Many Lives Mark This Place: Canadian Writers in Portrait, Landscape, and Prose
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Many Lives Mark This Place: Canadian Writers in Portrait, Landscape, and Prose
By (Author) John Hartman
Foreword by Ian M. Thom
Figure 1 Publishing
Figure 1 Publishing
25th February 2020
Canada
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Exhibition catalogues and specific collections
Individual artists, art monographs
Nature in art
Human figures depicted in art
Biography: writers
Physical Properties
Hardback
160
Width 196mm, Height 234mm
Description
Many Lives Mark this Place is a unique and brilliant project: portraits of 32 of Canadas finest authors, painted into their home landscape, each accompanied by a short-but-powerful essay about how that place influences their life and work. Hartman traveled from Newfoundland to Tofino and visited tiny hamlets, our densest metropolises, remote beaches, Rocky Mountain peaks, and even a shopping mall, often using camera-equipped drones or chartered planes to gain the vantage necessary for arresting, information-dense compositions.
While the authors and places vary greatly in style and geographyfrom Johanna Skibsrud to Thomas King; the glaciers of the Rockies to downtown Montrealeach entry is united by John Hartmans rich and vivid painting style, which offers a novel perspective on the writers we love and the places that formed them.
Featuring portraits of and essays by Carleigh Baker, David Bergen, Neil Bissoondath , George Bowering, George Elliott Clarke, Megan Coles, Douglas Coupland, Esi Edugyan, Marina Endicott, Will Ferguson, Camilla Gibb, Katherine Govier, Thomas King, Mary Lynk, David Macfarlane, Linden MacIntyre , Kevin Major, Heather ONeill, David Adams Richards, Noah Richler, Chic Scott, Johanna Skibsrud, Sara Tilley, Guy Vanderhaeghe, M.G. Vassanji, Thomas Wharton, and Kathleen Winter.
