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Books on: famous canadian artists

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French-Canadian Literature

Book by Jonathan Weiss, Jane Moss; Associaton for Canadian Studies in the United States, 1996

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French-Canadian Literature--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...dramatized the spiritual and artistic itiner- ary of this famous Canadian artist who had to struggle against Victorian prejudices...marginalized by society. Unfortunately for the lesbian artists living together in a commune, friendship, love...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists

Book by Ian Chilvers; Oxford University Press, 1996

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Art--Dictionaries, Artists--Biography--Dictionaries

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...See MASTER OF FLEMALIE. Canadian Group of Painters . A group of 20th-cent. Canadian artists formed in Toronto as a...Venetian painter, the most famous view-painter of the...he was not in fact the famous Canaletto but an impostor...
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Doing Gender: Franco-Canadian Women Writers of the 1990s

Book by Paula Ruth Gilbert, Roseanna L. Dufault; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001

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French-Canadian Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, French-Canadian Literature--Quaebec (Province)--History And Criticism, French-Canadian Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Women And Literature--Quaebec (Province), Women In Literature

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...Bouillon de Culture is a famous TV program in which Bernard Pivot invites artists to discuss their work. It...may be as important to some artists as a nomination to lAcademie...Multidisciplinary Works and Artists). 18 Gabrielle Poulin calls...
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American Art Colonies, 1850-1930: A Historical Guide to America's Original Art Colonies and Their Artists

Book by Steve Shipp; Greenwood Press, 1996

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Art, American, Art, Modern--19th Century--United States, Artist Colonies--United States, Artists--United States--Social Life And Customs

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...Art Association, an artists cooperative designed...fellowship between local artists and the community...1914. Other prominent artists who lived or worked...Hill Gilbert, marine artist Arthur J. Hammond, and Canadian-American painter Thomas...a background for his famous Treasure Island...
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Woman as Artist: Papers in Honour of Marsha Hanen

Book by Christine Mason Sutherland, Beverly Jean Rasporich; University of Calgary Press, 1993

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Arts--Canada, Hanen, Marsha P.--1936-, Women Artists--Canada, Women Authors--Canada, Women--Canada

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...three-years , the first and the youngest Canadian ever to receive such an award. We had...references to her studies in London and to the famous musicians she had known, men whose names...York, to return to a small, provincial Canadian town where she was compelled to make do...

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Journal Articles on: famous canadian artists

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100 Canadian Heroines: Famous and Forgotten Faces

Journal article by Milena Santoro; American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 36, 2006

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100 Canadian Heroines: Famous and Forgotten Faces (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

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...Merna Forster. 100 Canadian Heroines: Famous and Forgotten Faces...biographies are dedicated to artists, including singers...several well-known Canadians were excluded because...amazing stories of the "famous and forgotten" women...Mazo de la Roche, artist Emily Carr, feminists...walk of life. Her 100 Canadian Heroines is a compelling...
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The Artist as Producer: Russian Constructivism in Revolution

Journal article by K. Andrea Rusnock; Canadian Journal of History, Vol. 42, 2007

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Books--Book reviews, The Artist as Producer: Russian Constructivism in Revolution (Book)--Book reviews

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...95 US (cloth). The Artist as Producer navigates...of the Constructivist artist Karl Ioganson, little...by several of these artists, exhibited in the Society for Young Artists (OKMOKhU) show, are...Nikolai Tarabukins famous treatise, From Easel...that the Constructivist artist is, in fact, an engineer...
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Art for Whose Sake? Reading Pound's Reputation in Timothy Findley's Famous Last Words and the Trials of Ezra Pound

Journal article by Donna Krolik Hollenberg; Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 33, 1999

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Canadian literature, Drama, Findley, Timothy, History & criticism, Literary criticism, Novels, Pound, Ezra, Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...status as psychodrama. Unlike Famous Last Words, where the offensive...exaltation and contrition. As in Famous Last Words, our response to...Like Captain Freyberg in Famous Last Words, Deutsch is upset...invokes the popular belief that artists are monstres sacris, granted...
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Nathanson, Zukor, and Famous Players: Movie Exhibition in Canada, 1920-1941

Journal article by Robert M. Seiler; American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 36, 2006

Subjects:

Famous Players Ltd.--Services, Motion picture theaters--Industry forecasts, Motion picture theaters--Services, Movie theaters--Industry forecasts, Movie theaters--Services, Nathanson--Management, Zukor, Adolph--Management

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...formed Famous Players Canadian Corporation; Zukor...number of prominent Canadians to the board of directors...told the press that Famous Players was committed...emphasis on British and Canadian road shows, charging...into affiliating with Famous Players (see White...and prevent vaudeville artists who were contracted...
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The Grandfathering of William Lyon Mackenzie King (1)

Journal article by Dennis Duffy; American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 32, 2002

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Allward, Walter Seymour--Political aspects, Art patronage--Political aspects, Art patronage--Psychological aspects, Artists, Canadian, Canadian artists, King, William Lyon Mackenzie--Political aspects, King, William Lyon Mackenzie--Portrayals, King, William Lyon Mackenzie--Psychological aspects, Mackenzie, William Lyon, Memorial monuments--Finance, Memorial monuments--Political aspects, Prime ministers--History, Prime ministers--Portrayals, Prime ministers--Psychological aspects, Public sculpture--Finance, Public sculpture--Political aspects, Sepulchral monuments--Finance, Sepulchral monuments--Political aspects

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...components: patron, artist and work. The...most celebrated Canadian artist of his...relatively few Canadians could view it...significance-the artists attempt to embody...relationship between artist and patron...backwater that was Canadian public art witnessed...Characteristic Canadians. Toronto...Year Book of Canadian Art 1913. Toronto...Muriel Miller, "Famous Canadian Artists," Onward 49...

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Magazine Articles on: famous canadian artists

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Splendide Californie!: Selections by French Artists in California History, 1786-1900

Magazine article by Claudine Chalmers; California History, Vol. 79, Winter 2000

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Artists, French--Criticism and interpretation, California--Portrayals, French (European people)--History, French (European people)--United States, French artists--Criticism and interpretation, French in the United States--History

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...Association called "an artist of great promise...generation French artists who did not leave...watercolors. Like Canadian painter Emily Carr...and the young artists, who were the...Schoenmakers retired as an artist. Her marriage...De Longpres most famous visitor was President...dynamic French artist died at an early...writers, and artists, California became...
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You Pretend to Be a Canadian

Magazine article by Bojana Videkanic; Women & Environments International Magazine, Fall 2006

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Art history, Canadian history, Multiculturalism & pluralism

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...Pretend to Be a Canadian by Bojana Videkanic...performance artist, started La...and roles that artists play in todays...represented as Canadian only as grossly...text argues, artists such as Turner...announces the artist as a "situated...flaunting markers of Canadian state. The...Cuban-American artist Coco Fusco...of her most famous performance...
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Between the White and the Red; Remembering Canadians in the Spanish Civil War

Magazine article by Patricia Rae; Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 115, Fall 2008

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Canadian history--Military aspects, Looking Back on the Spanish War (Nonfiction work)--Criticism and interpretation, Novelists--Works, Orwell, George--Works, Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939--Casualties

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...OVER 1,700 Canadians volunteered to...Orwellian" vision made famous by Nineteen Eighty...material about the Canadian volunteers. The...class writers, artists, and intellectuals...certainly true of the Canadians. Thanks to the...the nominally Canadian wing of the XVth...biggest contingent of Canadians by far (136...
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Greek Heritage: The Benaki Collection at the Canadian Museum of Civilization

Magazine article by Georges Leroux; Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 115, Fall 2008

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Athens, Greece--Buildings and facilities, Benakis, Antonis--Collections and collecting, Canadian Museum of Civilization--Collections and collecting, Museums--Collections and collecting, Museums--History

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...The Benaki Collection at the Canadian Museum of Civilization. by...recently on display at the Canadian Museum of Civilization illustrated...The exhibit includes the famous anonymous portrait of Lord...This portrait, by an unknown artist, shows him in Greek garb...affected the Cretan Renaissance artists who transmitted this tradition...
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Art in the Wilderness : Capturing Algonquin's Beauty

Magazine article by Stephen Henkin; World and I, Vol. 17, March 2002

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Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario--Exhibitions, Artists, Canadian--Works, Canadian artists--Works, Group of 7--Works, Harty, Dwayne--Works, Landscape painting--Exhibitions, Thomson, Tom--Works

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...Canada: "For artists such as Arthur...connection with the Canadian landscape that...Group of Seven artist has written about...many other ways, Canadians were a dependent...landscape that these artists felt embodied the...authentic footprints of famous Canadian artists." Spontaneity...of the Canadian artist in wilderness settings...

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Newspaper Articles on: famous canadian artists

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Back from the Wilds; Artist June Hunter Moved from Caretaker's Daughter in Newcastle to Building a Cabin by Herself in the Canadian Wilds but It Is Her Late Mother's Longing for a Garden That Truly Inspires Her. HANNAH DAVIES Finds out More

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), April 12, 2011

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Back from the Wilds; Artist June Hunter Moved from Caretakers...Building a Cabin by Herself in the Canadian Wilds but It Is Her Late Mothers...changed so much." June is now a Canadian resident, where she is married...area including its world-famous Granville Island Market. But...
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Picturing Greatness; A Canadian Master Who Portrayed the Famous and Powerful

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), August 30, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Picturing Greatness; A Canadian Master Who Portrayed the Famous and Powerful. Byline...shooting the powerful and famous. Given only a couple...comparison between the artist and the large, abstract...upward to heaven. Pop artist Andy Warhol advertises...at 100: Portraits of Artists WHERE: Embassy of Canada...
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History Framed for All Time; Canadian Embassy Displays American Photojournalism

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 2, 2008

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Canadian foreign relations, Photography

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...History Framed for All Time; Canadian Embassy Displays American Photojournalism...WASHINGTON TIMES Some of the most famous American photographs of the...Post. In 2005, an anonymous Canadian donor, who had purchased Black...Stars memorable portraits of artists and celebrities. They range...
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FRAME ACADEMY; Artists Chosen for Portraits of Our Great Merseysiders SPIRIT OF LIVERPOOL 100 GREATEST MERSEYSIDERS

Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), April 12, 2007

Subjects:

Painters, Painters (Artists), Portraits

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Editor EIGHT artists have been selected...gallery of the famous forms part of...is chosing an artist to portray another...coordinators, Liverpool artists agency Dot...eight Merseyside artists they have commissioned...Robinson, a French Canadian artist who now lives...has painted the famous Liver Building...
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Old Doig with New Tricks; Tropical Taste: inFigures in RedBoat, ....-., the Artist's Cherished Canoe and Reflections Are Rendered with the Thinnest Washes of Diluted Paint; There Is Practically No Detail Sugar and Spice: Top, Echo Lake, 1998. above, Left to Right, Lapeyrouse Wall, 2004; Reflection (What Does Your Soul Look like), 1996 a Marvellous Surface of Splodges and Droplets and Gasthof Zur Muldentalsperre, 2000-2

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 8, 2008

Subjects:

Painters, Painters (Artists)

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...atmospheric effects: the artists dont share the sameweather...brush. Turner, so the famous story goes, went round...YBAs and "relational" artists, and by German photographers...athree-year stay. The Canadian connection is important...Its almost asif the artist imagines himself as...Boat (2005-7), the artists cherished canoeand reflections...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: famous canadian artists

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American Art

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...architecture , and Canadian art and architecture...background of both artist and patron. The...painting attracted such artists as John Smibert...a long series of famous and charming portraits...known American artists as Willard Metcalf...painted by several artist-illustrators...Americans in the famous Armory Show of 1913...
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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Australian literature ; Canadian literature, English...clubs. One of the most famous of the latter was the...Blake is unique: poet, artist, artisan, revolutionist...of the natural world, artists and intellectuals sought...prolific Anthony Trollope , famous for sequences of related...

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