Research Catalog

Title

The Inuit print : a travelling exhibition of the National Museum of Man, National Museums of Canada, and the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs = L'estampe inuit : une exposition itinérante du Musée national de l'homme, Musées nationaux du Canada, et du Ministère des affaires indiennes et du Nord.

Author

National Museum of Man (Canada)

Publication

Ottawa : National Museum of Man : National Museums of Canada, c1977.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Canada. Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.
• Canada. Indian and Northern Affairs.
• National Museums of Canada
• National Museums of Canada (Canada)

Description

267 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map; 23 x 26 cm.

Summary

Catalogue of the traveling exhibition The Inuit Print, which was mounted at the AGO in 1978. Includes various prefatory essays, on topics such as techniques of modern printmaking and its antecedents. The catalogue is organized according to region, and includes work from Kinngait (Cape Dorset), Puvirnituq (Povungnituk) and other Arctic Quebec centres, Uluhaktuk (Holman), Qamani'tuaq (Baker Lake), and Panniqtuuq (Pangnirtung). Contains various appendices: a list of Inuit artists and printmakers, both alphabetically and by community; data on number of images produced and graphic techniques used, 1959-1976; and a brief history of the Canadian Eskimo Arts Council.

Alternative Title

Estampe inuit.

Subject

• Inuit prints > Canada > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Inuit prints > Canada > Exhibitions
• Prints > 20th century > Canada > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Text in English and French.
• DSS Cat. no. NM 92-58/1977

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 266.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0660000822

LCCN

^^^79315111^//r932

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library