Mary Pratt

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Publication Year:
2023

ISBN-13: 9781773101736

<p><b>Winner, New Brunswick Book Award (Non-Fiction) and APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award</b></p><p>Mary Pratt&#8217;s art has captivated millions of Canadians. Her luminescent paintings capture reality in a way that few artists have been able to achieve &#8212; 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&#8217;s work elevates the traditional still life by transforming the everyday into the iconic. </p><p>Art historian Anne Koval wrote <i>Mary Pratt: A Love Affair with Vision</i> 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&#8217;s archival holdings at Mount Allison University. This in-depth study of Pratt&#8217;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. </p>