Artists

An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, the term is also often used in the entertainment business, especially in a business context, for musicians and other performers (although less often for actors). "Artiste" (the French for artist) is a variant used in English in this context, but this use has become rare. Use of the term "artist" to describe writers is valid, but less common, and mostly …

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CPRC: University of Regina Press · 29 October 2024 English

A collection of memories chronicling love, grief, and a life lived on and off stage Raised on a farm and educated in a prairie Bible school, Layne Coleman escapes the …

clown, cast forever on the lowest rung of the artists’ food chain. Still, I aspired to be a tragedian tortured her. That she entered rooms filled with artists and felt chills coming from all corners and did


DDN: Dundurn Press · 29 October 2024 English

“Honest and insightful, a testament to Japanese Canadian resilience.” — KERRI SAKAMOTO, author of Floating CityWhen the North American dream meets traditional Japanese conformity, two cultures collide. Does the past …

unique signature and distinguishing mark among artists. THE NAIL THAT STICKS OUT 54CHAPTER 4 FIRST TO


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 25 October 2024 English

Between Composers unveils the previously unpublished correspondence between Canadian composers Norma Beecroft and Harry Somers from 1959 to 1960. The letters detail the downfall of their romance, trace their artistic …

stage which is affecting even older generations of artists ~ They, however, are having perhaps a little easier Canadian theatre in these years, as well as to artists such as Jack Nichols and Graham Coughtry and a taste ~ a born snob, but it is true that ‘we artists’ are born classless.… … Tomorrow, at 5:15am, we


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 22 October 2024 English

Stories Left in Stone explores the lives, histories, and artistic legacies of Cáceres and Extremadura. Author Troy Nahumko has lived in the old town of Cáceres, a UNESCO World Heritage …

stressing the importance of not confusing cave artists with the idea of cavemen. Whatever the case, it elaborate, more correct. Reducing the beliefs of the artists to those of soothsayers, we presuppose that, with


CPRC: University of Regina Press · 22 October 2024 English

A guide from bestselling author Alice Kuipers on how to write for children and young adults—from igniting an initial idea to creating a finished draft In Spark, acclaimed children’s and …

pages. Take a look at her well-known book The Artists’ Way for more on this. Maybe you prefer to write


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

Critic, translator, essayist, and gay man, Édouard Roditi (1910–1992) was a singular witness to the twentieth century. His writings over six decades are a unique account of a life lived …

significance in the works of leading writers and artists, including a monograph on Oscar Wilde (1947, reprinted correspondence with dozens of writers, publishers, and artists offers a treasure-trove of insights into lesbian prospered as printers, booksellers, scholars, artists, and professional men. A great printing press


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

Slings & Arrows, starring Susan Coyne, Paul Gross, Don McKellar, and Mark McKinney as members of the New Burbage Theatre Festival, was heralded by television critics as one of the …

processes develop a certain autonomy to which artists and audiences then become answerable, or what we


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

A thorough account of the cultural achievements of the anthropologist and media scholar Edmund Snow Carpenter.

to directors of museums, critics, collectors, artists and so on” (92; 87). The directive notes that the


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 October 2024 English

With a shock, these frankenlines come alive. In Recombinant Theory a monster surges forth, a new freedom is sung.

from others. The city had been taken over by artists. Below in the winter light stood the explorers physical machines that had been taken over by artists. At the time, I saw my life as revolutionary. their hands if fierce and unreasonable: what artists would recognize it? Whenever I meet new people love with inhaling deeply via a cigarette. What artists would huddle together closely for warmth, holding of collaboration and interaction is left to the artists involved. We will close gaps, see motion, make


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

Across cultures, democracies struggle with intolerant groups, misinformation, social media conspiracies, and extreme populists. Egalitarian cultures cannot always withstand this swing towards the irrational. In Irrational Publics and the Fate …

rationality by deca- dent or alienated writers, artists, and composers. Each swing contains component is wicked. Western theologians, philosophers, artists, and political thinkers have mixed concepts from prayer, ecstatic communication, and other means. Artists should paint edifying and beautiful depictions of a lynching mob, or we slum with struggling artists who share a passion for counterculture works that


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