Carol Wainio
Persistent Images
- Publisher
- Art Gallery of York University
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2012
- Category
- Contemporary (1945-), Canadian, General
-
Unknown
- ISBN
- 9780921972259
- Publish Date
- Aug 2012
- List Price
- $12
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Description
Carol Wainio's painted series Baby Books place images and texts in physical and conceptual opposition to one another. This idea is further explored in the award-winning essay by Nancy Tousley, along with biographical information on the artist. Winner of the 1999 Ontario Association of Art Galleries Curatorial Writing Award. Designed by Lewis Nicholson.
About the authors
Nancy Tousley, recipient of the Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts for outstanding contribution, is a nationally known senior art critic, arts journalist, and independent curator. Based in Calgary, she was the art critic of the Calgary Herald for thirty years, as well as a contributing editor to Canadian Art magazine, for which she wrote regularly. She contributes regularly to Border Crossings magazine and has written essays for more than sixty public art gallery and museum catalogues and books.
Nancy Tousley, lauréate du Prix du Gouverneur général pour les arts visuels et médiatiques pour sa contribution exceptionnelle, est une critique d’art, journaliste et conservatrice indépendante de renommée nationale. Établie à Calgary, elle a été critique d’art au Calgary Herald pendant 30 ans, ainsi que rédactrice en chef du magazine Canadian Art, pour lequel elle écrivait régulièrement. Elle collabore régulièrement au magazine Border Crossings et a rédigé des essais pour une soixantaine de catalogues et livres publiés par des galeries d’art publiques et des musées.
