The old English sheepdog (Popular dogs' breed series)

Literature & Fiction

Davis, Ann

Literary

Popular Dogs Publishing

The first biography of Christiane Pflug, this book tells the story of one of Canada's most important realist painters, who was born to a liberated fashion designer in Berlin, but was spared the Nazi's camps for evacuee children by taking refuge with a rigidly Roman Catholic family in the Austrian Tyrol. Reunited with her mother only in her mid-teens, she found her artistic destiny in Paris when she met Michael Pflug, an intense medical student who was also an artist. Pygmalion-like, he urged Christiane to become a painter, and directed her career as she became an acclaimed Canadian artist, until her depression and subsequent suicide in 1972. Davis draws on unpublished manuscripts, letters, interviews, and Christiane's paintings and drawings to tell a fascinating story that ranges from Germany and France to Tunisia and Toronto.

Somewhere Waiting: The Life and Art of Christiane Pflug

Oxford University Press

Money as a Social Institution: The Institutional Development of Capitalism (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)

Money is usually understood as a valuable object, the value of which is attributed to it by its users and which other users recognize. It serves to link disparate institutions, providing a disguised whole and prime tool for the “invisible hand” of the market. This book offers an interpretation of money as a social institution. Money provides the link between the household and the firm, the worker and his product, making that very division seem natural and money as imminently practical. Money as a Social Institution begins in the medieval period and traces the evolution of money alongside consequent implications for the changing models of the corporation and the state. This is then followed with double-entry accounting as a tool of long-distance merchants and bankers, then the monitoring of the process of production by professional corporate managers. Davis provides a framework of analysis for examining money historically, beyond the operation of those particular institutions, which includes the possibility of conceptualizing and organizing the world differently. This volume is of great importance to academics and students who are interested in economic history and history of economic thought, as well as international political economics and critique of political economy.

Business & Money

Economics

Routledge

Social Work

Social Work: Voices from the Inside offers unique insight into social work from the perspectives of those ‘on the inside’, that is, service users, carers and practitioners. Drawing on a narrative tradition, fifty-nine people from across the UK tell their stories about how and why social work came into their lives, and what happened next. Key topics are discussed, including: children and family social work criminal justice social work mental health social work residential child care social work with disabled people social work with older people lessons for the future. Focusing on issues for good practice in social work and social work education, this book is essential reading for students and academics of social work and social policy. It will also appeal to social work professionals and those in allied health, education and care areas.

Social Work: Voices from the inside

Politics & Social Sciences

Cree, Viviene E.

Social Sciences

The residential solution: State alternatives to family care (Tavistock library of social work practice)

Tavistock

Residential Solution

Routledge& Kegan Paul

Our understanding of twentieth-century art is largely based on an aesthetic tradition initiated by the Impressionists, Cezanne, and the Cubists. However, painting that is mystically rather than aesthetically realized can not be examined within this tradition. What is needed is a new context, one which allows us to probe the mystical experience and teachings that motivate visionary painters. This book examines the ways in which Bertram Brooker, Emily Carr, Lawren Harris, Jock Macdonald, and Fred Varley, five of the most dynamic and innovative Canadian painters of the period 1920-1940, used mystical form rather than aesthetically initiated form in their painting.None of these painters was motivated solely by mystical concerns; each of them also painted works which were of a secular or non-spiritual nature. None the less, they were all deeply interested in and concerned about matters mystical. Through a careful examination of the primary documentation Ann Davis looks at the sources of their beliefs in Christianity, transcendentalism, and theosophy and theories of the fourth dimension, and attempts to put some of their major works into new contexts so that familiar paintings can be seen in a new and revealing mystical way.Each artist in his or her own way wanted to capture the logic of ecstasy. Their mystical works were conjured up more through contemplation and self-surrender than from direct personal experience. These paintings provided not so much a feast for the eye or an arena for the emotions as a launching pad for the spirit, and an outward manifestation of the hidden spiritual dimension of reality which pervades both nature and oneself.

The Logic of Ecstasy: Canadian Mystical Painting, 1920-1940

Arts & Photography

Painting

Univ of Toronto Pr

Twentieth-century art has usually been analysed in terms of intellectual aesthetic principles. But several important artists of this century were motivated less by aesthetic ideas than by spiritual values. Ann Davis considers the work of five of the most dynamic and innovative Canadian painters of the period: Bertram Brooker, Emily Carr, Lawren Harris, Jock Macdonald, and Fred Varley. She shows how these artists strove to work with mystical forms, those involved a transcendent, direct, selfless, unitive experience of God or ultimate reality.None of these artists was motivated solely by mystical concerns, but each was deeply interested in such matters. In focusing on those works, writings, as well as painting, which do reflect their fascination with spiritual issues, we are able to se how these artists tried, in very individual ways, to delineate their visions of eternal life.

The Logic of Ecstasy: Canadian Mystical Painting, 1920-1940 (Heritage)

History & Criticism

University of Toronto Press

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