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Bibliotheque Et Archives Musee Des Beaux Arts Du Canada
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Book Synopsis Index Des Catalogues Et Des Listes D'exposition Du Musée Des Beaux-arts Du Canada 1880-1930 by : National Gallery of Canada
Download or read book Index Des Catalogues Et Des Listes D'exposition Du Musée Des Beaux-arts Du Canada 1880-1930 written by National Gallery of Canada and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Canadian Reference Sources by : Mary E. Bond
Download or read book Canadian Reference Sources written by Mary E. Bond and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In parallel columns of French and English, lists over 4,000 reference works and books on history and the humanities, breaking down the large divisions by subject, genre, type of document, and province or territory. Includes titles of national, provincial, territorial, or regional interest in every subject area when available. The entries describe the core focus of the book, its range of interest, scholarly paraphernalia, and any editions in the other Canadian language. The humanities headings are arts, language and linguistics, literature, performing arts, philosophy, and religion. Indexed by name, title, and French and English subject. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis F.H. Varley by : Frederick Horsman Varley
Download or read book F.H. Varley written by Frederick Horsman Varley and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2007-03-30 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Varley Art Gallery of Markham, Ont., May 25-Sept. 3, 2007 and other places.
Download or read book Rise to Greatness written by Conrad Black and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 1146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Controversial newspaper publisher and historian Conrad Black has written a definitive history of Canada. This is a revealing account of the people and events that shaped a nation. Spanning from 874 to 2014, and beginning with Canada's first inhabitants and the early explorers, this masterful history challenges our perception of our history and Canada's role in the world. From Champlain to Carleton, Baldwin and Lafontaine, to MacDonald, Laurier and King; from Canada's role in peace and war to Quebec's quest for autonomy, Black takes on sweeping themes.
Book Synopsis Centre and Periphery, Roots and Exile by : Friedemann Sallis
Download or read book Centre and Periphery, Roots and Exile written by Friedemann Sallis and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the impact place and displacement can have on the composition and interpretation of Western art music, using as its primary objects of study the work of István Anhalt (1919–2012), György Kurtág (1926–), and Sándor Veress (1907–92). Although all three composers are of Hungarian origin, their careers followed radically different paths. Whereas, Kurtág remained in Budapest for most of his career, Anhalt and Veress left: the former in 1946 and immigrated to Canada and the latter in 1948 and settled in Switzerland. All three composers have had an extraordinary impact in the cultural environments within which their work took place. In the first section, “Place and Displacement,” contributors examine what happens when composers and their music migrate in the culturally complex world of the late twentieth century. The past one hundred years produced record numbers of refugees, and this fact is now beginning to resonate in the study of music. As Anhalt himself forcefully asserts, however, not all composers who emigrate should be understood as exiles. The first chapters of this book explore some of the problems and questions surrounding this issue. Essays in the second section, “Perspectives on Reception, Analysis, and Interpretation,” look at how performing acts of interpretation on music implies bringing the time, place, and identity of the musician, the analyst, and the teacher to bear on the object of study. Like Kodály, Kurtág considers his work to be “naturally” embedded in Hungarian culture, but he is also a quintessentially European artist. Much of his production—he is one of the twentieth century’s most prolific composers of vocal music—involves the setting of Hungarian texts, but in the late 1970s his cultural horizons expanded to include texts in Russian, German, French, English, and ancient Greek. The book explores how musicologists’ divergent cultural perspectives impinge on the interpretation of this work. The final section, “The Presence of the Past and Memory in Contemporary Music,” examines the impact time and memory can have on notions of place and identity in music. All living art taps into the personal and collective past in one way or another. The final four chapters look at various aspects of this relationship.
Book Synopsis Great Paintings by : Karen Hosack Janes
Download or read book Great Paintings written by Karen Hosack Janes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-09-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Paintings is a sumptuous, visual guided tour of 66 of the world's greatest paintings. Ranging from works by Zhang Zeduan, a 12th-century Chinese master, to modern masterpieces by Rothko and Anselm Kiefer, the paintings are arranged chronologically, providing an excellent visual introduction to the history of art. The book starts with how to "read" a painting. Annotated paintings show how to identify the key elements of a picture. The major part of the book is a magnificent visual gallery of iconic paintings. The story behind each painting is fully explained, unlocking the often hidden meanings of symbols and details. Each painting is then analyzed visually, using pull-out details and overlays, to help the reader understand the key features, composition, and techniques. Artists' biographies and features on historical and social context explore how landmark paintings have been influenced by what has gone before and how they go on to inspire what comes after them. Reading Great Paintings is like being taken around a gallery by a personal guide who helps you to look at paintings-both familiar and new-in fresh and fascinating ways. Understanding paintings has never been so easy. Contents (provisional list of paintings) PRELIMS INTRODUCTION: LOOKING AT ART PREHISTORY TO 15TH CENTURY 1. Quingming Riverside, Zhang Zeduan (Chinese) 2. Lamentation of Christ, Giotto (Italian) 3. The Madonna Enthroned, Duccio di Buoninsegna (Italian) 4. The Annunciation, Fra Angelico (Italian) 5. The Arnolfini Portrait, Jan van Eyck (Flemish) 6. The Baptism of Christ, Piero della Francesca (Italian) 7. The Hunt in the Forest, Paolo Uccello (Italian) 8. Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli (Italian) 16TH CENTURY 9. The Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymus Bosch (Netherlandish) 10. Great Piece of Turf, Albrecht Du ̈rer (German) 11. Mona Lisa, Leonard da Vinci, (Italian) 12. The School of Athens, Raphael, (Italian) 13. The Sistine Chapel Ceiling, Michelangelo, (Italian) 14. Bacchus and Ariadne, Titian, (Italian) 15. The Ambassadors, Hans Holbein the Younger (German) 16. Spring Morning in the Han Palace, Qiu Ying (Chinese) 17. The Peasant Wedding, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish) 18. Spring, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, (Italian) 19. Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons, Kano Eitoku ( Japanese) 20. Akhbar Tames the Savage Elephant, Hawa'l, Basawan and Chatai (Indian) 17TH CENTURY 21. David with the Head of Goliath, Caravaggio (Italian) 22. Self Portrait as "La Pittura", Artemisia Gentileschi (Italian) 23. The Judgement of Paris, Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish) 24. Charles I on Horseback, Anthony van Dyck (Flemish) 25. Portrait of Rembrandt, Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch) 26. Las Meninas, Diego Velásquez (Spanish) 27. The Art of Painting (The Artist's Studio), Johannes Vermeer (Dutch) 18TH CENTURY 28. Still Life with Flowers and Fruit, Jan van Huysum (Dutch) 29. Marriage a la Mode: The Toilette, William Hogarth (British) 30. Mr and Mrs Andrews, Thomas Gainsborough, (British) 31. Allegory of the Planets and Continents, Giambattista Tiepolo (Italian) 32. Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, Joseph Wright of Derby (British) 33. The Death of Marat Jacques-Louis David (French) 19TH CENTURY 34. The Valpinçon Bather, Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres (French) 35. The Third of May 1808, Francisco de Goya (Spanish) 36. The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, Casper David Friedrich (German) (with inset: The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Hokusai (Japanese) 37. The Hay Wain, John Constable (British) 38. The Fighting Temeraire, J.M.W. Turner (British) 39. The Artist's Studio, Gustave Courbet (French) 40. The Gleaners, Jean-François Millet (French) 41. Olympia, Édouard Manet (French) 42. Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother, James McNeill Whistler (American) 43. The Dancing Class, Edgar Degas, (French) 44. Van Gogh's Chair, Van Gogh (Dutch) 45. La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat (French) 46. The Child's Bath, Mary Cassatt (American) 47. Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?, Paul Gauguin (French) 48. The Bathers, Paul Cézanne (French) 49. The Waterlily Pond, Claude Monet (French) 50. Lake Keitele, Akseli Gallen-Kallela (Finnish) 20TH CENTURY 51. The Kiss, Gustav Klimt (Austrian) 52. Composition VII, Wassily Kandinsky (Russian) 53. Berlin Street Scene, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German) 54. Northern River, Tom Thomson (Canadian) 55. Red Canna, Georgia O'Keefe (American) 56. Composition II in Red, Blue and Yellow, Piet Mondrian (Dutch) 57. Metamorphosis of Narcissus, Salvador Dali (Spanish) 58. Guernica, Pablo Picasso (Spanish) 59. Nighthawks, Edward Hopper, (American) 60. Without Hope, Frida Kahlo (Mexican) (with insert: The Scream, Edvard Munch 61. Autumn Rhythm, Jackson Pollock (American) 62. Untitled, Mark Rothko (American) 63. Marilyn, Andy Warhol (American) 64. To a Summer's Day, Bridget Riley (British) 65. The Dance, Paula Rego (Portuguese) 66. Athanor, Anselm Kiefer (German) GLOSSARY INDEX AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Book Synopsis Champlain's Dream by : David Hackett Fischer
Download or read book Champlain's Dream written by David Hackett Fischer and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sweeping, enthralling biography, acclaimed Pulitzer Prize–winner David Hackett Fischer magnificently brings to life the visionary adventurer who has straddled our history for 400 years. Champlain’s Dream reveals, with rare immediacy and drama, the story of a remarkable man: a leader who dreamed of humanity and peace in a world riven by violence; a man of his own time who nevertheless strove to build a settlement in Canada that would be founded on harmony and respect. With consummate narrative skill and comprehensive scholarship, Fischer unfolds a life shrouded in mystery, a complex, elusive man among many colorful characters. Born on France’s Atlantic coast, Samuel de Champlain grew up in a country bitterly divided by religious wars. But, like Henry IV, one of France’s greatest kings whose illegitimate son he may have been and who supported his travels from the Spanish Empire in Mexico to the St. Lawrence and the unknown territories, Champlain was religiously tolerant in an age of murderous sectarianism. Soldier, spy, master mariner, explorer, cartographer, and artist, he maneuvered his way through court intrigues in Paris, supported by Henri IV and, later, Louis XIII, though bitterly opposed by the Queen Regent Marie de Medici and the wily Cardinal Richelieu. But his astonishing dedication and stamina triumphed…. Champlain was an excellent navigator. He went to sea as a boy, acquiring the skills that allowed him to make 27 Atlantic crossings between France and Canada, enduring raging storms without losing a ship, and finally bringing with him into the wilderness his young wife, whom he had married in middle age. In the place he called Quebec, on the beautiful north shore of the St. Lawrence, he founded the first European settlement in Canada, where he dreamed that Europeans and First Nations would cooperate for mutual benefit. There he played a role in starting the growth of three populations — Québécois, Acadian, and Métis — from which millions descend. Through three decades, on foot and by ship and canoe, Champlain traveled through what are now six Canadian provinces and five American states, negotiating with more than a dozen Indian nations, encouraging intermarriage among the French colonists and the natives, and insisting, as a Catholic, on tolerance for Protestants. A brilliant politician as well as a soldier, he tried constantly to maintain a balance of power among the Indian nations and his Indian allies, but, when he had to, he took up arms with them and against them, proving himself a formidable strategist and warrior in ferocious wars. Drawing on Champlain’s own diaries and accounts, as well as his exquisite drawings and maps, Fischer shows him to have been a keen observer of a vanished world: an artist and cartographer who drew and wrote vividly, publishing four invaluable books on the life he saw around him. This superb biography (the first full-scale biography in decades) by a great historian is as dramatic and richly exciting as the life it portrays. Deeply researched, it is illustrated throughout with 110 contemporary images and 37 maps, including several drawn by Champlain himself.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Public Archives Library by : Public Archives of Canada. Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Public Archives Library written by Public Archives of Canada. Library and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Commanders written by DK Publishing and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commanders focuses on the greatest leaders in naval, field, and aerial warfare. From Alexander the Great's conquest of the known world to the generals leading today's campaigns in Afghanistan, the book casts new light on the leaders who have forged history on the battlefield. Famous historical commanders, such as Julius Caesar, Napoleon, and Horatio Nelson, are considered in depth, along with their subordinates and enemies. Commanders from outside the Western tradition are also examined, including the great Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Native American, and African leaders. Chapter introductions contextualize the entries by explaining who fought whom and why, and individual stories bring the history to life. Catalog information gives an at-a-glance overview of each commander's life, and each section provides a timeline, key data, and a psychological profile outlining the commander's strengths and weaknesses. Images will include paintings of battles, battlefield maps, as well as the commanders' weapons, vehicles, and personal effects.
Book Synopsis Science in the Renaissance by : Lisa Mullins
Download or read book Science in the Renaissance written by Lisa Mullins and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses scientific advances during the Renaissance, ranging from the printing press to the discovery of gravity.
Book Synopsis Abstract Painting in Canada by : Roald Nasgaard
Download or read book Abstract Painting in Canada written by Roald Nasgaard and published by Douglas & McIntyre. This book was released on 2008 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of the distinguished Douglas & McIntyre art program, this lavishly illustrated and superbly printed book is a rich, readable history of abstract painting in Canada. The story begins in the 1920s with the sometimes eccentric but remarkable work, rooted in symbolism and theosophy, of pioneers such as Kathleen Munn, Bertram Brooker and Lawren Harris. Two decades later the Automatistes-Canada's first truly independent avant-garde art movement-burst onto the scene in Montreal. After the Second World War, the urge to abstraction spread across Canada, manifesting itself in significant regional movements. Vancouver painters retained a British flavour, while in Toronto, the Painters Eleven looked south to New York. Montreal's Plasticiens launched their own razor-edged interpretation of the European tradition of geometric abstraction. In the sixties and seventies, the Prairies were influenced by Clement Greenberg's post-painterly abstraction, while Halifax became a hub of conceptual art and concrete painting. The book continues through the eighties and nineties, during which critics largely denounced painting, and concludes in the twenty-first century, with abstract painting alive and well again in the studios of Canada's young artists. A monumental tome containing 200 color reproductions, it mines a rich vein of art history ripe for international discovery.
Book Synopsis World Guide to Special Libraries by : Marlies Janson
Download or read book World Guide to Special Libraries written by Marlies Janson and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 1392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Guide to Special Libraries lists about 35,000 libraries world wide categorized by more than 800 key words - including libraries of departments, institutes, hospitals, schools, companies, administrative bodies, foundations, associations and religious communities. It provides complete details of the libraries and their holdings, and alphabetical indexes of subjects and institutions.
Download or read book Art That Changed the World written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the uplifting power of art on this breathtaking visual tour of 2,500 paintings and sculptures created by more than 700 artists from Michelangelo to Damien Hirst. This beautiful book brings you the very best of world art from cave paintings to Neoexpressionism. Enjoy iconic must-see works, such as Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper and Monet's Waterlilies and discover less familiar artists and genres from all parts of the globe. Art That Changed the World covers the full sweep of world art, including the Ming era in China, and Japanese, Hindu, and Indigenous Australian art. It analyses recurring themes such as love and religion, explaining key genres from Romanesque to Conceptual art. Art That Changed the World explores each artist's key works and vision, showing details of their technique, such as Leonardo's use of light and shade. It tells the story of avant-garde works like Manet's Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe (Lunch on the Grass), which scandalized society, and traces how one genre informed another - showing how the Impressionists were inspired by Gustave Courbet, for example, and how Van Gogh was influenced by Japanese prints. Lavishly illustrated throughout, look no further for your essential guide to the pantheon of world art.
Book Synopsis Representing the Black Female Subject in Western Art by : Charmaine A. Nelson
Download or read book Representing the Black Female Subject in Western Art written by Charmaine A. Nelson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charmaine A. Nelson analyzes not only how, where, why and by whom black female subjects have been represented in Western art, but also what the social and cultural impacts of the colonial legacy of racialized western representation have been. She poses critical questions about the contexts of production, the problems of representation, the pathways of circulation and the consequences of consumption.
Book Synopsis Illustrated History of Canada by : Craig Brown
Download or read book Illustrated History of Canada written by Craig Brown and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1987, The Illustrated History of Canada was the first comprehensive, authoritative one-volume history of the country. It featured chapters by seven of Canada's leading historians and hundreds of engravings, lithographs, cartoons, maps, posters, and photographs. Together, these elements created a sweeping chronicle of Canada from its earliest times to yesterday's news. Now The Illustrated History of Canada has been fully updated to bring readers into the twenty-first century, with new material on such topics as the rise of small government, the recognition of Native land claims, Canada's role in the post-Cold War "peace," and the 2011 federal election. More than ever, The Illustrated History of Canada is a must-have reference guide for all Canadians interested in the history - and the future - of our country. Contributors include Ramsay Cook (emeritus, York University), Christopher Moore (Toronto writer), Desmond Morton (McGill University), Arthur Ray (emeritus, University of British Columbia), Peter Waite (emeritus, Dalhousie University), and Graeme Wynn (University of British Columbia).
Book Synopsis A History of Modern Librarianship by : Pamela Spence Richards
Download or read book A History of Modern Librarianship written by Pamela Spence Richards and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad, comparative history of librarianship, this intriguing work goes beyond the standard focus on institutions and collections to help you explore the part modern librarianship played—and continues to play—in forming Western cultures. Previous histories of libraries in the Western world—the last of which was published nearly 20 years ago—concentrate on libraries and librarians. This book takes a different approach. It focuses on the practice of librarianship, showing you how that practice has contributed to constructing the heritage of cultures. To do so, this groundbreaking collection of essays presents the history of modern librarianship in the context of recent developments of the library institution, professionalization of librarianship, and innovation through information technology. Organized by region, the book addresses the widely recognized, international impact of Anglo-American librarianship and its continuing influence over the past century, combining critical analysis with chronological histories of modern librarianship in Europe, North America, Australia/New Zealand, and Africa. An introductory chapter explains the origins of the project, and a concluding chapter examines the effects of digitization on modern librarianship in the 21st century.
Book Synopsis Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers by :
Download or read book Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
