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Author: Anne Koval
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
Imprint: Goose Lane Editions
Dimensions:
Width: 16.50cm
, Height: 3.20cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 1.167kg
ISBN: 9781773101729
ISBN 10: 1773101722
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 03 October 2023
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""Anne Koval's biography of Mary Pratt sings in sympathy with its subject. This intimate and engaging portrait of one of Canada's greatest artists collapses the boundaries between biographer and biographee to produce a remarkable symbiosis of voice and vision."" - Helen Humphreys, author of Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium - 20230707 ""Koval writes with precision, compassion, and deep understanding of the complexity of what it means to be a woman, a daughter, a mother, a wife, an artist. She goes beyond the myths and tropes that surround Mary Pratt's life and art, as she draws upon Pratt's piercing intelligence and her remarkable, felt understanding of the mundane. She shows that, for Pratt, art was an act of love, one that couldn't exist without sacrifice."" - Mireille Eagan, editor of Future Possible: An Art History of Newfoundland and Labrador - 20230707"
"""Koval goes beyond the myths and tropes that surround Mary Pratt's life and art, as she draws upon Pratt's piercing intelligence and her remarkable, felt understanding of the mundane. She shows that, for Pratt, art was an act of love, one that couldn't exist without sacrifice."" - Mireille Eagan, curator of contemporary art, The Rooms - 20230707 ""Anne Koval's biography of Mary Pratt sings in sympathy with its subject. This intimate and engaging portrait of one of Canada's greatest artists collapses the boundaries between biographer and biographee to produce a remarkable symbiosis of voice and vision."" - Helen Humphreys, author of Field Study - 20230707 ""Incandescent, a word often applied to Mary Pratt's paintings, perfectly describes this engrossing biography. Mary Pratt: A Love Affair with Vision brings together the artist's archives with deeply intimate interviews and exquisite reproductions of her photorealist paintings. Pratt, an iconic painter of light on food and objects in the grand tradition of Chardin, springs to life, blessed with a sublime interpreter in Koval."" - Molly Peacock, author of Flower Diary - 20230713 ""This evocative biography of Mary Pratt illuminates the passionate life and consummate art of our greatest female painter since Emily Carr. Woman, wife, mother, artist -- Mary Pratt captivates with her delightful complexity and enthralling vision."" - The Rt. Hon. Adrienne Clarkson, author of Heart Matters - 20230713"
Author Information
Anne Koval is Professor of Art History, Museum and Curatorial Studies at Mount Allison University. She is the author of Mary Pratt: A Love Affair with Vision, Whistler in His Time, and the co-author of James McNeill Whistler: Beyond the Myth. She has written on Anna Torma for the Textile Museum of Canada and her writing on contemporary art has appeared in several edited volumes, including Stitching the Self: Identity and the Needle Arts, More Caught in the Act: An Anthology of Performance Art by Canadian Women, and The Radcliffe Line and Other Geographies: Sarindar Dhaliwal, which includes a series of ekphrastic poems by Koval. She has curated exhibitions at the Owens Art Gallery, the Mendel Art Gallery, the Banff Park Museum, and the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, which included the work of Ed Pien, Merle McMaster, D’Arcy Wilson, Diana Thorneycroft, Aganetha Dyck, Barb Hunt, Jeannie Thib, Janice Wright Cheney, Cindy Sherman, and Sylvia Plath.
