All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel

(Hardback)

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• Contemporary themes: the search for meaning and for spirituality in a secular world; the art of attention; reconciliation with the Catholic Church; the meaning and value of art (and the humanities) in the 21st century, especially art from cultures and eras radically different from our own.
• Editorial comps include: Mark Dotys Still Life with Oysters and Lemons, So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munsch by Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
• Marshalls nonfiction and journalism have appeared in Slate, The Common, Macleans, the Globe and Mail, and elsewhere.
• Include four-colour images throughout.

Reviews

Praise forAll Things Move

"Elegantly voiced [...] [Marshall's] declaration of a point of view, that sense of personal experience in the face of great art and especially the right to have personal experience in the face of great art, proves to be as worthy a subject as the Sistine Chapel itself."
Washington Post

"Jeannie Marshalls All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel brings Michelangelos frescoes into exacting view, considering not only the details of the images and context of their making, but their ongoing situatedness in human history."
Ploughshares

All Things Move is an extended essay on how we experience art [...] evocative and illuminating, a moving meditation on the human impulse both to create art and to experience its power.
Winnipeg Free Press

"A testament to quiet patience, and what we gain when we let go of preconceptions of how we are supposed to interact with an artwork of any medium or discipline."
Quill & Quire

"Jeannie Marshall's bookAll Things Moveaddresses the splendor of the iconic Sistine Chapel from personal and universal perspectives [...] an all-encompassing intimate tour of the Sistine Chapel's extraordinary wonders"
Foreword Reviews

"'Great Art' can often have a highbrow, inaccessible aura, but Marshalls individual approach to the Sistine Chapel makes it so compelling."
McGill Tribune

"Jeannie Marshall offers a meditation on the timeless values and personal meanings in both art and religion. Full of insights into everyone from Michelangelo and Martin Luther to Barnett Newman,All Things Moveis a celebration of the power of art to make us see, feel and think."
Ross King, author ofMichelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling

"All Things Moveis not just another book, written in clear and lively sentences that anyone will want to read, detailing the history and creation of one of the greatest works of art known to mankind. It's a book that actually operates in the opposite directiona book about how we experience that work of art, and why the experience is so unforgettable. Michelangelo made a great and lasting work of art that changed history. But in Marshall's gifted hands, our experience of it becomes an adventure and a work of art in its own right. This is a book about discovery, unlike anything you have read before."
Ian Brown, author ofSixty

"In the manner of the late W. G. Sebald, who shattered sundry barriers in his writing, Jeannie Marshall has produced a prose poem, a deeply personal, multi-layered, and thoroughly captivating meditation on art, spirituality, and life. I was both moved and enchanted."
Modris Eksteins, author ofSolar Dance

Praise for Jeannie Marshall

Marshalls clear, direct book ably captures the frustrations of trying to find the healthiest path and inspiring kids to do the same.
Kirkus Reviews

Marshall ... writes passionately about the dangers posed by processed foodsnot just to our childrens health but to our way of life, our human attachment to the 'ordinary happiness' of meals cooked at home from real foods.
Boston Globe

Engaging admirably well-researched a well-timed eye-opener.
Chris Nuttal-Smith,Globe and Mail

Outside the Boxis about teaching kids how to appreciate real food but also about how globalization is changing the way the world eats. In this beautifully written book about what needs to be done to preserve food culture in Italy and elsewhere, Marshall makes the political personal as she explains how she is teaching her son to enjoy the pleasures of eating food prepared, cooked and lovingly shared by friends and family.
Marion Nestle, author ofFood Politics

Author Bio

Jeannie Marshallis a writer who has been living in Italy with her family since 2002. A nonfiction author, journalist, and former staff features writer at theNational Postin Toronto, she contributes articles toMaclean'sandthe Walrusand has published literary nonfiction inThe Common, theLiterary Review of Canada, Brick, and elsewhere.