{"title":"Mary Pratt","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"mary-pratt","title":"Mary Pratt","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The light in Pratt's paintings seems sentient, a living thing, a pulsation or emission, imbuing the paintings with an erotic and almost mystical desire.\" — \u003ci\u003eCanadian Art\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing a stunningly successful national touring exhibition and a sold-out hardcover edition of the accompanying book, \u003ci\u003eMary Pratt\u003c\/i\u003e is available once again in this elegant paperback edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSays the \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e, Mary Pratt's \"gorgeous, brutal vision of the world is the best revenge against anyone who ever sought to define her.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere's something deeply resonant about Pratt's painting for contemporary audiences — particularly for those that are food obsessed. The dark light of a jelly jar, the slippery weight of filleted cod, the dark drippings of a bloody roast, the wet yellow yolk of a cracked egg. Pratt takes these seemingly mundane subjects and fills them with light, giving them a monumental quality, making them seem luminous, signifiant, memorable. For many, they have become seared into memory, iconic in the best sense of the word.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMary Pratt\u003c\/i\u003e, a career retrospective, features five major essays by columnist and art critic Sarah Milroy, Catharine Mastin of the Art Gallery of Windsor, Mireille Eagan and Caroline Stone of The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, Sarah Fillmore of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, and art critic and curator Ray Cronin as well as 75 colour reproductions of Pratt's most renowned work, including \u003ci\u003eEggs in an Egg Crate\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSalmon on Saran\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEviscerated Chickens\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCod Fillets on Tin Foil\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMireille Eagan is curator of contemporary art at The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John's. Prior to this, she was curator at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Eagan has lectured nationally on Canadian art and has published several catalogues and essays on Canadian artists. She has a special interest in promoting the activities of artists based in the Atlantic provinces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSarah Milroy is Chief Curator at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. A highly respected art critic and exhibition curator, she has contributed to more than a dozen books on art, including \u003ci\u003eMary Pratt\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFrom the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDavid Milne: Modern Painting\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\n160 pages\u003cbr\u003ePub date: April 19, 2016\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ray Cronin, Mireille Eagan, Sarah Fillmore, Catharine Mastin, Sarah Milroy, Caroline Stone","offers":[{"title":"Paperback\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9780864928979\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$40.00","offer_id":31759761358,"sku":"9780864928979","price":40.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7679\/products\/1310.jpg?v=1489005386"},{"product_id":"a-personal-calligraphy-ebook","title":"A Personal Calligraphy (eBOOK)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Newfoundland and Labrador Writers' Association Prize for Non-Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary Pratt is famous throughout Canada for her luminous paintings and prints. Her 1995 exhibition, \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Mary Pratt: The Substance of Light\u003c\/i\u003e, drew record-breaking crowds on its tour of Canada. It also resulted in an unprecedented amount of press coverage on the biographical content of her work. The accompanying book by Tom Smart sold more than 6,000 copies and made almost every \"best book of the year\" list in Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMary Pratt: A Personal Calligraphy\u003c\/i\u003e features Mary's own writings, drawn and adapted from her personal journals, the essays that she has written for numerous publications ranging from \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e, and the lectures that she has given at many public events. For the first time, Mary has written her own book in her own words, rather than rely on others to write about her. Treating both public and private issues, she writes of her childhood in Fredericton — her connection to her family, life in Salmonier as a young mother, her decision to pursue her own career as an artist, and her complicated relationship with her husband, Christopher. She writes about public issues — the death of Joey Smallwood, the 50th anniversary of Newfoundland's entry into Confederation, and the cod fishery. She writes about the images that interest her and influence her art, and the process of painting. Like her paintings, Pratt's writing packs a sucker punch. At first it appears to be a paean to the pleasures of house and home, until the more disturbing aspects subtly reveal themselves. Ironing shirts become an erotic act; a memory of visiting the local market with her grandmother conjures images of violence; dead chickens, meticulously plucked, and carcasses of cattle, meticulously flayed, suggest rituals of sacrifice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Spring of 2001, Mary Pratt was awarded the Newfoundland and Labrador Writers' Association prize for Non-fiction for \u003ci\u003eA Personal Calligraphy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eMary Pratt's paintings have been exhibited in Canada's most influential galleries and reproduced in magazines. Mary Frances West Pratt was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, in 1935. She attended Mount Allison University and graduated with a bachelor of fine arts. In 1957, she married fellow student Christopher Pratt, and moved to Glasgow, Scotland. In 1959 they moved to Newfoundland, where Mary taught painting at Memorial University. During her career, Mary Pratt has steadily built a national recognition for her photo realist paintings and for her active role in cultural affairs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\"A multi-faceted, deliberately fragmentary, and thoroughly engaging self-portrait.\" — \u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Pratt combines journal entries, memoir and public utterance to reveal multiple subjectivities... Besides bearing witness to her consummate skill as a painter, the visuals become another form of autobiography... I feel that I have gained access to the heart of her artistic identity.\" — \u003ci\u003eCanadian Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e143 pages\u003cbr\u003ePub date: September 24, 2013\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Mary Pratt","offers":[{"title":"ePub\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9780864927927\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$19.95","offer_id":36837053454,"sku":"9780864927927","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7679\/files\/248_c4418be1-f01d-456e-95fa-18b4778dd518.jpg?v=1792569607"},{"product_id":"mary-pratt-ebook","title":"Mary Pratt (eBOOK)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, New Brunswick Book Award (Non-Fiction) \u003cbr\u003eWinner, APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary Pratt’s art has captivated millions of Canadians. Her luminescent paintings capture reality in a way that few artists have been able to achieve — the chip in a glass bowl, the play of light across a dish-strewn supper table, the vulnerability of a naked woman. Replete with symbolism, Pratt’s work elevates the traditional still life by transforming the everyday into the iconic. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArt historian Anne Koval wrote \u003ci\u003eMary Pratt: A Love Affair with Vision\u003c\/i\u003e in close consultation with Pratt. The book is informed by extensive interviews with the artist, and her family, friends, and colleagues and by unprecedented access to Pratt’s archival holdings at Mount Allison University. This in-depth study of Pratt’s life and work explores the complex issues of gender, feminism, and realism in Canadian art, resulting in a richly layered biography of an artist who redefined the visual culture of her period and whose art and life intersect in varied and surprising ways. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eAnne Koval is Professor of Art History, Museum and Curatorial Studies at Mount Allison University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eMary Pratt: A Love Affair with Vision\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhistler in His Time\u003c\/i\u003e, and the co-author of \u003ci\u003eJames McNeill Whistler: Beyond the Myth\u003c\/i\u003e. She has written on Anna Torma for the Textile Museum of Canada and her writing on contemporary art has appeared in several edited volumes, including \u003ci\u003eStitching the Self: Identity and the Needle Arts\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMore Caught in the Act: An Anthology of Performance Art by Canadian Women\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Radcliffe Line and Other Geographies: Sarindar Dhaliwal\u003c\/i\u003e, which includes a series of ekphrastic poems by Koval. She has curated exhibitions at the Owens Art Gallery, the Mendel Art Gallery, the Banff Park Museum, and the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, which included the work of Ed Pien, Merle McMaster, D’Arcy Wilson, Diana Thorneycroft, Aganetha Dyck, Barb Hunt, Jeannie Thib, Janice Wright Cheney, Cindy Sherman, and Sylvia Plath.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAwards\u003c\/h3\u003eWinner: New Brunswick Book Award (Non-Fiction)\u003cbr\u003eWinner: APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e“Anne Koval’s biography of Mary Pratt sings in sympathy with its subject. This intimate and engaging portrait of one of Canada’s greatest artists collapses the boundaries between biographer and biographee to produce a remarkable symbiosis of voice and vision.” — Helen Humphreys, author of \u003ci\u003eField Study\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Koval goes beyond the myths and tropes that surround Mary Pratt’s life and art, as she draws upon Pratt’s piercing intelligence and her remarkable, felt understanding of the mundane. She shows that, for Pratt, art was an act of love, one that couldn’t exist without sacrifice.” — Mireille Eagan, curator of contemporary art, The Rooms\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Incandescent, a word often applied to Mary Pratt’s paintings, perfectly describes this engrossing biography. \u003ci\u003eMary Pratt: A Love Affair with Vision\u003c\/i\u003e brings together the artist’s archives with deeply intimate interviews and exquisite reproductions of her photorealist paintings. Pratt, an iconic painter of light on food and objects in the grand tradition of Chardin, springs to life, blessed with a sublime interpreter in Koval.” — Molly Peacock, author of \u003ci\u003eFlower Diary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This evocative biography of Mary Pratt illuminates the passionate life and consummate art of our greatest female painter since Emily Carr. Woman, wife, mother, artist — Mary Pratt captivates with her delightful complexity and enthralling vision.” — The Rt. Hon. Adrienne Clarkson, author of \u003ci\u003eHeart Matters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The strength of Koval’s book (and there are many) is in the way she humanizes the artist. Hers is not an arid, objective disquisition. 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You will be glad to know her.” — \u003ci\u003eGalleries West\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This book is profoundly personal. Much has been written about Pratt — much of her own writing has been published — but there is still lots to delve into, to spend time with, to see. These pages are infused with her personality and history, which was welcoming, insightful, and complex. 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Her luminescent paintings capture reality in a way that few artists have been able to achieve — the chip in a glass bowl, the play of light across a dish-strewn supper table, the vulnerability of a naked woman. Replete with symbolism, Pratt’s work elevates the traditional still life by transforming the everyday into the iconic. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArt historian Anne Koval wrote \u003ci\u003eMary Pratt: A Love Affair with Vision\u003c\/i\u003e in close consultation with Pratt. The book is informed by extensive interviews with the artist, and her family, friends, and colleagues and by unprecedented access to Pratt’s archival holdings at Mount Allison University. 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She has curated exhibitions at the Owens Art Gallery, the Mendel Art Gallery, the Banff Park Museum, and the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, which included the work of Ed Pien, Merle McMaster, D’Arcy Wilson, Diana Thorneycroft, Aganetha Dyck, Barb Hunt, Jeannie Thib, Janice Wright Cheney, Cindy Sherman, and Sylvia Plath.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAwards\u003c\/h3\u003eWinner: New Brunswick Book Award (Non-Fiction)\u003cbr\u003eWinner: APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e“Anne Koval’s biography of Mary Pratt sings in sympathy with its subject. 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