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The girls with stone faces

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    Brick Books, 2017
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    Brick Books, 2017
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Paré, Arleen
    Date:
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    2017
    Summary:

    A long poem memorializing the art and lives of sculptors Frances Loring and Florence Wyle. Arleen Paré, in her first book-length poem after her Governor General Literary Award-winning Lake of Two Mountains, turns her cool, benevolent eye to the shared lives of Florence Wyle and Frances Loring, two of Canada's greatest artists, whose sculptures she comes face to face with at the National Gallery of Canada. In the guise of a curator, Paré takes us on a moving, carefully structured tour through the rooms where their work is displayed, the Gallery's walls falling away to travel in time.

    Contents:
    • Intro; Contents; First Rooms and . . .; Heartâ#x80;#x99;s Arrow; Arrested Motion: Art, Life; Frances and the Red Velvet Cape; Torso 1: The History of Art; In the National Gallery, Room A105; First Love; Frances Loved Florence; Chicago: At First Sight; The National Gallery: Unguarded I Would Have CaressedEvery Surface; On the Way In, Three Woman in Bronze; Outside the Room in Two Dimensions; Florenceâ#x80;#x99;s Father; Francesâ#x80;#x99;s Father; Games in the Inuit Gallery; Florence and Her Twin Brother; The Mothers; Motherhood; The Babies; Torso 2; Frances Recalling How Florence; Florence Loved Frances; First Home. Having Been Made to Abandon Their LivesTechnicalities of Neoclassical Sculpture in the Beaux ArtsTradition; More Room; November 27, 1920, Toronto Daily Star, Arts News; This Church Is a Ghazal; Florence: Day by Day; Frances: Day by Day; Torso 3; The Group Poses Stiffly; Rooms with Rumours, Ruminations; Torso 4; Florence Sets Her Compass; No Sidesaddle Beauty; Say; Magnetic North; The Lure of Light; Her Name Was Ana Mangurin; Florenceâ#x80;#x99;s Compass; Matters of Taste; Rooms without Enough Room; On Relief in the Thirties; How Heavy Art 1; How Heavy Art 2; To Age in New Light; Under Glass; Identity. How Art WorksThey Hated His Monsters 1; His Monsters 2; Torso 5; His Monsters 3; His Monsters 4; Two Factory Girls Carry a Rail; His Monsters 5; Loring and Wyle: Core Drilling; Last Rooms; All Things Removed; Unsure; Another Grief: Summer Afternoon at the AGO; Florence: Bracing for Cold; Industry; All Things Being Dear; Frances Grew Blind; Beloved of Fingers; Iâ#x80;#x99;m Still in Love; Fourteen Lines About Beauty; Guide to the Plants of Toronto; Notes and Acknowledgments.
    Genre:
    Canadian poetry
    Subject(s): Canadian poetry | Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) | Loring, Frances | Wyle, Florence
    Original Publisher: London, Ontario, Brick Books
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781771314664, 1771314664, 1771314656, 9781771314657