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Design Category
Book design, 1973
Art director/designer
Fritz Gottschalk
Collection
(1974) Fifty Books of the Year

Description

Canada’s Indian artist is faced with a decision: should he accept his own culture, or assimilate into Western culture? The book examines the forces, past and present, which affect the artist today and will also profoundly affect his future.

The book, produced to inform the general public, was heavily subsidized by the Federal Government to keep the selling price down. Overall budget was approximately $40,000. It’s first edition (9,000 in English; 3,000 in French) was very quickly sold out.

Credits
Photographers: Rude Haas, others
Picture editor: Fritz Gottschalk
Production coordinator: Eric Plumer
Editor: Tom Hill
Author: Olive Patricia Dickason
Size: 11.25 x 11 inches
Pages: 144
Quantity printed: edition of 12,000
Price: $6.00
Typeface: Monotype Univers 55, 12/14, with display in Univers 75
Typesetter: Fast Typesetters of Canada Ltd.
Color separator: Techno-colour Company, Inc.
Plate maker: Litho Plate
Printer: Simpson Press
Printing method: offset
Paper: Luxa Gloss (Domtar), White
Paper supplies: Federal Paper Ltd.
Binder: Harpell’s Press Co-operative
Binding materials: bound in pre-printed Luxa Gloss on 80 pt. binder’s board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, square back
Endpapers: Rolland Offset (Domtar)
Endpaper supplies: Federal
Publisher: Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)