The Art Of P K Irwin

Author : Michèle Rackham Hall
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780889843950

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The Art of P. K. Irwin by Michèle Rackham Hall Pdf

At an early age, P. K. Page/Irwin displayed an aptitude for illustration, and even her juvenalia indicated a sharp, painterly eye. But it wasn’t until she visited Brazil in the 1950s as wife of the Canadian ambassador, that she began to hone her artistic practice. Under her married name, P. K. Irwin, she produced a wide array of paintings, drawings and other artworks, experimenting with media and styles as she sought to develop her own visual aesthetic, and to reconcile her celebrated poetic identity with her more private, painterly one. In The Art of P. K. Irwin, Michèle Rackham Hall investigates the artist’s creative development and examines the exotic locales and the wealth of accomplished peers who helped shape Irwin’s artistic output. With rich biographical detail and extensive reference to Irwin’s lyrical life writing, The Art of P. K. Irwin takes readers along on the artist’s journey toward her own aesthetic, one in which "place was her most potent muse, and exile her most fertile state."

Author : Sandra Djwa
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780773540613

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Journey with No Maps by Sandra Djwa Pdf

Poet, traveller, artist, and mystic - the story of one extraordinary woman's many lives.

Author : Patricia Kathleen Page
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0889841934

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The Hidden Room by Patricia Kathleen Page Pdf

`If not ``a shilling life'', a glance at Who's Who in Canada will give you all the facts. Which are more than impressive. P K Page, born in 1916 and very much with us is, in brief, a phenomenon; a force majeur in Canadian literary and artistic life; a National Treasure. Her work to date, sprung from the praiseworthy ambition of the lavishly gifted, bestows upon us rich decades of protean accomplishment, of widespread honour and renown. Let us however concern ourselves here with the essential fictions - with the beginning in delight and ending in wisdom, as Frost has it, of true poems; with this present testament of imaginative, intellectual and spiritual achievement: The Hidden Room: Collected Poems. `To immerse oneself in these two handsome volumes (elegantly complemented and informed throughout by the drawings and paintings of her ``twin sister, / beautiful as Euclid'', the painter P K Irwin) is to plunge into a deep-freighted, breaking wave of swirled delights and parlous undertows. It is, as with all such translucent ramparts of desire and abandon, best met head-on. This is not to say that one must read consecutively through the some four hundred and fifty pages of poetry and the one dangerous, liminal short story. The ordering of the volumes is credited to Stan Dragland, who ``tackled material spanning sixty years and threaded it together in a manner uniquely his own.'' While the overall drift is chronological, the poems have been so intelligently interwoven that each of the volumes is a realized entity, as each is a reflection of the whole.'

Author : Patricia Kathleen Page
Publisher : Key Porter Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015048719051

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Brazilian Journal by Patricia Kathleen Page Pdf

In 1957, P.K. Page travelled to Brazil as the wife of Canada's ambassador, Arthur Irwin. Her impressions and adventures are recounted in this diary, from the tropic lushness to the ponderous and mystifying official duties.

Author : Emily Carr
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547190189

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Klee Wyck by Emily Carr Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Klee Wyck" by Emily Carr. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Patricia Kathleen Page
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781122949774

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Coal and Roses by Patricia Kathleen Page Pdf

Coal and Roses is a collection of 21 intricately formal glosas, arranged to explore the endless possibilities of language. In this slim volume, P. K. Page offers the reader a wildly eclectic overview of the history of poetry, as well as a master class in the evolution of language as evidenced in the poet’s ‘communion’ with her attributed predecessors. Coal and Roses offers a collection of poems that stand by themselves as commentaries on many of the issues endemic to the varying times, places and circumstances of the aforementioned attributees. Life, death, a palpable need for belonging and the inevitable passage of time are all to be encountered, as one might expect in a work that ranges from the sort of trivial, light-hearted sympathy for the trials of day-to-day life to much weightier reflection on the probability of a greater existence. The use of the glosa form serves to emphasize both the continuity and the evolution of life, and of art. Included are twenty-one glosas, borrowing on the works of nineteen artists. Spanning numerous centuries, movements, genres and corners of the world, Page explores the works of Wallace Stevens, Theodore Roethke, Margaret Cavendish and Akhmatova amongst others. Coal and Roses is an exquisite work, respectful of the past and hopeful for the future.

Author : Lawrence Weschler
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781613129937

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Domestic Scenes: The Art of Ramiro Gomez by Lawrence Weschler Pdf

Award-winning author Lawrence Weschler’s book on the young Mexican American artist Ramiro Gomez explores questions of social equity and the chasms between cultures and classes in America. Gomez, born in 1986 in San Bernardino, California, to undocumented Mexican immigrant parents, bridges the divide between the affluent wealthy and their usually invisible domestic help—the nannies, gardeners, housecleaners, and others who make their lifestyles possible—by inserting images of these workers into sly pastiches of iconic David Hockney paintings, subtly doctoring glossy magazine ads, and subversively slotting life-size painted cardboard cutouts into real-life situations. Domestic Scenes engages with Gomez and his work, offering an inspiring vision of the purposes and possibilities of art.

Author : Patricia Kathleen Page
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781122949767

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The Essential P. K. Page by Patricia Kathleen Page Pdf

P. K. Page needs no introduction. This is a poet who writes in many genres and on an infinite number of subjects. The source of her poetry is always love -- whether in vivid portraits of her inner and outer landscapes; startling insights into the past, the present, the future; illumination of some tiny detail of ordinary life; or admonishments for our neglect of the earth and of each other. Page is an alchemist who turns language into pure gold, a magician who dazzles with sleight of mind. The Essential P. K. Page is perceptive, elegant, romantic (yet never sentimental), sometimes downright funny, wholly conscious.

Author : P. K. Page
Publisher : London, Ont. : Brick Books
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0919626807

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Hologram by P. K. Page Pdf

The glosa is an early Renaissance form, first developed by the poets of the Spanish court. In "Hologram, celebrated poet P.K. Page offers us fourteen of these elegant, intricate poems, each a homage to another poet. It is a stunning volume, of great range, depth, and technical mastery: a tribute not only to the writers represented in its pages, but also to the unsung art of reading, to which all who love literature are apprenticed. Above all, it is a tribute to life, and to the life of the planet which, more delicately than we had imagined, sustains us.

Author : Linda Rogers,Barbara Colebrook Peace
Publisher : Guernica Editions
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Women and literature
ISBN : 1550711342

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P.K. Page by Linda Rogers,Barbara Colebrook Peace Pdf

In 2001, the International Year of the Poet, P K Page's 'Planet Earth', based on lines by Pablo Neruda was sent into space by the United Nations. Poets, critics, and friends have contributed to this collection about her working life and reveal facets of this enigmatic writer whose glittering surfaces reconcile the mysteries within and without.

Author : P. K. Page
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780889844322

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Metamorphosis by P. K. Page Pdf

The impressive oeuvre of P. K. Page spans genres, formats and art forms, but through it all, the child and the childlike remain integral aspects of imagery and meaning. The verses, plays, fables and essays in Metamorphosis celebrate the child’s unique ability to look, to see, to fashion immense worlds out of the smallest of things; they affirm the importance of fun, nonsense and language play; and they seek to impart spiritual wisdom through rich, complex narratives whose lessons of transcendence and metamorphosis amuse and astonish young readers. In this sixth volume in the Collected Works of P. K. Page, editor Margaret Steffler explores Page’s diverse forays into the fantastical, dreamlike worlds of children’s literature, documenting Page’s ongoing efforts to recover the mysterious and elusive source of childhood. In so doing, she reveals the ways in which Page provides readers of all ages with the ability to throw open the doors between youth and adulthood, and to rediscover the imagination and vision of days gone by.

Author : Patricia Kathleen Page
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Canadian poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015000541113

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The Metal and the Flower by Patricia Kathleen Page Pdf

Author : Nathalie Prézeau
Publisher : Word-Of-Mouth Production
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 096844329X

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Toronto Street Art Strolls by Nathalie Prézeau Pdf

Toronto Street Art Strolls is a unique walking guide with self-guided maps to discover Toronto's best graffiti, murals and public art, with caf's and decadent places on the side.

Author : Douglas A. Irwin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 873 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226399010

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Clashing Over Commerce by Douglas A. Irwin Pdf

A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year: “Tells the history of American trade policy . . . [A] grand narrative [that] also debunks trade-policy myths.” —Economist Should the United States be open to commerce with other countries, or should it protect domestic industries from foreign competition? This question has been the source of bitter political conflict throughout American history. Such conflict was inevitable, James Madison argued in the Federalist Papers, because trade policy involves clashing economic interests. The struggle between the winners and losers from trade has always been fierce because dollars and jobs are at stake: depending on what policy is chosen, some industries, farmers, and workers will prosper, while others will suffer. Douglas A. Irwin’s Clashing over Commerce is the most authoritative and comprehensive history of US trade policy to date, offering a clear picture of the various economic and political forces that have shaped it. From the start, trade policy divided the nation—first when Thomas Jefferson declared an embargo on all foreign trade and then when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union over excessive taxes on imports. The Civil War saw a shift toward protectionism, which then came under constant political attack. Then, controversy over the Smoot-Hawley tariff during the Great Depression led to a policy shift toward freer trade, involving trade agreements that eventually produced the World Trade Organization. Irwin makes sense of this turbulent history by showing how different economic interests tend to be grouped geographically, meaning that every proposed policy change found ready champions and opponents in Congress. Deeply researched and rich with insight and detail, Clashing over Commerce provides valuable and enduring insights into US trade policy past and present. “Combines scholarly analysis with a historian’s eye for trends and colorful details . . . readable and illuminating, for the trade expert and for all Americans wanting a deeper understanding of America’s evolving role in the global economy.” —National Review “Magisterial.” —Foreign Affairs

Author : P. K. Page
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0889843090

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The Old Woman and the Hen by P. K. Page Pdf

The Old Woman and the Hen is a charming folktale written by one of Canada's best known poets. Written simply, but infused with the rhythm and wordcraft that only a poet of P. K. Page's talent can deliver, the text is accompanied by six original wood engravings created for the book by Jim Westergard.