ART, SIGHT AND LANGUAGE: A READING/WRITING OF SOME CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN ART Asheleigh Moorhouse Kapuskasing (Ont.), Penumbra Press, 1989.173pp, paper, $21.95 ISBN 0-921254-05-9 Post-secondary/Adult Reviewed by Walter Kalyn. Volume 17 Number 5 1989 September The author sets out to prove the theory that "in order to speak about works of art we need to consider both the subject who makes art and the subject who looks at it, with the awareness that these two subjects might actually coincide in the artist him self/hers elf, but might also come together as an illusion of oneness in the mind of the viewer who stands in the artist's place. We must also consider the use of language activated in the process of viewing art." The first part of the book is dedi­cated to a discussion of this theory. Moorhouse then develops this theory in a study of the works of six contem­porary Canadian artists - Sheilagh Alexander, Janice Burney, Rae Johnson, Joanne Tod, Jeff Wall, and Shirley Wiitasalo. Why these artists were chosen is not clear except for the cryptic statement that "they were chosen for much more practical and even personal reasons." Although some art teachers might find it interesting, the content of this book is not likely to be of interest to a school student. The one criticism that I have is the striking lack of colour illustrations. The author does refer to the use of colour in the works being discussed but I guess it is up lo the imagination of the reader to interpret this from the exclusively black-and-cream (and not too good at that) illustrations. Walter Kalyn, Thorn Collegiate Library, Regina, Sask.