Cape Dorset Prints: A Retrospective
Subtitle: Fifty Years of Printmaking at the Kinngait Studios
Publisher: Pomegranate Communications; Pomegranate
Published: September 2007
Language: eng; iku
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780764941917
Subjects: Exhibition catalogues and specific collections; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Prints & printmaking; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Canada; Printmaking; Prints; Techniques - Printmaking; Cape Dorset; Inuit prints; Kinngait Studios (Cape Dorset, Nunavut); Nunavut
Description: In 1956 artist James Houston came to Cape Dorset as the northern service officer with the Canadian government's Department of Northern Affairs. One of his duties was to foster the production of carvings and other handicrafts by the Inuit residents. By 1959 the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative had been formed, laying the groundwork for a legendary printmaking tradition. Today the annual release of Cape Dorset prints, produced by the Co-operative's Kinngait Studios, is eagerly anticipated by collectors around the world. Cape Dorset Prints: A Retrospective is the first book to tell the full story of this historic printmaking community. - Publisher.