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The Group of Seven in western Canada
Par Catharine M Mastin. 2002
In 1920, when the Group of Seven was founded, free rail passes were still available to Canadian artists so they…
would make images that would familiarize Eastern Canadians with the West - and almost all of the Group's members used the perk. Commentary by six Canadian scholars and curators explores the deep importance of the West for the artists and their work. Includes insights into A.Y. Jackson and Edwin Holgate's interpretations - and misinterpretations - of the Skeena people, and Frederick Varley's troubled relationships with his wife and lovers. Some descriptions of sex. 2002.Leonardo da Vinci
Par Walter Isaacson. 2017
Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Isaacson weaves a…
narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo's genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy. He produced the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and technology. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. His ability to stand at the crossroads of the humanities and the sciences, made iconic by his drawing of Vitruvian Man, made him history's most creative genius. Bestseller. 2017.Gainsborough: a portrait
Par James Hamilton. 2017
Thomas Gainsborough was a gentle and empathetic family man, but had a volatility that could lead him to slash his…
paintings, and a loose libidinous way of speaking, writing and behaving that shocked many deeply. James Hamilton reveals Gainsborough in his many contexts: the easy-going Suffolk lad; the rake-on-the-make in London; and the top society-portrait painter. 2017.Wild and woolly: tails from a woodland studio
Par Linda Johns. 2000
Linda Johns, a full-time painter and sculptor, has opened her heart and the doors of her woodland home and studio…
in rural Nova Scotia to a constant stream of stray and wounded creatures - some of them have moved in permanently. In "Wild and Woolly", she records a year lived in harmony with the seasons and - not always harmoniously - with her many furred and feathered companions. 2000.We were brothers: a memoir (Southern voices)
Par Barry Moser. 2016
Brothers Barry and Tommy Moser were born of the same parents in Chattanooga, Tennessee, slept in the same bedroom, went…
to the same school, and were both poisoned by their family's deep racism and anti-Semitism. But as they grew older, their perspectives and their paths grew further and further apart. The brothers began to think so differently that they could no longer find common ground. After one particularly fractious conversation when Barry was in his late fifties and Tommy was in his early sixties, their fragile relationship fell apart. With the raw emotions that so often surface when we talk of our siblings, Barry recalls how they were finally able to traverse that great divide and reconcile their troubled brotherhood before it was too late. 2016.Vermeer's hat: the seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world
Par Timothy Brook. 2008
A painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl, while in another, a…
woman at a window weighs pieces of silver. These pictures offer a remarkable view of a rapidly expanding world. Moving outward from Vermeer's studio, Brook traces the web of trade that was spreading across the globe, and shows how the urge to acquire foreign goods was refashioning the world more powerfully than we have yet understood. Explicit descriptions of violence. c2008.Vegetables and bush fruits (Cullen garden guides)
Par Mark Cullen. 1985
Provides information on preparing and planting a garden, the tools and materials required, as well as detailed information on 21…
vegetables and 8 bush fruits. Includes a chapter on gardening with children. (Cullen Canadian garden guide)Une femme
Par Anne Delbée. 1982
Pour la première fois, un livre nous révèle la vie extraordinaire de Camille Claudel. Soeur ainée de l'écrivain Paul Claudel,…
Camille a connu, en tant que femme et en tant qu'artiste (sculpteur), un destin hors du commun. 1982.Une histoire des fleurs: entre nature et culture
Par Valérie Chansigaud. 2014
" Les fleurs nous accompagnent dans toutes les étapes de notre vie aussi bien dans les moments heureux que malheureux,…
dans notre intimité comme dans notre vie sociale. Elles sont tellement omniprésentes que l'on a oublié qu'elles avaient aussi une histoire. Ce livre, en se basant sur une riche iconographie, retrace les multiples liens culturels qui nous unissent au monde des fleurs et nous invite à nous interroger sur ces relations. Depuis quand date notre passion pour les fleurs ? Que nous racontent les fleurs dans l'art ? Fleurs de riches ou fleurs de pauvres ? Les fleurs rendent-elles heureux ? Cet amour des fleurs n'est cependant pas sans conséquences et l'on peut s'interroger sur son coût écologique, sur les causes de la disparition de certaines fleurs et sur la naturalité de nos jardins. La démarche originale de ce livre nous conduit à reconsidérer cette histoire entre nature et culture et à nous poser des questions parfois insolites. Y avait-il des fleurs au paradis terrestre ? La plus belle des fleurs n'est-elle pas artificielle ? Y aura-t-il encore des fleurs demain ? " -- 4e de couv.Une histoire du monde sans sortir de chez moi
Par Bill Bryson, Hélène Hinfray. 2014
" Si l'Américain Bill Bryson nous a déjà régalés de désopilantes chroniques sur ses compatriotes, c'est dans un vieux presbytère…
anglais qu'il a élu domicile. Mais au lieu de s'y reposer après avoir aussi exploré l'univers (Une histoire de tout, ou presque), il découvre que beaucoup d'événements qui se sont produits sur Terre depuis au moins deux siècles se retrouvent sous forme d'objets et de rituels dans notre intérieur. Il entreprend alors un Grand Tour à l'échelle d'une maison pour raconter de pièce en pièce l'aventure du génie humain. Au fil de cette histoire humoristique et sérieuse de l'envers du décor, vous croiserez des personnages aussi différents que Virginia Woolf (qui n'aimait pas sa bonne) et Karl Marx (qui couchait avec la sienne). Vous saurez tout sur l'invention de la tapette à souris et la construction de la tour Eiffel ; vous pénétrerez dans d'immenses châteaux, mais aussi dans votre matelas, que squattent deux millions d'acariens ; et puis vous comprendrez que sans les water-closets à chasse d'eau il n'y aurait pas eu de révolution industrielle. " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: At home : a short history of private life.Tout pour être heureuse
Par Priscille Deborah, Julia Pavlowitch-Beck, Élise Bergeron. 2015
" Comment se donner le droit d'exister quand son frère de neuf ans vient de mourir d'une maladie incurable? Prisonnière…
de ce drame familial, Priscille Deborah peine à donner un sens à sa vie. Longtemps, elle se refuse au bonheur. Jeune mariée et professionnelle brillante, elle est rattrapée par la dépression. L'amour des siens n'y peut rien: à bout de forces, elle se jette devant le métro. Sauvée par miracle, elle se réveille sur un lit d'hôpital amputée des deux jambes et d'un bras. Elle est un bloc de désespoir, d'amertume et de honte. Son salut vient de plusieurs rencontres. Elle retrouve la force de vivre, cesse de sauver les apparences, solde les comptes du passé et renoue avec sa passion de toujours: la peinture. En quelques années, elle devient une artiste exposée dans le monde entier. Aujourd'hui, avec son compagnon et ses deux filles, Priscille Deborah a enfin trouvé le bonheur. Oui, chaque heure est une lutte acharnée contre le handicap. Mais Tout pour être heureuse témoigne d'une incroyable histoire de résilience, de création et d'amour. Je suis tombée amoureuse de la vie. "There is a season: a memoir in a garden
Par Patrick Lane. 2004
Lane is not only an accomplished writer, he is also an avid gardener; and he is an alcoholic. In 1999,…
he went into rehab, then returned to his beloved garden, shaky but alive. For a year, he stayed close to home, gardening and slowly retrieving himself from the grip of alcohol and drug dependency. This is his account of that first year. 2004.The voice that challenged a nation: Marian Anderson and the struggle for equal rights
Par Russell Freedman. 2005
In the 1930s, black singer Marian Anderson was not allowed to perform at Constitution Hall. But with help from Eleanor…
Roosevelt, Anderson staged an amazing concert at the Lincoln Memorial and became an activist for civil rights. Junior High. 2005.The unknown Matisse: a life of Henri Matisse: the early years, 1869-1908
Par Hilary Spurling. 2001
Hilary Spurling presents an account of Matisse's early life, from his beginnings as the son of shopkeepers in Flanders through…
his impoverished days as a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Tracing Matisse's life through his thirties, Spurling describes how the artist's stubborn northern temperament helped sustain him through many challenges, both artistic and financial, as he found his way as a painter. 2001.The tightwad gazette: promoting thrift as a viable alternative lifestyle
Par Amy Dacyczyn. 1992
The shameful life of Salvador Dalí
Par Ian Gibson. 1998
Biography of the twentieth-century surrealist Spanish painter. Gibson describes Dalí's escapades in Europe, New York, and Hollywood. Explores his confused…
sexual relationships with poet García Lorca and others, and the role of the painter's superstitious wife, Gala. Examines Dalí's major accomplishments, all achieved before age forty; summarizes events preceding his death in 1989. 1998.The self-sufficient gardener: a complete guide to growing and preserving all your own food
Par John Seymour. 1978
The scented garden: creating fragrance beauty in the home and the garden with a rich diversity of plants and flowers
Par David Squire, Jane Newdick. 1988
Ponds, herbaceous borders, rockeries and window boxes, any garden area in fact can be enriched by perfume and a wealth…
of scented plants can also be grown indoors. The authors write about plants for every season and for all types of gardens and include many anecdotes about fragrant plants, some of which are associated with stories that have been woven into history. c1988.The scented garden
Par Rosemary Verey. 1981
All too often a garden is only a show-piece for colour and shape: without that extra dimension of perfume it…
loses its soul. In this book the author presents over a thousand plants which she finds best able to provide a framework for a fragrant garden, how to grow them and how to bring their flavours indoors. A bonus is the rediscovery of plants that have been grown and used in the past in Egypt and Rome, through the Middle Ages and Tudor England to the Victorians. 1981.