, is the first in a new series devoted to the study of photographic masterpieces from the National Gallery of Canada's international collection. Examining the expansive, innovative and often contradictory modernist ethos that shaped the creation and use of photographic art from 1900 to 1940, this generously illustrated publication highlights dozens of works from Germany, England, Czech Republic, United States, France, Russia, Hungary, Japan and Canada. An introductory essay describes the development of photography artistically, technically and socially. Following the essay, 79 individual works are presented within the context of their times. Each is illustrated with a full-page duo tone plate. Among the artists are some of the world's greatest photographic innovators, notably Eugène Atget, Margaret Bourke-White, Brassaï, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Lisette Model, Alexander Rodchenko and Edward Weston. Ann Thomas.
TURN ON: Contemporary Italian Art Description: 9 x 8 inches 44 pages in length, softcover, colour images Price: $25.00	Publication showcasing the work of three of Italy's most dynamic contemporary artists: Massimo Grimaldi, Adrian Paci and Patrick Tuttofuoco. With suggestive language, electric currents and vivid colour, they harness the power of their subjects as a way of turning on their viewers. Sara Knelman, Art Gallery of Hamilton (August 2009).
Pascal Grandmaison: Double Take Description: 10.5 x 7 inches 164 pages in length, hardcover, colour images Price: $40.00	Known for his coolly distanced photographic portraits, Grandmaison’s new work explores the connections between the economy of the image – its materials and formal and technical conventions – and the social and economic structures that govern our everyday environment. This abundantly illustrated monograph follows the artist’s interrogation of the mechanics of film and photography, as well as the tensions between the realism of the images and the abstract codes underlying their representation. In English and French. Previously announced. Now available in an expanded hardcover edition. Carleton University Art Gallery / Art Gallery of Hamilton (March 2009). Diana Nemiroff and Sara Knelman.
Inspirational: The Collection of H.S. Southam Description: 10 x 9 inches 60 pages in length, softcover, colour images Price: $28.00	Newspaper publisher Harry Stevenson Southam (1875-1954) was one of Canada’s foremost collectors of art in the 1930s and 1940s. As Chairman of the National Gallery of Canada Board of Trustees, he helped shape the national collection and foster an appreciation of new Canadian art. This publication documents Southam’s extensive collection with works by, notably, members of the Group of Seven, Emily Carr, Prudence Heward and Anne Savage. Alicia Boutilier is one of the country’s leading scholars on mid-twentieth century Canadian art. Written by Alicia Boutilier (Curator, Canadian Historical Art, Agnes Etherington Art Centre).
Jean-Pierre Gauthier Description: 26 x 23 cm 126 pages in length, softcover, 50 colour images Price: $29.95	Jean-Pierre Gauthier creates sound environments using ordinary objects, modulated sounds and physical interaction. His art is divided between "systemic and mechanical-hygienic installations" and sound installations. The analog animation movements of his kinetic creations lend his installations a faintly antiquated character despite their obvious technological ingenuity. This publication is the first monograph dedicated to his work. Gauthier was the 2004 winner of the Sobey Art Award, Canada's pre-eminent prize for young Canadian artists. In English and French. Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (01/2007). Pierre Landry, Michel F. Côté & Ray Cronin.
Light, Colour, and Grace: The Romeo Paintings Collection Description: 9 x 11 inches 64 pages in length, softcover, colour images Price: $25.00	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	The magnificent kimonos that once belonged to the Geisha/Diva Ichimaru of the early to late 20th century are the subject of this illustrated publication. The richness of the costumes is a stunning experience. The authors weave a compelling story of not only the nuances of the age old geisha tradition, but how a young country woman rose from a background of poverty to become one of her country's national treasures. 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	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 their wake, defined by a new generation of Japanese artists. Their diverse works reflect an acute consciousness of cultural tradition, while simultaneously proposing visions of a globalized future. Among the artists featured are Manabu Ikeda, Yoshiaki Kaihatsu and Sayaka Akiyama. They work in a wide range of medium: drawing, installation, photography, sculpture, textiles, video and site-specific projects. Co-presented by the Art Gallery of Hamilton and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. Curated by Sara Knelman and Lisa Baldissera.
Kent Monkman: The Triumph of Mischief Description: 11 x 9 inches 200 pages in length, hardcover, colour images Price: $49.95	Cree artist Kent Monkman sweeps through art history, creating a disrupted narrative that entangles historical and contemporary relationships between Europeans and First Nations. This first ever monograph offers a wide-ranging look at an exceptional artistic practice, with particular emphasis on Monkman’s history paintings and performances. Abundantly illustrated and containing five original essays, this elegant publication accompanied a national tour and is produced in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Hamilton and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art. David Liss, Shirley Madill, Catherine Mattes, David McIntosh & Gerald R. McMaster.
Sublime Embrace: Experiencing Consciousness in Contemporary Art Description: 10 x 10 inches 80 pages in length, softcover, colour images Price: $35.00	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 Softcover Price: $69.00	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 Softcover Price: $69.00	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	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	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	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	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	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	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 For Sale

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)