Author: Molly Peacock Publisher: ECW Press ISBN: 1773058398 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 280
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“Graceful yet precise, poetic yet deeply rooted in research, this exploration of an overlooked painter is gorgeous — a joy to read. Molly Peacock’s insights and empathy with her subject bring to life both Mary Hiester Reid and her luscious flower paintings.” — Charlotte Gray, author of The Massey Murder Molly Peacock uncovers the history of neglected painter Mary Hiester Reid, a trailblazing artist who refused to choose between marriage and a career. Born into a patrician American family in the middle of the nineteenth century, Mary Hiester Reid was determined to be a painter and left behind women’s design schools to enter the art world of men. After she married fellow artist George Reid, she returned with him to his home country of Canada. There she set about creating over 300 stunning still life and landscape paintings, inhabiting a rich, if sometimes difficult, marriage, coping with a younger rival, exhibiting internationally, and becoming well-reviewed. She studied in Paris, traveled in Spain, and divided her time between Canada and the United States where she lived among America’s Arts and Crafts movement titans. She left slender written records; rather, her art became her diary and Flower Diary unfolds with an artwork for each episode of her life. In this sumptuous and precisely researched biography, celebrated poet and biographer Molly Peacock brings Mary Hiester Reid, foremother of painters such as Georgia O’Keefe, out of the shadows, revealing a fascinating, complex woman who insisted on her right to live as a married artist, not as a tragic heroine. Peacock uses her poet’s skill to create a structurally inventive portrait of this extraordinary woman whom modernism almost swept aside, weaving threads of her own marriage with Hiester Reid’s, following the history of empathy and examining how women manage the demands of creativity and domesticity, coping with relationships, stoves, and steamships, too. How do you make room for art when you must go to the market to buy a chicken for dinner? Hiester Reid had her answers, as Peacock gloriously discovers.
Author: Peter Pauper Press, Inc Publisher: ISBN: 9781441333018 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Reminiscent of the intense realism of 17th-century Dutch still life paintings, this striking journal will clad your writing in Baroque finery. Its 192 pages provide plenty of space for personal musings, sketching, or jotting down favorite quotations or poems. Thick, smooth-finish pages support a variety of pens. Subtle lines guide your writing. Acid-free archival-quality paper helps preserve your journal entries. Dramatic cover design is embossed with gold foil highlights. Journal comes with a black ribbon marker with which to keep your place. Complementary endsheets. Bookbound-style hardcover. Journal is a larger size: 7-1/4'' wide x 9'' high.
Author: Tamara Shopsin Publisher: ISBN: 9780977648184 Category : Artists' books Languages : en Pages : 376
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A blue-covered edition of the classic journal devotes a page to every day of a five-year time span and features illustrations by an artist whose work is regularly featured in The New York Times, in a volume that is complemented by a red ribbon bookmark and additional pages for recording literary and travel experiences.
Author: Ilex Press Publisher: Ilex Press ISBN: 9781781576151 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 144
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Most of us need lists, apps, sticky notes, and different forms of calendars and trackers tokeep track of our tasks and appointments. The bullet method of journaling was created to bring all these sources together as a completely personalized organization system in note form - a way to 'sync' your personal diary, professional planner, lists of your life goals plus the endless day-to-day tasks. If you're sick of piles of half-used notebooks, lists on the fridge, stickies on your computer, and electronic diaries, the Bullet Grid Journal shows you the way to bring together and organize all the information you need for your happier, calmer life. Choose from three attractive patterns. Contents: 8 pages of instructions and an index (contents page you fill in yourself), followed by dotgridded, numbered pages for journaling.
Author: Karen Azoulay Publisher: Clarkson Potter ISBN: 0593234685 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 249
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Uncover the secret meanings behind your bouquets and floral arrangements with this stunningly illustrated exploration of the Victorian language of flowers, including the multicultural history, rituals, and mythology behind over 600 flowers, herbs, and trees. In the Victorian language of flowers, hundreds of blooms were ascribed specific meanings based on folklore, science, and ancient history. Page through this botanical encyclopedia to learn each flower's Victorian meaning (ranunculus, for example, boldly states, "I am dazzled by your charms," while marigold represents despair), common names, and cultural history. There is also an index of the flowers grouped by theme, should you want to challenge your local florist to create a coded message for a loved one. The study of floriography can be used by readers to decode hidden messages in beloved novels like The Age of Innocence or speculate as to why two canary-yellow roses—which signify jealousy and infidelity—were featured in Diana Spencer's wedding bouquet. You might share some honeysuckle (meaning "bonds of love") with a friend or partner as a gesture of commitment. Or perhaps you'll choose a celebratory bouquet of angelica ("inspiration") and purple columbine ("resolved to win") for a friend who has triumphed over something difficult. Karen Azoulay pairs nineteenth century botanical drawings with electric photography, creating a one-of-a-kind flower dictionary with a contemporary, artful feel. With a foreword by Kate Bolick and a helpful sentiment-based index, Flowers and Their Meanings is both a beautiful volume and a practical guide to incorporating the language of flowers into your own life.
Author: Lauri L. Hyers Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190256699 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 225
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Diary research methods are distinct in the qualitative canon for their mode of data collection. This book discusses diary research history, design, data collection, data analysis, composing the final report, evaluation, and ethics.
Author: Valeriana Bandeh Publisher: FriesenPress ISBN: 1770675752 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 178
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Betrothed- The Gambia Story captures the life of a young woman who flees her country to avoid an arranged marriage. Set amidst a backdrop of the Harmattan winds of Banjul, the silver skyline of Baltimore and the scintillating waters of the Caribbean, Serrah Jallow seeks a new life- a culture, a career, a love. By chance or perhaps by fate, she discovers Sonny Felipe, a man shrouded in mystery, but willing to unveil her every defense erected from past guilt, disappointment and divorce. Secret after secret is revealed as Serrah Jallow struggles to make her way back finally- to love. ...
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