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Mary Pratt : a love affair with vision / Anne Koval.

by Koval, Anne.

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Goose Lane Editions, 2023.

Pratt, Mary, 1935-2018.

Pratt, Mary, 1935- -- Criticism and interpreation.

Pratt, Mary, 1935- -- Exhibitions.

Painters -- Canada -- Biography.

Painters -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography.

APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award.

9781773101729 (hc.)

316 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.

Anne Koval is Professor of Art History, Museum and Curatorial Studies at Mount Allison University. She is the author of Mary Pratt: A Love Affair with Vision, Whistler in His Time, and the co-author of James McNeill Whistler: Beyond the Myth. She has written on Anna Torma for the Textile Museum of Canada and her writing on contemporary art has appeared in several edited volumes. She has curated exhibitions at the Owens Art Gallery, the Mendel Art Gallery, the Banff Park Museum, and the Confederation Centre Art Gallery.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A richly layered biography of an artist whose work redefined the visual culture of a generation. It explores the complex issues of gender, feminism, and realism in Canadian art.

"Mary 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. Art historian Anne Koval wrote Mary Pratt: A Love Affair with Vision 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."--Barnes & Noble.

Winner of the APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award, 2023.

Pratt, Mary, 1935-2018, artist.

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