Author: Joy Snihur Wyatt Laking
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781989725252
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
"I gain a strong sense of interconnectedness and belonging when I look at her work. There is a universality and humanity Joy finds every time." --Sheree Fitch Since 1972, Joy Laking has lived and painted in Nova Scotia, capturing beauty in watercolours, oils, and acrylics in many locations. She sees beauty in both the usual and the unusual. The Painted Province lets the reader see Nova Scotia through an artist's eyes. Here, Joy has grouped some of her favourite paintings into forty regions, each with her personal commentary. In each of the regions, one of the images will have its GPS coordinates. You are encouraged to bring this book along in your travels to find some of the places where she created paintings. When you discover the exact spot, please take a photo. Then email it to her and she will post it on her website. Joy constantly finds ways to enhance her own creativity. Every year, she paints in unfamiliar countries, such as Bolivia, Ghana, India, and Sri Lanka, to return home to see Nova Scotia through fresh eyes. Joy has also written a play, children's books, articles about rural life, and work for the CBC.
The Painted Province
Art of Empire
Author: Annabel Jane Wharton
Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Between the ninth and twelfth centuries the Byzantine Empire encompassed a wide geographical territory extending from South Italy to Armenia, from the Danube to Cyprus. From the capital of the Empire, Constantinople, the all-powerful, God-elected emperor exercised autocratic control over the periphery. These structures of centralization stood in tension with the decentralizing force of local interests in the provinces. This present volume offers a comparative study of the form and patronage of surviving buildings and their painted decoration in four very different provinces-- Cappadocia, Cyprus, Macedonia, and South Italy--as a means of assessing the nature of Byzantine provincial art. All too often art historians have simplistically labeled high quality works in the provinces "metropolitan" and those of lesser aesthetic interests "provincial." The study establishes that a context in the hinterlands of the Empire affected the making of all provincial buildings--great and small. Local traditions and distinct patterns of patronage left their mark on even the most cosmopolitan structures. At the same time, the relative receptivity of the provinces to metropolitan artistic conventions indicates the ideological power of those conventions. Monumental works constructed in the provinces consistently served to reinforce Constantinopolitan hegemony. The reciprocity of these actions in the art of the Empire calls into question the facile equation of "provincial" with poor quality, derivativeness, and artistic insignificance. Most of the great fresco programs and buildings of the Byzantine Empire survive not in its capital, Constantinople, but in its provinces. Art of Empire is the only study to date which treats both the painting and architecture of these monuments comparatively within their geographical and social context. Though not a survey of provincial monuments, the book makes accessible to a broader audience a compendium of little-known and underappreciated works of great aesthetic and historical value.
Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Between the ninth and twelfth centuries the Byzantine Empire encompassed a wide geographical territory extending from South Italy to Armenia, from the Danube to Cyprus. From the capital of the Empire, Constantinople, the all-powerful, God-elected emperor exercised autocratic control over the periphery. These structures of centralization stood in tension with the decentralizing force of local interests in the provinces. This present volume offers a comparative study of the form and patronage of surviving buildings and their painted decoration in four very different provinces-- Cappadocia, Cyprus, Macedonia, and South Italy--as a means of assessing the nature of Byzantine provincial art. All too often art historians have simplistically labeled high quality works in the provinces "metropolitan" and those of lesser aesthetic interests "provincial." The study establishes that a context in the hinterlands of the Empire affected the making of all provincial buildings--great and small. Local traditions and distinct patterns of patronage left their mark on even the most cosmopolitan structures. At the same time, the relative receptivity of the provinces to metropolitan artistic conventions indicates the ideological power of those conventions. Monumental works constructed in the provinces consistently served to reinforce Constantinopolitan hegemony. The reciprocity of these actions in the art of the Empire calls into question the facile equation of "provincial" with poor quality, derivativeness, and artistic insignificance. Most of the great fresco programs and buildings of the Byzantine Empire survive not in its capital, Constantinople, but in its provinces. Art of Empire is the only study to date which treats both the painting and architecture of these monuments comparatively within their geographical and social context. Though not a survey of provincial monuments, the book makes accessible to a broader audience a compendium of little-known and underappreciated works of great aesthetic and historical value.
Art for the Province 70-71
Author: Vancouver Art Gallery. Extension Department
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
The Provinces of the Roman Empire from Caesar to Diocletian
Author: Theodor Mommsen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roman provinces
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roman provinces
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
The Bird Artist
Author: Howard Norman
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374706271
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Howard Norman's The Bird Artist, the first book of his Canadian trilogy, begins in 1911. Its narrator, Fabian Vas is a bird artist: He draws and paints the birds of Witless Bay, his remote Newfoundland coastal village home. In the first paragraph of his tale Fabian reveals that he has murdered the village lighthouse keeper, Botho August. Later, he confesses who and what drove him to his crime--a measured, profoundly engrossing story of passion, betrayal, guilt, and redemption between men and women. The Bird Artist is a 1994 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374706271
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Howard Norman's The Bird Artist, the first book of his Canadian trilogy, begins in 1911. Its narrator, Fabian Vas is a bird artist: He draws and paints the birds of Witless Bay, his remote Newfoundland coastal village home. In the first paragraph of his tale Fabian reveals that he has murdered the village lighthouse keeper, Botho August. Later, he confesses who and what drove him to his crime--a measured, profoundly engrossing story of passion, betrayal, guilt, and redemption between men and women. The Bird Artist is a 1994 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
Annual Report of the Dept. of Education of the Province of New Brunswick
Author: New Brunswick. Department of Education
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Painting in Pennsylvania
Author: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Canada and Its Provinces
Author: Adam Shortt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture of the Province of Saskatchewan
Author: Saskatchewan. Department of Agriculture
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1342
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1342
Book Description
Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada
Author: Canada. Parliament. Legislative Assembly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description