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Corpus of Inuit Prints : Woodblock print (BAnQ)
Corpus of prints produced by Manuel Lau and published under the aegis of Puvirnituq Printshop. Since the inception of the Experimental Print Program in Cape Dorset, Puvirnituq has been one of four Inuit communities that has produced collections of prints on a regular basis. These works allow us to appreciate this practice of Inuit art which traditionally puts the world around it first. It includes, among other things, a tribute to the internationally renowned artist Davidialuk Alaasuaq Amittukinuit.
Subjects: Indigenous art, Inuit
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- Free - Open Access
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- Open Access
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Corpus of Inuit prints: silkscreen (BAnQ)
This selection of prints illustrates screen printing practices within the Inuit community of Povungnituk during the 1980s, spurred on by the Cape Dorset art movement. This so-called contemporary artistic phase was characterized by a culture in full transition and coincided with the gradual “opening” of the North after the Second World War. This corpus highlights birds, marine mammals and land animals from the Arctic.
Subjects: Arts, Indigenous art, Inuit
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- Free - Open Access
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- Open Access
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Corpus of Inuit Prints: Stone Engraving (BAnQ)
This selection of prints illustrates stonecutting practices within the Inuit art community of Povungnituk in the early 1980s. Featuring prominent Inuit printmakers of the time, it highlights the complex self-representation of the experience. Nordic, the founding myths of Inuit culture as well as traditional hunting and fishing techniques.
Subjects: Indigenous art, Inuit
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- Free - Open Access
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- Open Access
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Encyclopedia of Native American Artists
Encyclopedia featuring the work and lives of over 70 Indigenous artists and crafters specializing in sculpture, painting, photography, weaving, basketry, and pottery.
Subjects: Indigenous art, Indigenous artists, Indigenous peoples, Painting, Photographs, Sculpture
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- Printed document
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- Print Document
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Inuit Art Quarterly (Inuit Art Foundation)
This award-winning magazine is dedicated to circumpolar Indigenous art and new and notable indigenous artists. (Inuit Art Quarterly, 1986 to the present)
Subjects: Indigenous art, Indigenous artists, Inuit
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- Reserved Access
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- Reserved Access
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Inuit print – Growth: I (BAnQ)
Print by Ludmila Armate, painter of Polish origin working in Quebec, published in a collection of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative. In the late 1990s, at the instigation of his coming to Kinngait Studios, the Inuit of Cape Dorset were introduced to large-format drawings with oil sticks for the first time.
Subjects: Indigenous art, Inuit
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- Free - Open Access
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- Open Access
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- Humanities and Social Sciences