Curator & Collector

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Archive for July, 2010

Update to Reading Reid

Posted: Sunday, July 25th, 2010 @ 3:38 pm in Bill Reid, Canadians in the Arts, Northwest Coast Aboriginal Art | No Comments »

My second edition Shadbolt [see the preceding post] arrived some days ago, and I read the last chapter and admired all the photographs in it. The photographs are much better, for the most part: they are brighter and sharper than in the first edition. As far as I can see, the text in the bulk [...]

Reading Reid

Posted: Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 @ 8:15 pm in Bill Reid, Canadian Art, Northwest Coast Aboriginal Art, Personal, Reviews | No Comments »

In the last few months, I’ve used my lengthy commuting time to get a lot of reading done. Specifically, I’ve read several books about the aboriginal art of the northwest coast. They are, in the order I finished them: -Solitary Raven: The Essential Writings of Bill Reid, edited by Robert Bringhurst -The Raven Steals the [...]