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M is for Moose: A Charles
Pachter Alphabet
by Charles Pachter
$24
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The marriage of words and image is a trend in contemporary
art: visual artists are painting words, phrases, and sentences
onto their canvases. Taking this trend and applying it
to a children's book, Charles Pachter, one of Canada's
pre-eminent visual artists, has reviewed forty years of
work and matched a blend of familiar and new images with
words that explore the idea of Canada.
Charles Pachter is a painter, printmaker,
sculptor, designer, historian, and lecturer. He has degrees
from the University of Toronto, the Sorbonne in Paris,
and the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, as well as
an honorary doctorate from Brock University. At present
he resides in Toronto, where his work has been shown at
the Royal Ontario Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and
at the McMichael Gallery, and can be seen on the walls
of the College Street subway station.
A portion of the proceeds from this book
will go to The Arts Scholarship Fund
©2008 • Cormorant Books • 64
pages • hardcover • picture
book • 11.58 x 9.15 x
0.4 in • ISBN-10: 1897151330
• ISBN-13: 978-1897151334
Martin Knelman wrote a glowing review of
Charles Pachter's M is for Moose for the October
8 edition of The Toronto Star. The review was advertised on the very
front page of the newspaper and took up most of the front
page of the Entertainment section as well. In an article
brimming over with praise, Mr. Knelman saved the very best
line for last:
"I predict that not only will this book be a best-seller
this season but that it is destined to endure as one
of this country's all-time classics." |
