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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Disrupted city walking the pathways of memory and history in Lahore
Asif, Manan Ahmed
Paper Book
A stunning history of Pakistan's cultural and intellectual capital, from one of the preeminent scholars of South Asia Longlisted, 2025 Cundill History Prize The city of Lahore was more than one thousand years old when it went through a violent...

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

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

Tales of India folk tales from Bengal, Punjab, and Tamil Nadu
Kohli, Svabhu, 1990- illustrator.
Paper Book
A shape-shifting tiger and a pretentious rat. A generous goddess and a powerful demon. A clever princess and a prince who returns from the dead. This collection of 16 traditional tales transports readers to the beguiling world of Indian folklore. ...

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

Emperors' treasures Chinese art from the National Palace Museum, Taipei
Xu, Jay, editor.
Paper Book
Emperors' Treasures features artworks from the renowned National Palace Museum, Taipei. It encompasses paintings, calligraphy, bronzes, ceramics, lacquer ware, jades, and textiles exemplifying the finest craftsmanship and imperial taste. The Chinese art book book explores...

Fifty Shades of Ink: Ink Paintings from the AGGV Collection

The spirit of the brush Chinese brush painting techniques : simplicity, spirit, and personal journey
Setton, Sungsook Hong
Paper Book
Artist and teacher Sungsook Setton, who learned the techniques of Chinese ink painting with Chinese and Korean masters in her native South Korea, brings new excitement to this age-old art.

Fifty Shades of Ink: Ink Paintings from the AGGV Collection

Albert and the whale : Albrecht DĂźrer and how art imagines our world
Hoare, Philip
Paper Book
An illuminating exploration of the intersection between life, art and the sea from the award-winning author of The Whale. In 1520, Albrecht Dürer, the most celebrated artist in Northern Europe, sailed to Zeeland to see a whale. A central figure of the Renaissance, no...

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

The other Renaissance from Copernicus to Shakespeare : how the Renaissance in Northern Europe transformed the world
Strathern, Paul, 1940- author.
Paper Book
An original, illuminating history of the northern European Renaissance in art, science, and philosophy, which often rivaled its Italian counterpart. It is generally accepted that the European Renaissance began in Italy. However, a historical transformation of similar...

Dangerous Beauty: The Prints of Albrecht Dürer


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