Carleton University Art Gallery announces "Sanattiaqsimajut" - the book! Featuring a short essay by your's truly on the portrayal of the human face in Inuit Sculpture. It is available at CUAG and at ABC ArtBooks Canada. The link to their website is here:
http://www.facebook.com/l/89274;www.abcartbookscanada.com/ordiindiv.html“Sanattiaqsimajut: Inuit Art from the Carleton University Art Gallery Collection” accompanies an exhibition of the same name, curated by Ingo Hessel and presented at CUAG this past autumn. “Sanattiaqsimajut” – Inuktitut for “these things that are finely made” – is a full-colour, richly-illustrated, 232-page hardcover catalogue.
Hessel’s essay discusses the works in terms of several important narrative threads that recur throughout Inuit art. The artworks are then grouped into 37 smaller topics that manifest a diverse range of approaches, such as thematic, biographical, and formal. Each topic is accompanied by a 500-word essay written by 33 invited experts in the field of Inuit art, including CUAG’s former curators of Inuit art. The book’s guest writers are:
Drew Armour, Shannon Bagg, Jennifer Cartwright, Mary-Louise Davis, Dorothy Harley Eber, Bernadette Driscoll Engelstad, Patricia Feheley, Jennifer Gibson, Linda Grussani, Anna Hudson, Heather Igloliorte, Marion Jackson, Robert Kardosh, Christine Lalonde, Kenneth Lister, Jenny McMaster, Melania Medd, Krystina Mierins, Marybelle Mitchell, Wendy Moir, Judith Nasby, Crystal Parsons, Marie Routledge, Leslie Boyd Ryan, Terrence Ryan, Pitaloosie Saila, Laura Schneider, Lucy Tasseor Tutsweetok, Norman Vorano, Cynthia Waye, Sally Qimmiunaaq Webster, Darlene Coward Wight, Norman Zepp.