| Talking to a Portrait: Tales of an Art Curator Contributor(s): Pepall, Rosalind (Author) |
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ISBN: 1550655418 ISBN-13: 9781550655414 Publisher: Vehicule Press OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Museum Studies - Biography & Autobiography | Artists, Architects, Photographers |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.79 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Behind the scenes at the world's major art museums, the life of a curator can be thrilling, amusing, disappointing--but never boring. In these fifteen essays we encounter artists falling in and out of love, family tragedies, the creation of the Stanley Cup, the secrets of Tiffany, Antiques Roadshow, a rootless baroness, the design craze for aluminum, small Japanese boxes called kogos, watercolour sketchbooks of the Canadian north, a beautiful prayer room in Montreal, gondolas flying through windows in Venice, and Moscovites who love Goldfinger. Pepall's stories sparkle with clarity and leave one with a sense that art is an amazing, worthwhile, occasionally mysterious human activity. Archival black and white photographs and colour plates--including Edwin Holgate's Ludivine, one of the most beloved and recognizable Canadian portraits ever painted--make this book a must-have for art lovers, students, academics, museum-goers and readers interested in the role art plays in the creation of our lives. |
