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Talking to a Portrait - by Rosalind Pepall (Paperback)

Talking to a Portrait - by  Rosalind Pepall (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Behind the scenes at the world's major art museums, the life of a curator can be thrilling, amusing, disappointing--but never boring. <p/> 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 <i>kogos</i>, watercolour sketchbooks of the Canadian north, a beautiful prayer room in Montreal, gondolas flying through windows in Venice, and Moscovites who love <i>Goldfinger</i>. <p/>Pepall's stories sparkle with clarity and leave one with a sense that art is an amazing, worthwhile, occasionally mysterious human activity. <p/>Archival black and white photographs and colour plates--including Edwin Holgate's <i>Ludivine</i>, 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>In a career spanning over thirty years, first as Curator of Canadian Art, and then Senior Curator of Decorative Arts at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, <b>Rosalind Pepall</b> helped to plan and organize dozens of major exhibitions and authored several exhibition catalogues. Based in Montreal, she is a consultant, conference speaker, and writer in the field of art.

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