Art Gallery of Greater Victoria - Fall & Winter 2025/26

Library materials to enhance your experience visiting the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria in the Fall and Winter 2025/26.

ਸ਼ੀਸ਼ੇ ‘ਚ ਤਰੇੜ sheeshe ‘ch thareṛ | a crack in the mirror: November 22, 2025 - April 12, 2026.

Fifty Shades of Ink: Ink Paintings from the AGGV Collection: December 6, 2025 - April 26, 2026

Dangerous Beauty: The Prints of Albrecht Dürer: December 13, 2025 - May 3, 2026.

Updated October 18, 2025
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In exile rupture, reunion, and my grandmother's secret life
Ansari, Sadiya
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Globe 100 Best Book of 2024! The Hill Times 100 Best Book of 2024 In a deeply personal investigation, award-winning journalist Sadiya Ansari takes us across three continents and back a century as she seeks the truth behind a family secret. Why did her...

ਸ਼ੀਸ਼ੇ ‘ਚ ਤਰੇੜ sheeshe ‘ch thareṛ | a crack in the mirror

Sikhs : the story of a people, their faith and culture
Singh, Roopinder.
Paper Book
Dive into the history, the philosophy, the essence of the Sikh faith, and trace its evolution. At the turn of the 15th century, Guru Nanak embarked on a series of journeys across the Indian subcontinent and instituted an equitable community and an egalitarian religion, built...

ਸ਼ੀਸ਼ੇ ‘ਚ ਤਰੇੜ sheeshe ‘ch thareṛ | a crack in the mirror

The Chinese art book
Mackenzie, Colin (Colin Christopher), writer of added text.
Paper Book
The Chinese Art Bookis a beautifully presented, authoritative and unprecedented overview of Chinese art. The book examines the art of the oldest continuous civilization on Earth through 300 works, from the (earliest dynasties) Neolithic period to the new generation of contemporary artists...

Fifty Shades of Ink: Ink Paintings from the AGGV Collection

Chinese brush painting through the seasons
Chenggang, Sun
Paper Book
Be inspired by the beautiful work of Cheng Yan and create your own brush paintings for each season. A year of beautiful Chinese brush painting awaits you in this stunning book. Cheng Yan captures all the freshness and spontaneity of Chinese brush painting in this beautiful,...

Fifty Shades of Ink: Ink Paintings from the AGGV Collection

Ink for printmaking the art, craft and chemistry of ink
Hoskins, Stephen
Paper Book
The ultimate guide to printing inks and processes, from the pigment to the printmaker. Inks have remained a fundamental aspect of the printing process since its invention. In this comprehensive and accessible guide, Stephen Hoskins and Michael Craine trace the development of...

Fifty Shades of Ink: Ink Paintings from the AGGV Collection

Albert and the whale
Hoare, Philip
Paper Book
A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AN OBSERVER BEST ART BOOK OF 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022 'This is a wonderful book. A lyrical journey into the natural and unnatural world' Patti Smith 'Everything Philip Hoare writes is...

Dangerous Beauty: The Prints of Albrecht Dürer

Artists' journeys that shaped our world
Elborough, Travis
Paper Book
In Artists' Journeys that Shaped Our World, follow in the footsteps of some of the world's most famous painters and discover the journeys that influenced their work. Join award-winning author Travis Elborough as he explores some of the most inspiring travels of all time.

Dangerous Beauty: The Prints of Albrecht Dürer

Earthly delights a history of the Renaissance
Jones, Jonathan, 1976- author.
Paper Book
A Sunday Times Art Book of the Year: written by one of the UK's foremost art critics, this new narrative history of the Renaissance takes in the whole of Europe and its global context. What was the 'Renaissance'? In the nineteenth century this flowering of creativity...

Dangerous Beauty: The Prints of Albrecht Dürer


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