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.

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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

Sikhs the story of a people, their faith and culture
Patnaik, Saanika
Paper Book
Dive into the history, philosophy, and 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

Song of Lahore
Obaid-Chinoy, Sharmeen
DVD

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

Under the turban
Shea, Meghan
DVD

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

Undesirables white Canada and the Komagata Maru : an illustrated history
Kazimi, Ali.
Paper Book

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

The art of contemporary China
Jiang, Jiehong
Paper Book
Fulfilling a need for an accessible, affordable introduction to a subject of sustained and growing significance in contemporary culture, this volume in the World of Art series redefines contemporary Chinese art in the last forty years since the end of China's Cultural Revolution, placing it in...

Fifty Shades of Ink: Ink Paintings from the AGGV Collection

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

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

Ink for printmaking the art, craft and chemistry of ink
Hoskins, Stephen
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

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

Traces of words art and calligraphy from Asia
Nakamura, Fuyubi, 1974-
Paper Book
Regardless of how globalized our world might seem, languages and written words continue to refer to particular cultural locations. If we are unable to read them, however, written words and scripts present a purely visual encounter. Traces of Words explores the cultural significance and artistic...

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

Albrecht Durer his life and works : an illustrated exploration of the artist in context, with a biography and gallery of his paintings and drawings
Ormiston, Rosalind
Paper Book
Albrecht Durer (1471-1528), Renaissance genius - artist, poet, writer, and theorist - was acknowledged across Europe. He was praised as the Apelles Germaniae ('German Apelles'), honoured by noble patronage, commissioned by the Elector of Saxony, Frederick the Wise and Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I...

Dangerous Beauty: The Prints of Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer watercolours and drawings
Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528
Paper Book
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Dangerous Beauty: The Prints of Albrecht Dürer

Artists' journeys that shaped our world
Elborough, Travis
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

Art of the Northern Renaissance courts, commerce and devotion
Porras, Stephanie
Paper Book
In this lucid account, Stephanie Porras charts the fascinating story of art in northern Europe during the Renaissance period (ca. 1400-1570). She explains how artists and patrons from the regions north of the Alps - the Low Countries, France, England, Germany - responded to an era of rapid political...

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

Witchcraft
Hundley, Jessica, editor.
Paper Book
Initiating readers in the fascinating and complex history of witchcraft, from the goddess mythologies of ancient cultures to the contemporary embrace of the craft by modern artists and activists, this expansive tome conjures up a breathtaking overview of an age-old tradition. Rooted in legend,...

Dangerous Beauty: The Prints of Albrecht Dürer


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