Biography & Autobiography, Artists, Architects, Photographers
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Dancing with Rejection: A Beginner's Guide to Immortality
by Michael R. Gaudet
In 1979, at age 19, Michael Gaudet was diagnosed with end-stage renal failure. Thanks to a kidney transplant from his brother, Michael survived and later rose to prominence as a Canadian painter of monumental murals. Dancing With Rejection: A...
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Johannes Vermeer—Provocateur
Risk and Courage in Dissent by Neil Thomas Proto
The 17th century. Delft. Working within the mythic “Dutch Golden Age,” Johannes Vermeer mastered light, color, and intimate settings. Award-winning author Neil Thomas Proto throws off that limiting mask, weaving the documented strands of terror,...
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John Mills Van Osdel, Architect, and his Chicago
The Story of His Life, 1811 to 1891 by Burtram Collver Hopkins II
There is no question that Chicago is an architecturally significant city. But before Louis Henry Sullivan, John Wellborn Root, and Frank Lloyd Wright, before modernism, there lived a man whose designs built it from the ground up. Written by his...
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Art Attitude - The Random Thoughts of RFM McInnis
A Sort of Autobiography by RFM McInnis
The fact that I paint what is perceived as subject matter is beside the point. For me, subject matter is only an excuse to observe abstract organic shapes and patterns where they exist in nature and push their shape-space relationships to the...
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Animate Universe
Lesley Sirluck: A Life in Art by Katherine Sirluck
When it comes to the role played by Canadian women artists in the first half of the 20th century, there is a glaring hole in our documented history. The memory of one artist now reaches up from the backwaters of domestic life. Lesley McNaught...
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Not White Enough
How Victorian Racism Contributed to the Destruction of a Photographic Genius by Muriel J Morris
She’s sixteen, shunned, isolated and possibly pregnant. This is Marie who thought she had the world by the tail a few months ago. She had married a handsome, professional European man who adored her. She is Eurasian, but her European status in...
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Go With Me on This
by Troy 'Stevens' Schaab
Growing up in rural Saskatchewan, Troy Schaab’s life focused on hockey and the farm—though his true love was music. Spending the last two years of high school in North Battleford to play hockey, he soon realized that his dream of becoming a heavy...
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The Art of Carol Janeway
A Tile & Ceramics Career with Georg Jensen Inc. and Ossip Zadkine in 1940s Manhattan by Victoria Jenssen
The Art of Carol Janeway portrays the exotic life and artistic career of a woman whose commercial success as a tile decorator and ceramist in New York in the 1940s and later retirement due to lead poisoning offer a fascinating study. Victoria...
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Prudence Heward
Canadian Modernist Painter by Evelyn Walters
At a time of disdain for modern art and widespread discrimination against women artists, Prudence Heward challenged the conventional in portraits that capture subtleties of emotion and often reflect her own struggles against illness and family...
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Mother, the Verb, Swan Sister Treasure Book
by Linda Rogers
Mother, the Verb is a collection of work by established and aspirant artists, mostly women, but a few alliies, who serve the idea of One Human Family in their work. Some, like Heather Spears who drew and reported about the children of the...
