Cape Dorset Prints: A Retrospective: Fifty Years of Printmaking at the Kinngait Studios

by Leslie Boyd Ryan

Tells the story of the history of the printmaking community of Cape Dorset.

Genres: Art

304 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2007

Reviews

[Ken · Rating 5 out of 5]

Essays describing the history of the print making studios at Cape Dorset, Nunavut, the most important of the Inuit artistic collectives. Surveys cover the range of styles of the most important artists, the influence of outside contact on this stylistic evolution, particularly with respect to changes in widening the range and sophistication of print making techniques. Valuable documentation of probably the most prolific and important of Canada's three major indigenous artistic traditions (NorthWest Coast and Woodlands being the other two). Well ilustrated by a range of full colour plates reproducing the work of a wide range of the community's artists. A book to love.

[Tricia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Studied the prints and read an essay or two; need to read them more thoroughly. It was interesting to see how the subject matter changed over the years, in part because the lifestyle changed from nomadic (?) to settled.