A writer, gallerist, educator, museum director, and leading member of the arts community of London, Ontario, from the late 1960s to the 1990s. Through Nancy Poole’s Studio—her gallery in London and an [..]

A Paris-based ballet company formed by the Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev in 1909. Part of France’s early twentieth-century avant-garde, Ballets Russes performed its first season in Paris; it lat [..]

A member of the Automatistes and a former student of its founder, Paul-Émile Borduas, at the École du meuble in Montreal. Barbeau alternated between a free approach in the Automatiste vein and paintin [..]

A pioneering anthropologist and ethnologist, Barbeau is considered the founder of folklore studies in Canada. Based at the National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, he studied French-Canadian and indigenous [..]

A major figure in twentieth-century intellectual history, Barthes was a semiotician, literary and social critic, philosopher, and essayist. Works such as Writing Degree Zero, 1953, and Mythologies, 19 [..]

A British illustrator who travelled extensively in North America from the 1830s to 1850s, making landscape drawings for various illustrated volumes. Bartlett contributed 120 drawings to Canadian Scene [..]

A type of sculpture in which the decorative motif projects slightly from the background plane. Bas-reliefs are common to exterior architectural design around the world. 

An architect and artist whose expressionistic paintings are held at major institutions across Canada. As a soldier with the British Territorial Army during the Second World War, Bates was captured in [..]

Open from 1919 to 1933 in Germany, the Bauhaus revolutionized twentieth-century visual arts education by integrating the fine arts, crafts, industrial design, and architecture. Teachers included Josef [..]

A seminal figure in the history of conceptual art in Canada. In 1966 he co-founded, with Ingrid Baxter, the N.E. Thing Co. conceptual artists’ collective, and that same year launched the gallery and t [..]