About this Publication

Curator of Inuit art at the Art Gallery of Ontario from 1988 to 1994, Norman Zepp began collecting Inuit sculpture while still an undergraduate at the University of Saskatchewan in the late 1960s. Over the next three decades, Zepp, together with his partner Judith Varga, went on to assemble one of the country’s most important and unusual private collections of Arctic art. The pair’s recent decision to part with their collection was coupled with a desire to share it with a wider audience and preserve it in book form for posterity.

With over a hundred colour reproductions of sculptures and wallhangings representing a variety of artists and regions, Vision and Form does more than document an extraordinary collection of northern art. In a series of short essays, curator Robert Kardosh offers insightful descriptions of the artworks while providing readers with a sense of the unique cultural and art-historical context from which they have come. And in an informative introduction, Kardosh discusses the collection in relation to the collectors, briefly addressing the current debate over the place of connoisseurship and the role of southern institutions generally with respect to contemporary Inuit art.

The book concludes with an afterword by Zepp in which the collector and former AGO curator recollects his travels throughout the North and his encounters with many of the artists he has admired over the years, generously illustrated with remarkable photographs of the artists in their homes and workspaces.

Gallery Information

MARION SCOTT GALLERY
2423 GRANVILLE STREET
VANCOUVER, BC CANADA V6H 3G5
TEL: 604.685.1934
FAX: 604.685.1890
ART@MARIONSCOTTGALLERY.COM