The Inuit print = l'estampe inuit / a travelling exhibition of the National Museum of Man, National Museums of Canada and the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, Ottawa.
267 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 x 26 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-267).
Contents
Antecedents -- Modern printmaking -- Cape Dorset -- Povungnituk and other Arctic Quebec Centres -- Holman -- Baker Lake -- Pangnirtung -- Appendices: Inuit artists and printmakers alphabetically and by community -- data on number of images produced and graphic techniques used -- The Canadian Eskimo Arts Council.
Summary
The art of the Canadian Inuit is a phenomenon of the mid-twentieth century; in thirty years, a treasured abundance of good art has come from a very few persons within this distinct culture. We admire the varieties of style and medium, the range and scale of subject matter, forth from a culture under severe stress from rapid, deep and pervasive change -- from foreword.