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- Frida Kahlo / by Judah, Hettie,author.; Kahlo, Frida.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index.Step into the world of Frida Kahlo: behind the portraits and the surrealist art discover the fascinating woman who has transfixed the world. Fridamania has made Frida Kahlo's image ubiquitous: she has been reborn as a Halloween costume, Barbie doll, children's book character, textile print, phone cover and the inspiration for everything from cocktails to fashion shoots. But it is more difficult to get a clear vision of this bold and brilliant, foul-mouthed, heavy-drinking, hard-smoking, husband-stealing, occasionally bisexual, often bed-bound, wheelchair-using, needy, forthright and passionate woman. Hettie Judah sets out to correct that with this superb biography of one of the most charismatic artists of the last hundred years. Follow Frida's life through tumultuous love and life-altering accidents, towards recognition in the art world from the likes of Andre Breton and Marcel Duchamp, to becoming the first Mexican artist held at the Louvre. Judah delves into Kahlo's experiences and how these came together to inspire the art that has been described as an uncompromising depiction of the female experience and form. From an early battle with Polio, to a debilitating bus accident at 18, through love and heart ache, the life of Frida Kahlo was one of pain but a pain that bore great beauty.
- Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Kahlo, Frida.; Painters; Women artists; Women painters;
- Tom Thomson : the silence and the storm / by Silcox, David P.,1937-; Thomson, Tom,1877-1917.; Town, Harold,1924-1990.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index.An extensive collection of the work of Tom Thomson, considered by many to be the most important artist in Canadian history. The accompanying text provides aesthetic commentary and a full biography.LSC
- Subjects: Thomson, Tom, 1877-1917.; Painters; Landscape painters; Landscape painting, Canadian.; Landscape painting; Painting, Modern;
- The art of Emily Carr / by Shadbolt, Doris,1918-; Carr, Emily,1871-1945.;
- Bibliography: p. 222-223.
- Subjects: Carr, Emily, 1871-1945.; Painters;
- © c1979., Douglas and McIntyre,
- Emily Carr / by DeSoto, Lewis;
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subjects: Carr, Emily, 1871-1945; Painters;
- © c2008., Penguin Canada/Penguin Group,
- David Milne : an introduction to his life and art / by Silcox, David P.,1937-;
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 63) and index.
- Subjects: Milne, David, 1882-1953.; Painters;
- © 2005., Firefly Books,
- Lawren Harris : an introduction to his life and art / by Murray, Joan;
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 61) and index.
- Subjects: Harris, Lawren, 1885-1970; Painters;
- © 2003., Firefly,
- Mary Pratt : a love affair with vision / by Koval, Anne,author.; Pratt, Mary,1935-2018.Paintings.Selections.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index.Mary Pratts art has captivated millions of Canadians with her luminescent paintings that capture reality in a way that few artists have been able to achieve. This in-depth study of Pratts life and work explores the complex issues of gender, feminism, and realism in Canadian art, resulting in a richly layered biography of an artist who redefined the visual culture of her period and whose art and life intersect in varied and surprising ways.
- Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Pratt, Mary, 1935-2018.; Painters;
- Killing Commendatore / by Murakami, Haruki,1949-author.; Goossen, Theodore William,1948-translator.; Gabriel, Philip,1953-translator.; translation of:Murakami, Haruki,1949-Kishidancho goroshi.English.;
- "A publishing event: a major new, epic novel from the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of 1Q84 and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. An unnamed thirty-something portrait painter, abandoned by his wife, becomes caretaker of the home of an aging famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When the younger man discovers an unknown painting in the attic, entitled "Killing Commendatore"--a painting that takes its cues from Mozart's opera Don Giovanni--he also discovers clues about Amada, his family and their involvement in a violent and failed plot to kill a Nazi leader in Vienna. As the painter slowly learns the truth, he is equally consumed by the story of a wealthy and mysterious neighbor, Menshiki, in what is, according to the author, a clear homage to The Great Gatsby. The painter becomes obsessed with Menshiki's doomed love affair, the young girl who might be his child and a stone-lined underground space in the nearby woods where Buddhist priests were once buried alive. This pit becomes a portal into another world, a surreal place where the figures from "Killing Commendatore" take form to guide our narrator on an epic journey. Ambitious and haunting, tactile and surreal, preoccupied with questions about trauma, art and the creative process, Killing Commendatore moves between the known world and a complex underworld."--
- Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Portrait painters; Painting, Japanese;
- Van Gogh / by Spence, David.;
- Includes index.
- Subjects: Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890.; Painters;
- © c2010., Ticktock,
- At eternity's gate [videorecording] / by Amalric, Mathieu,1965-actor.; Arestrup, Niels,actor.; Carrière, Jean-Claude,1931-screenwriter.; Casar, Amira,actor.; Consigny, Anne,actor.; Dafoe, Willem,actor.; Friend, Rupert,actor.; Isaac, Oscar,actor.; Kilik, Jon,film producer.; Kugelberg, Louise,screenwriter,editor of moving image work.; Mikkelsen, Mads,1965-actor.; Perez, Vincent,1964-actor.; Schnabel, Julian,1951-film director,screenwriter,editor of moving image work.; Seigner, Emmanuelle,actor.; CBS Films,production company.; Elevation Pictures.; Iconoclast Films (France),production company.; Rahway Road Productions,production company.; Riverstone Pictures (Firm),production company.; Rocket Science (Firm),production company.; SPK Pictures,production company.;
- Music, Tatiana Lisovskava ; costume design, Karen Muller-Serreau ; production design, Stéphane Cressend ; editor, Louis Kugelberg, Julian Schnabel ; director of photography, Benoit Delhomme.Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac, Mads Mikkelsen, Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Niels Arestrup, Anne Consigny, Amira Casar, Vincent Perez.Drawing upon actual correspondence left by Vincent Van Gogh--and a compelling central performance from Willem Dafoe--director Julian Schnabel delivered an evocative and dreamlike look into the tormented artist's troubled psyche during his turbulent final years in the South of France.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13; for some thematic content.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Fiction films.; Feature films.; Biographical films.; Historical films.; Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890; Painters;
- For private home use only.
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