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From: Paula Morrow <pmorrow23>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 18:55:36 -0500
I enjoy "Don't Hold Me Back" by Winfred Rembert, a self-taught artist who carves, hand-tools, and dyes on pieces of leather to create autobiographical art about growing up in the segregated South, hard times and good times alike. Very unusual and accessible "outsider art."
I also enjoy Family Pictures / Cuadros de mi familia by Carmen Lomas Garza, who uses both paint and cut paper to recreate vibrant scenes from her childhood in Texas.
Okay, neither book is sophisticated or "fine artsy," but I find myself poring over the pages and reveling in the fascinating details.
Paula
http://PaulaMorrow.com
On 6/6/06, Caroline Parr <CParr at crrl.org> wrote:
> "Round Buildings, Square Buildings and Buildings that Wiggle Like a Fish" by
> Philip M. Isaacson is an engaging book about architecture for young readers.
> What I appreciate most is the author's voice - reading the book is like
> going on a world tour with a guide who's passionate and informed.
>
> Of a mid-century modern house he writes, "Here is a house that is more glass
> than wood. Because its windows open whole walls to the out-of-doors, more
> than light moves through its rooms. The sky and snowstorms, birds and the
> floating moon, come indoors too."
>
> Clean, spare design and well-chosen color photographs of the Taj Mahal,
> Hadrian's Wall, a Shaker laundry, a fourteenth century Spanish synagogue and
> 89 more point out the elements that make each of these structures a work of
> art. Not a book to use for reports, but rather one that awakens a sense of
> wonder in the reader.
>
> Caroline
>
> Caroline S. Parr
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Received on Wed 07 Jun 2006 06:55:36 PM CDT
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 18:55:36 -0500
I enjoy "Don't Hold Me Back" by Winfred Rembert, a self-taught artist who carves, hand-tools, and dyes on pieces of leather to create autobiographical art about growing up in the segregated South, hard times and good times alike. Very unusual and accessible "outsider art."
I also enjoy Family Pictures / Cuadros de mi familia by Carmen Lomas Garza, who uses both paint and cut paper to recreate vibrant scenes from her childhood in Texas.
Okay, neither book is sophisticated or "fine artsy," but I find myself poring over the pages and reveling in the fascinating details.
Paula
http://PaulaMorrow.com
On 6/6/06, Caroline Parr <CParr at crrl.org> wrote:
> "Round Buildings, Square Buildings and Buildings that Wiggle Like a Fish" by
> Philip M. Isaacson is an engaging book about architecture for young readers.
> What I appreciate most is the author's voice - reading the book is like
> going on a world tour with a guide who's passionate and informed.
>
> Of a mid-century modern house he writes, "Here is a house that is more glass
> than wood. Because its windows open whole walls to the out-of-doors, more
> than light moves through its rooms. The sky and snowstorms, birds and the
> floating moon, come indoors too."
>
> Clean, spare design and well-chosen color photographs of the Taj Mahal,
> Hadrian's Wall, a Shaker laundry, a fourteenth century Spanish synagogue and
> 89 more point out the elements that make each of these structures a work of
> art. Not a book to use for reports, but rather one that awakens a sense of
> wonder in the reader.
>
> Caroline
>
> Caroline S. Parr
> Youth Services Coordinator
> Central Rappahannock Regional Library
> 1201 Caroline St., Fredericksburg, VA 22401
> voice: 540-372-1160 / fax: 540-373-9411
> www.LibraryPoint.org
>
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