48 — Wednesday, November 21 , 1990 ~ North Shore News

‘Tis the season for new coffee table books

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ERE'S A sobering thought: if the feds manage to
steamroller over the Senate (and public opinion)
and enact the GST, this may well be the last

Christmas that Canadians are able to avoid paying sales tax

on books.

To make the most of this state of
affairs, this week and next we'll be
taking a brief look at nearly two
dozen outstanding coffee table ti-
tles for adult giving and receiving.

To ensure that there's something
for everyone, the categories in-
clude: art, nature, the environ-
ment, fishing, gardening, cuisine,
history, travel, reference and
sports. Talk about covering the
bases...

ts there a decoy collector on
your list? If so, she or he is in fora
real treat Christmas morning when
and if The Great Book of
Wildfow! Decoys (Thunder Bay/
Abbeville Press; 320 pp.; $75)
slams down the chimney. And
that’s a major “‘if.”’

Because The Great Book of
Wildfowl Decoys is not only the
greatest compendium of Canadian
and American working decoys yet
to achieve lift-off but the largest.
This is roughly four kilograms of
splendid photography and text
covering the history of North
American decoy carving and the
carvers themselves.

Hurtig Publishers’ contribution

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“Evrry dish leaves the kitchen unth
my personal guarantee of excellence.”
Chef-Patron Bruce Milligan

Upstairs in the Atrium of the Yaletown Galleria
225-1080 Mainland St. Vancouver, B.C., V6B 2T4

Dinner
Tuesday thru Saturday

to the art book market has, not
unexpectedly, a Canadian theme:
Masterpieces of Canadian Art
From the National Gallery of
Canada (230 pp.; $49.95).
Author David Burnett provides
readers with what amounts to an
overview of Canadian art spanning
more than two centuries and the
works of neasly 90 artists.
Masterpieces of Canadian Art...
is nothing less than a catalogue of
our finest art and artists. The stark
and striking canvasses of Alex
Colville jostle the works of the
Group of Seven, Emily Carr and
even the abstract visions of Alfred
Pellan and Jean-Paul Riopelle.
But, beautiful though Adaster-
pieces of Canacian Ant... most
assuredly is, the best thing of all
from my untutored viewpoint is
the total absence of anything
pricey in vertical stripes.
Vancouver artist Michael
Kluckner has a new watercolor
collection out just in time for the

- Christmas season with Vanishing

Vancouver (Whitecap; 207 pp.;
$39.95).
This time around, Kluckner has

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book review

taken a crusading stance as he at-
tempts to galvanize readers to take
stock of the city’s vanishing archi-
tectural and neighborhood
features. He describes Vanishing
Vancouver {a magnificent coffer
table book, it should be said) as
“a tribute to the city’s lost
heritage — and a call to arms for
those concerned about what's
eft.”

Fans of Kluckner’s previous
megaprojects (Vancouver The
Way It Was and Toronto The Way

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Richmond and on Main street

It Was, both also from Whitecap
Books) will be extremely pleased
to see that Vanishing Vancouver is
executed in similar style: a com-
bination of Kluckner’s evocative
watercolors, historical
photographs (for a before-and-after
component) and the typically
well-researched history of each
subject.

One of the most anticipated
publishing events of the year is
that of B.C. artist Robert
Bateman’s latest book: An Artist
in Nature (Viking; 176 pp.; $60).

Bateman and writer Rick Ar-
chbold have taken a strong en-
vironmental stance, making this
book not only an expression of the
attist’s internationally acclaimed
talent but also a gloves-off declara-
tion of eco-consciousness.

This next book is a guaranteed
collector’s item, part art, part ref-
erence and totally delightful.

Royal City Antiques

A Treasury of Children’s
Books (Abbeville Press; 256 pp.;
$75) is an arnazing and unique
salute to the dawn of children’s
book publishing.

Taken from the Osborne collec-
tion, these early 19th century
classics have been reproduced so
that modern viewers are presented
with the same typefaces and
graphics as the origina} readers
were in, say, 1820.

Although one of the first
children’s books appeared in 1741
(Curiosities in the Tower of Lon-
don, oddly enough), the period
from 1800 to 1825 saw the prin-
ting of kids’ books described as
having “an alertness and grace
not achieved in any other period.’
The proof is in the viewing.

Rand McNally has just released
one of its most unusual atlases to

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