Recommended Reading List
Books of the public galleries of Canada
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Public galleries and art museums throughout Canada publish exceptional books on art. These are some of them. Browse the list or search all of Bookshelf by gallery name, e.g. Vancouver Art Gallery or Art Gallery of Alberta.
The Modern Woman
Drawings By Degas, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and Other Masterpieces From the Musée d'Orsay, Paris
edition:Paperback
The Uncanny
Experiments in Cyborg Culture
edition:Paperback
The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture is a dazzling and provocative examination of the cyborg--the concept of man-as-machine--in popular culture. The book collects essays and images, in colour and black-and-white, presenting the image of the cyborg in all its imaginative guises. The title is from a 1919 essay by Sigmund Freud (and included in the book), which deals with the sensation of "uncanniness" as being strange and familiar at the same time.
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