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Catton met Chicago-born poet Steven Toussaint at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and Toussaint moved to New Zealand in 2011 to begin a PhD in US avant-garde poetry at Victoria University of Wellington. [6] [38] The couple later lived in Mount Eden while Catton taught creative writing part-time at the Manukau Institute of Technology.
Toussaint was born in Birmingham to Barbadian parents and grew up on an estate in the New Cross [1] area of South London, [2] where his father worked for the London Underground and his mother worked as a nurse. His first taste of acting came in a school nativity play as a Roman centurion in a suit of Armour made from cardboard. [1]
His work with visual art reflects an active contemplation of the aesthetic qualities of language or linguistic mediums in concrete poetry, photo poetry, writing art, calligrams and asemic writing. Building on traditions like Dadaism and calligraphy art , it explores writing materials, the composition of handwriting and mark-making and the role ...
David Dougal Williams (June 1888–28 September 1944) – British artist and art teacher; Margaret Lindsay Williams (1888–1960) – Welsh portrait painter; Edith Grace Wheatley (1888–1970) – English painter; Robert Gibbings (1889–1958) – Irish artist and author known especially as a wood engraver and for books on travel and natural ...
In celebration of the art and life of this American printmaker and illustrator, independent filmmaker Michael Maglaras of 217 Films produced a film titled O Brother Man: The Art and Life of Lynd Ward. The documentary features an interview with the artist's daughter Robin Ward Savage, as well as more than 150 works from all periods of Ward's career.
The steel-facing of plates was a technical development patented in 1857 which "immediately revolutionized the print business". [9] It allowed a very thin coating of iron to be added to a copper plate by electroplating. This made the lines on the plates much more durable, and in particular the fragile "burr" thrown up by the drypoint process ...
The Spirit of the Age (full title The Spirit of the Age: Or, Contemporary Portraits) is a collection of character sketches by the early 19th century English essayist, literary critic, and social commentator William Hazlitt, portraying 25 men, mostly British, whom he believed to represent significant trends in the thought, literature, and politics of his time.
Wu Li, Chinese landscape painter, poet, and member of the Society of Jesus [620] Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina, Spanish Renaissance art whose works were often religious [621] [622] [623] Francisco Tito Yupanqui, known for Marian statues such as Virgin of Copacabana; [624] [625] [626] there is an effort to have him beatified [627] [628] [629]