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Exhibition Catalogues of InterestTIBET: CULTURE ON THE EDGE showcases American photographer Phil Borges’sshocking and beautiful new pictures of Tibet. They reveal the rapid growth of Chinesedevelopment and expansion; changes in the lifestyles of the Tibetan people,including the adoption of cell phones by the nomads; the effects of climatechange; and the deeply devotional practices of monks and pilgrims. Produced 15years after Borges’s first visit to Tibet, the large-format book shares intimate portraitsand stunning panoramas of one of the most remote places on the planet.Hardcover, 208 pages, $45 CAD. Available from http://dianefarrisgallery.com/booksdvds/phil-borges-books or 604-737-2629LESLEY DILL’S POETIC VISIONS: FROM SHIMMER TO SISTER GERTRUDEMORGAN was published by the Whatcom Museum in Bellingham for their currentshow by New York artist Lesley Dill (on view through March 4, 2012).Known for her inventive approach to multi-disciplinary artwork, the intersectionof visual art, language, sculpture and the body are central themes in Dill’s work.Curator Barbara Matilsky provides sensitive interpretations and an insightfulcontext for Dill’s pieces, and the publication features full-colour plates representingthe majority of exhibited artworks.Softcover, 48 pages, $15 USD. Available from the Whatcom Museum, 360-778-8930THROWN: BRITISH COLUMBIA’S APPRENTICES OF BERNARD LEACH ANDTHEIR CONTEMPORARIES was published by the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery.The 2004 exhibition, curated by Scott Watson, included 600 pots as well asarchival materials on the West Coast studio pottery movement during the 1960s.The exhibit and book position the work of BC artists in the context of an internationalstudio movement, with emphasis on the pottery of Wayne Ngan, MichaelHenry, Ian Steele, Charmian Johnson, John Reeve and Tam Irving among others.Hardcover, 304 pages, $60 CAD. Available from the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery,UBC, 604-822-2759 or belkin.gallery@ubc.caGABRIEL VON MAX was published to accompany the recent Frye Art Museumexhibition Gabriel von Max: Be-tailed Cousins and Phantasms of the Soul. Anesteemed and controversial late-19th-century Munich Secessionist, von Maxexplored themes of death, natural science, and the occult in narrative paintingsthat are macabre yet hauntingly beautiful. This first monograph on the artist toappear in English includes essays by leading European scholars as well as FryeDirector Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, curator of the exhibition.Hardcover, 128 pages, $30 USD. Available from the Frye Art Museum, 206-432-8201 orstore@fryemuseum.orgROBERT YOUNG: LACUNARIAN PICTURING was published as part of a collaborativeproject involving exhibitions held at the Evergreen Cultural Centre inCoquitlam and Burnaby’s Simon Fraser University Gallery this past June.Young’s painting practice has focused on the pictorial manipulation of space inimages that have been variously described as Cubist, Surrealist, collage-like,optical and perceptual structures. Curated by Astrid Heyerdahl (ECC) and Bill Jeffries(SFU), the retrospective exhibits explored Young’s paintings and their inspirationsfrom the 1970s to present.Softcover, 48 pages, $20 CAD. Available from the SFU Gallery, 778-782-4266 orgallery@sfu.ca and from the Evergreen Cultural Centre, 605-927-6565 or info@evergreenculturalcentre.caPlease note: Prices may be subject to additional charges for postage, handling and taxes.www.preview-art.com PREVIEW 85