Publications

The Confederation Centre Art Gallery produces a wide variety of bilingual publications highlighting works from its collection and current exhibitions. Individuals may purchase our publications at the gallery or through our distributor:

ABC ArtBooks Canada
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Allan Harding MacKay: Observing the Observer

The catalogue highlights the four-decades-long career of a P.E.I.-born artist who continues to make significant contributions to Canadian culture. MacKay's career is marked by a consistent commitment to critical observation, and his focus has ranged from deeply personal portraits to difficult public engagements in the war-torn states of Somalia and Afghanistan. In his blending of 1960s conceptual practice, and a traditional, tactile studio approach, MacKay conveys an intellectually rigorous yet passionately felt understanding of the complex dynamics of the intimate, the social and the political.

His 2008 exhibition at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery featured work drawn from key periods in his life and over the past twenty years. The pdf catalogue includes an essay by guest curator Andrew Hunter, an interview-dialogue between MacKay and Calgary artist John Will, and reflections from the artist's daughter, Simone Esther MacKay.
To download the Allan Harding MacKay catalogue please Click Here

Steve Higgins, All Things Considered: thoughts about cities and history, war and peace
Author: Ihor Holubizky, Jeanne Randolph, Liz Wylie, Peter Dykhuis, and Cliff Eyland
Date: 2011
Description: 59 pages, colour and black and white
Price: $9.95
ISBN: 978-0-920089-71-2
Elaine Harrison: I am an island that dreams
Author: Jane Ledwell, Kevin Rice and Douglas Sobey
Date: 2011
Description: 60 pages, colour
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-894838-63-4`
Funkaesthetics
Author: Pan Wendt, Luis Jacob and Adrian Piper
Date: 2009
Description: 128 pages, colour and black and white
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-7727-6075-3
Colleen Wolstenholme: Sugar & Spice
Author: Pan Wendt, Ray Cronin and Jeanne Randolph
Date: 2008
Description: 48 pages, colour
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-920089-69-9
Common Threads
Author: Introduction by Alexandra Keim, contributions from Lee Plested, Wayne Baerwaldt, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Matthew Higgs, Instant Coffee, Cate Rimmer and Jennifer Strate O'Neal,
Date: 2008
Description: accordion leaf publication, hand wrapped with 24 images
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-920089-67-5
These stones-this sea, dreaming: Paintings by Donald Andrus
Author: Pan Wendt and Alexandra Keim
Date: 2006
Description: 32 pages, colour and black and white
Price: $6.95
ISBN: 0-920089-65-8
Dark Matter: The great War and Fading Memory
Author: Andrew Hunter
Date: 2006
Description: 137 pages, colour and black and white
Price: $9.95
Water Flowing to the Sea Captured at the Speed of Light: Marlene Creates
Author: Ted Rettig
Date: 2005
Description: 31 pages, colour
Price: $4.95
ISBN: 0-920089-61-5
Thaddeus Holownia, Station: Irving Architectural Landscapes
Author: Shauna McCabe and Annmarie Adams
Date: 2005
Description: 55 pages, black and white
Price: $6.95
ISBN: 0-920089-63-1
From Our Land: The Expo 67 Canadian Craft Collection
Author: Lee Plested
Date: 2004
Description: 72 pages, colour
Price: $9.95
ISBN: 0-920089-59-3
To A Watery Grave
Author: Andrew Hunter
Date: 2004
Description: 99 pages, black and white
Price: $9.95
ISBN: 0-920089-57-7
Beauty Queens
Author: Lisa Baldissera, Shauna McCabe and Bruce Johnson
Date: 2004
Description: 110 pages, colour
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 0-88885-218-5
Littoral Documents
Author: Shauna McCabe, Harold Williams and Hermenegilde Chiasson
Date: 2004
Description: 58 pages, colour and black and white
Price: $9.95
ISBN: 0-920089-55-0
Between Earth & Sky (in knowing one, one will know the other): Geoffrey Hendricks
Author: Shauna McCabe, Wayne Baerwaldt and Geoffrey Hendricks
Date: 2003
Description: 59 pages, colour
Price: $9.95
ISBN: 0-920089-51-8
The Donnelly Project
Author: Andrew Hunter
Date: 2002
Description: 30 pages, colour and black and white
Price: $6.95
ISBN: 1-895800-79-X
Bliss
Author: Shauna McCabe
Date: 2002
Description: 32 pages, colour and black and white
Price: $6.95
ISBN: 0-920089-47-X
Timepiece: Hilda Woolnough
Author: Linda Rae Dornan
Date: 2001
Description: 54 pages, colour and black and white
Price: $6.95
ISBN: 0-920089-90-9
E. Nancy Stevens: In Transit
Author: Gil McElroy
Date: 2001
Description: 30 pages, colour
Price: $6.95
ISBN: 0-920089-88-7
The Narrative Landscapes of A.L. Morrison
Author: Shauna McCabe
Date: 2000
Description: 101 pages, colour and black and white
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 0-920089-86-0
Henry Purdy: Freedom Comes Inside Out
Author: Ted Fraser
Date: 2000
Description: 44 pages, colour and black and white
Price: $6.95
ISBN: 0-920089-88-7
The Garrison Mentality: Art & The Military In The Maritimes, 1837-1871
Author: Edward MacDonald and Mark Holton
Date: 2000
Description: 20 pages, colour and black and white, 5 detached colour prints
Price: $6.95
ISBN: 0-920089-76-3
Desire: Greg Forrest, Lauren Schaffer, Colleen Wolstenholme
Author: Ray Cronin
Date: 2000
Description: 32 pages, colour and black and white
Price: $4.95
ISBN: 0-920089-82-8
St. Art: The Visual Poetry of bpNichol
Author: Gil McElroy, Paul Dutton and Barbara Caruso
Date: 2000
Description: 79 pages, black and white
Price: $9.95
ISBN: 0-920089-84-4
Gerald Beaulieu: X-Ray Specs
Author: Gil McElroy
Date: 2000
Description: 27 pages, colour and black and white
Price: $4.95
ISBN: 0-920089-80-1
There are no limits: The Work of Hermenegilde Chiasson
Author: Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Raoul Boudreau and Alain Masson
Date: 1999
Description: 175 pages, colour and black and white
Price: $6.95
ISBN: 0-920089-74-7
George Ackermann (1803-1891): Brave New Worlds
Author: Ted Fraser and John Ford
Date: 1999
Description: 71 pages, colour and black and white
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 0-920089-70-4
Taxonomies: New Drawings by Susan Wood
Author: Gil McElroy
Date: 1999
Description: 12 pages, colour and black and white
Price: $4.95
ISBN: 0-920089-72-0
Erica Rutherford: The Human Comedy
Author: Ray Cronin, Irene Gammel and J. Paul Boudreau
Date: 1998
Description: 47 pages, colour and black and white
Price: $4.95
ISBN: 0-920089-60-7
Six inventions: Paul Edouard Bourque
Author: Roslyn Rosenfeld
Date: 1997
Description: 24 pages, colour and black and white
Price: $1.95
ISBN: 0-920084-56-9
Mister Man: Paintings by Brian Burke
Author: Terry Graff, Sheri McBride
Date: 1996
Description: 34 pages, colour
Price: $6.95
ISBN: 0-920089-50-X
Yvon Gallant: Based on a True Story
Author: Terry Graff
Date: 1995
Description: 177 pages, colour and black and white
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 2-7600-0285-3
David Askevold: Cultural Geographies and Other Works
Author: Terry Graff, Petra Rigby Watson, Mike Kelley, Cliff Eyland and David Askevold
Date: 1995
Description: 86 pages, black and white
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 0-920089-526
Gothic Dreams: The Architecture of William Critchlow Harris, 1854-1913
Author: Robert C. Tuck
Date: 1986
Description: 150 pages, colour and black and white
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 0-920089-41-0