This is an absolutely stunning, whimsical treat for anyone who has loved The Wizard of Oz, or anything by William Joyce or Tim Burton, and most of all for anyone who loves a good story. Visually enchanting and a gentle reminder of what the world would be like without books. I’d be very surprised if [...]
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New Deal Era Art and Writing … reviewed by Jason
Posted in Adult Nonfiction, Art, History, tagged 1934 A New Deal for Artists, and Democracy, Art, David Larkin, FDR and The New Deal For Beginners, Mark Kurlansky, Michael Hiltzik, New Deal A Modern History, Paul Buhle, Roger G Kennedy, Sabrina Jones, Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Food of a Younger Land, When Art Worked The New Deal on November 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Recovery from hard economic times requires focus on the essentials: employment, health, infrastructure, education. Even in the best of times, art usually figures somewhere near the bottom in priorities. But during the Great Depression in the United States, the Roosevelt administration initiated, among a slew of other New Deal programs, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) [...]
Waste Land (DVD) … reviewed by Lily Pearl
Posted in Art, Documentary, DVDs, tagged Lucy Walker, Waste Land on September 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Imagine developing art pieces from objects found in a landfill? Waste Land was filmed over a three-year period. The documentary takes you on a journey with artist Vik Muniz as he travels from his home in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and to the world’s largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located in Rio de Janeiro. [...]
Lower East Side Stories … reviewed by Jason
Posted in Adult Nonfiction, Art, Music, tagged 1966-1971, All Yesterday’s Parties: The Velvet Underground in Print, and Richard Farina, Bob Dylan, Clinton Heylin, David Hajdu, Just Kids, Mimi Baez Farina, Patti Smith, Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Robert Mapplethorpe on August 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The Lower East Side of Manhattan was, for most of the last century, a hotbead of bohemian and artist activity. Sample some of it through the eyes of those who were there. The lives and musical careers of the seminal proto-punk band The Velvet Underground are examined via their reviews in Clinton Heylin’s All Yesterday’s [...]
Sister and I: From Victoria to London … reviewed by Ann
Posted in Adult Nonfiction, Art, Canadiana, History, tagged Emily Carr, Sister and I: From Victoria to London on July 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
BC Day Book Review This 92-page illustrated journal was created by Emily Carr in 1910 during a two-month journey she took with her sister Alice across Canada by CPR train and then on the SS Empress of Ireland across the Atlantic to England. I love the caricature-style watercolour sketches that accompany the text. Some of [...]
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