The book cover for Form Follows Fiction: Art and Artists in Toronto by Black Dog Online showcases a striking image of hands holding colorful folding fans, beautifully reflecting the vibrant creativity of Toronto’s artists.
A two-page book spread from Form Follows Fiction: Art and Artists in Toronto (Black Dog Online) presents striking photographs of a tall building adorned with a geometric mural, including close-up balcony views. A concise text describes the mural and its creator, underscoring how Toronto art is energized by innovative public artworks—demonstrating how Form Follows Fiction inspires local artists to reimagine urban spaces through vibrant visual expression.
An open book from Black Dog Online, titled “Form Follows Fiction: Art and Artists in Toronto,” displays twelve black-and-white portrait drawings—six of children on the left and six of adults on the right, arranged in two rows—serving as a compelling example of Toronto art that reflects the exhibition’s theme of form following fiction through its thoughtful composition.
An open copy of Form Follows Fiction: Art and Artists in Toronto by Black Dog Online is shown with two pages visible, each featuring a mixed media artwork that blends vivid red abstract painting with printed text panels and small black-and-white illustrations—a striking reflection on how Toronto artists explore the notion that form follows fiction.

Form Follows Fiction: Art and Artists in Toronto

€41,95

Luis Jacob (Contributor)

Hardback, 28 × 23 cm | 11 × 9 in, 240 pages

ISBN 978-1-912165-27-8

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How do artists in Toronto visualise their sense of place? Are there particular ‘made-in-Toronto’ ways of thinking about the city?

With work selected by internationally renowned Toronto-based artist Luis Jacob, Form Follows Fiction: Art and Artists in Toronto considers the ways in which artists visualise Toronto, throughout a period of fifty years. Presenting a thematic clustering of works by 86 artists, the book is premised on the tendency of artists in the city to favour performative and allegorical procedures to articulate their sense of place.

Four gestures—mapping, modelling, performing and congregating—serve as guideposts to a diverse array of artistic practices. The book is a constellation of symbolic forms, or memes, that repeatedly appear in the work of artists of different generations; it presents a panorama of the blueprints that artists have drafted over many decades to give form to life in one of North America’s largest cities.