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Title Statement | Talking to a portrait: tales of an art curator / Rosalind M. Pepall. |
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Author | Pepall, Rosalind M., 1947- |
Publication | Montréal, Québec: Véhicule Press,[2020]©2020: |
Extent of Item | 224 pages |
ISBN | 1550655418 (pbk.) 9781550655414 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 3807352 |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary | 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. |
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By Topic | Art museum curators--Anecdotes |
Art museums--Anecdotes--Curatorship | |
By Name | Pepall, Rosalind M.,1947- |