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Mahler’s Lament by Deborah KirshnerISBN # 978-1-926802-61-9 NOVELLA SERIES 120 pages $16.95 October 2011
Gustav Mahler was 29 years old when he conducted his first symphony,“The Titan,” in Budapest on November 20, 1889. The performance wasone of the biggest “disasters” of his career and it came on the heels ofanother catastrophe: an adulterous love affair with the wife of his patron,Maria von Weber. Mahler’s Lament is an elaborate and multi-layeredportrayal of one of the world's greatest composers at this turbulent pointin his life. Mahler is depicted as a morally ambivalent man who is foreverreflecting on mortality and failure. It is the first ever historical fiction ofhis scandalous love affair.
Deborah Kirshner has spent her adult life as a professional violinist. She studiedwith Itzhak Perlman at Brooklyn College, where she enrolled in a Mastersprogram. In 2003 she published her first article, “The Genius of Django,” forThe Walrus Magazine which earned her a Gold National Magazine Award inArts and Literature. She subsequently published two more pieces that alsoreceived national attention. In 2006 she was awarded a fellowship for CreativeNon-Fiction at the Banff Center. Mahler’s Lament is her first novella.
In the Mind’s Eye by Barbara PonomareffISBN # 978-1-926802-49-7 NOVELLA SERIES 120 pages $16.95 October 2011
Surrender is a wacky tale about a defunct school mascot, Chesterthe Beaver, and how he comes back to haunt the school principalresponsible for his demise. It is a witty and outrageously funnybook, abounding in linguistic pyrotechnics and saturated withliterary and pop cultural references. But underneath the comicsurface of the story are deep questions concerning the nature of freewill.
After growing up in Montreal, Peter Learn moved toEdmonton and met his wife, Paula. He spent hiscareer there as an elementary school principal. Afterretiring, he travelled with his wife for two years beforethey settled in Canmore, Alberta. He is an activeoutdoorsman. Surrender is his first book.
Constance, Across grippingly affirms that the journey to selfhood is not the pathwe choose, but one that chooses us.
Constance, Across by Richard CumynISBN # 978-1-926802-59-6 NOVELLA SERIES 124 pages $16.95 October 2011
“I get the urge for going but I never seem to go.” –Joni Mitchell.
Constance Hardy is at a mental and emotional standstill and she seemsto be doing nothing about it. But one winter morning, she witnesses ashocking death and her transformation begins. Finally, this middle-agedhigh school teacher, unhappy wife and mother of a troubled teenager,responds by detonating a series of personal explosions that hurl her as faras possible from her old self.
Richard Cumyn is the author of five collections of shortfiction, most recently The Young in Their Country (Enfield &Wizenty, 2010), and a novella, The View from Tamischeira(Beach Holme / Dundurn Press, 2003). A past fictioneditor of The Antigonish Review, Richard is widelypublished in Canada, his work appearing regularly in TheNew Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, The Globe andMail and The Literary Review of Canada, among others.
It is the end of the Great War and returning soldiers are bringing theirshattered minds back home with them. For Caitlin, who is one of thefirst female graduates in psychology and an intern at the TorontoHospital for the Insane, this is a critical time. Her professional and heremotional lives are complicated by a relationship with a youngschizophrenic patient and the haunting encounter with a traumatizedyoung lawyer just returned from the battlefield.
Sumptuously written and meticulously crafted, this novella brings to lifean important part of Toronto’s past.
Surrender by Peter Learn ISBN # 978-1-926802-51-0 NOVELLA SERIES 114 pages $16.95 October 2011
Barbara Ponomareff has been a child psychotherapist byprofession. Since her retirement she has been able topursue her life-long interest in literature, psychologyand art. She has published a novella on the painter J.S.Chardin, and several short stories in various literarymagazines, as well as poetry in anthologies andprofessional journals.
Written with grace and intelligence, this book brings to life the soul of a young genius.
Surrender is a confection for the brain, candy for the wicked.
Without Blue by Chris D’IorioISBN # 978-1-926802-55-8 POETRY SERIES 90 pages $16.95 October 2011
The poetry in Without Blue is postmodern in approach, butinformed not only by theory and wide referentiality, but agroundedness in experience and social and political concerns.D’Iorio is a mature writer who waited a long time to perfect hisart and craft and has developed a body of work which, even at itsmost oblique, can be relished for style, substance and technique.
Chris has degrees in Literary Studies & Semioticsand Law from the University of Toronto. He worksfor an accounting firm providing tax advice on equity-based compensation, and also serves on the board ofdirectors for SKETCH working arts for Toronto’shomeless and street involved youth. He is involvedwith the editorial collective for influencysalon.ca. Hispoetry and short fiction have appeared in FillingStation and other journals, and he is a past winner ofthe Hart House Literary Contest. This is his firstbook of poetry.
ISBN # 978-1-926802-57-2 POETRY SERIES 90 pages $16.95 October 2011
When the Earth by Lisa YoungISBN # 978-1-926802-63-3 POETRY SERIES 90 pages $16.95 October 2011
Young’s exploration of the moment probes the boundaries betweenthe everyday and the esoteric. With clarity and simplicity, she mapsout a reality that is both spiritual and pragmatic. From “Field andSky” to the “Observatory,” When the Earth investigates the invisibleworld, conjured by urban and natural landscapes as well as theterrain of our essential relationships.
Lisa Young’s work has appeared in Jones Av.,Misunderstandings Magazine, Quills Canadian PoetryMagazine, and Rampike, among others. She is a fictioneditor and senior poetry editor for Existere. Shebelongs to the Plasticine Poetry Collective, andMoosemeat as well as a few other long-standingwriting groups in Toronto. When the Earth is her firstpoetry collection.
jumping in the asylum by Patrick Friesen
And, tell, tulip, the summer by Allan GraubardISBN # 978-1-926802-64-0 POETRY SERIES 120 pages $16.95 October 2011
And, tell, tulip, the summer charts a journey over several years andcontinents amidst the turmoil and conflict that mark our time.Episodic, combustive, lyrical and urbane, its poems and storiescapture and captivate the world we know and wish to know. Thebook unfolds like a storied map, from the war-torn Balkans, to theSahel, where sand and sky compel extreme disjunctions, to Parisand New York, where culture and commerce dance their deadlytango, to Cajun Louisiana, where cane farmers struggle to survive.
A former resident of Winnipeg, Patrick Friesenmoved to the west coast of Canada in 1996 and nowlives on Vancouver Island. He has published morethan a dozen books of poetry and a book of essays. ABroken Bowl (1997) was short-listed for the GovernorGeneral’s Award, and Blasphemer’s Wheel won theManitoba Book Award. He has also written severalstage and radio plays, text for dance, and recorded twoCDs of spoken word and improv music with MarilynLerner. His most recent book was Earth’s CrudeGravities (Harbour, 2007).
New Yorker Allan Graubard’s poems, plays, literary andart criticism have been published in the United Statesand internationally, often in translation. His poetrybooks include Rom Amor and For Alejandra. Notableamong his plays is Woman Bomb/Sade. His most recentpublication is the anthology Invisible Heads: Surrealistsin North America, an Untold Story.
Wide-ranging in subject, deeply intuitive and layered in style,influenced equally by the cadences of jazz and by the Bible, thepoems in jumping in the asylum will stand out among thisdistinguished author’s strongest work.
Without Blue gives Postmodernism a soul!
An outstanding collection by a preeminent Canadian poet.
Lisa Young's poetic seismograph records the heart's subtlest stirrings.
A compelling odyssey through fascinating times.
Mahler’s Lament by Deborah KirshnerISBN # 978-1-926802-61-9 NOVELLA SERIES 120 pages $16.95 October 2011
Gustav Mahler was 29 years old when he conducted his first symphony,“The Titan,” in Budapest on November 20, 1889. The performance wasone of the biggest “disasters” of his career and it came on the heels ofanother catastrophe: an adulterous love affair with the wife of his patron,Maria von Weber. Mahler’s Lament is an elaborate and multi-layeredportrayal of one of the world's greatest composers at this turbulent pointin his life. Mahler is depicted as a morally ambivalent man who is foreverreflecting on mortality and failure. It is the first ever historical fiction ofhis scandalous love affair.
Deborah Kirshner has spent her adult life as a professional violinist. She studiedwith Itzhak Perlman at Brooklyn College, where she enrolled in a Mastersprogram. In 2003 she published her first article, “The Genius of Django,” forThe Walrus Magazine which earned her a Gold National Magazine Award inArts and Literature. She subsequently published two more pieces that alsoreceived national attention. In 2006 she was awarded a fellowship for CreativeNon-Fiction at the Banff Center. Mahler’s Lament is her first novella.
In the Mind’s Eye by Barbara PonomareffISBN # 978-1-926802-49-7 NOVELLA SERIES 120 pages $16.95 October 2011
Surrender is a wacky tale about a defunct school mascot, Chesterthe Beaver, and how he comes back to haunt the school principalresponsible for his demise. It is a witty and outrageously funnybook, abounding in linguistic pyrotechnics and saturated withliterary and pop cultural references. But underneath the comicsurface of the story are deep questions concerning the nature of freewill.
After growing up in Montreal, Peter Learn moved toEdmonton and met his wife, Paula. He spent hiscareer there as an elementary school principal. Afterretiring, he travelled with his wife for two years beforethey settled in Canmore, Alberta. He is an activeoutdoorsman. Surrender is his first book.
Constance, Across grippingly affirms that the journey to selfhood is not the pathwe choose, but one that chooses us.
Constance, Across by Richard CumynISBN # 978-1-926802-59-6 NOVELLA SERIES 124 pages $16.95 October 2011
“I get the urge for going but I never seem to go.” –Joni Mitchell.
Constance Hardy is at a mental and emotional standstill and she seemsto be doing nothing about it. But one winter morning, she witnesses ashocking death and her transformation begins. Finally, this middle-agedhigh school teacher, unhappy wife and mother of a troubled teenager,responds by detonating a series of personal explosions that hurl her as faras possible from her old self.
Richard Cumyn is the author of five collections of shortfiction, most recently The Young in Their Country (Enfield &Wizenty, 2010), and a novella, The View from Tamischeira(Beach Holme / Dundurn Press, 2003). A past fictioneditor of The Antigonish Review, Richard is widelypublished in Canada, his work appearing regularly in TheNew Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, The Globe andMail and The Literary Review of Canada, among others.
It is the end of the Great War and returning soldiers are bringing theirshattered minds back home with them. For Caitlin, who is one of thefirst female graduates in psychology and an intern at the TorontoHospital for the Insane, this is a critical time. Her professional and heremotional lives are complicated by a relationship with a youngschizophrenic patient and the haunting encounter with a traumatizedyoung lawyer just returned from the battlefield.
Sumptuously written and meticulously crafted, this novella brings to lifean important part of Toronto’s past.
Surrender by Peter Learn ISBN # 978-1-926802-51-0 NOVELLA SERIES 114 pages $16.95 October 2011
Barbara Ponomareff has been a child psychotherapist byprofession. Since her retirement she has been able topursue her life-long interest in literature, psychologyand art. She has published a novella on the painter J.S.Chardin, and several short stories in various literarymagazines, as well as poetry in anthologies andprofessional journals.
Written with grace and intelligence, this book brings to life the soul of a young genius.
Surrender is a confection for the brain, candy for the wicked.
Without Blue by Chris D’IorioISBN # 978-1-926802-55-8 POETRY SERIES 90 pages $16.95 October 2011
The poetry in Without Blue is postmodern in approach, butinformed not only by theory and wide referentiality, but agroundedness in experience and social and political concerns.D’Iorio is a mature writer who waited a long time to perfect hisart and craft and has developed a body of work which, even at itsmost oblique, can be relished for style, substance and technique.
Chris has degrees in Literary Studies & Semioticsand Law from the University of Toronto. He worksfor an accounting firm providing tax advice on equity-based compensation, and also serves on the board ofdirectors for SKETCH working arts for Toronto’shomeless and street involved youth. He is involvedwith the editorial collective for influencysalon.ca. Hispoetry and short fiction have appeared in FillingStation and other journals, and he is a past winner ofthe Hart House Literary Contest. This is his firstbook of poetry.
ISBN # 978-1-926802-57-2 POETRY SERIES 90 pages $16.95 October 2011
When the Earth by Lisa YoungISBN # 978-1-926802-63-3 POETRY SERIES 90 pages $16.95 October 2011
Young’s exploration of the moment probes the boundaries betweenthe everyday and the esoteric. With clarity and simplicity, she mapsout a reality that is both spiritual and pragmatic. From “Field andSky” to the “Observatory,” When the Earth investigates the invisibleworld, conjured by urban and natural landscapes as well as theterrain of our essential relationships.
Lisa Young’s work has appeared in Jones Av.,Misunderstandings Magazine, Quills Canadian PoetryMagazine, and Rampike, among others. She is a fictioneditor and senior poetry editor for Existere. Shebelongs to the Plasticine Poetry Collective, andMoosemeat as well as a few other long-standingwriting groups in Toronto. When the Earth is her firstpoetry collection.
jumping in the asylum by Patrick Friesen
And, tell, tulip, the summer by Allan GraubardISBN # 978-1-926802-64-0 POETRY SERIES 120 pages $16.95 October 2011
And, tell, tulip, the summer charts a journey over several years andcontinents amidst the turmoil and conflict that mark our time.Episodic, combustive, lyrical and urbane, its poems and storiescapture and captivate the world we know and wish to know. Thebook unfolds like a storied map, from the war-torn Balkans, to theSahel, where sand and sky compel extreme disjunctions, to Parisand New York, where culture and commerce dance their deadlytango, to Cajun Louisiana, where cane farmers struggle to survive.
A former resident of Winnipeg, Patrick Friesenmoved to the west coast of Canada in 1996 and nowlives on Vancouver Island. He has published morethan a dozen books of poetry and a book of essays. ABroken Bowl (1997) was short-listed for the GovernorGeneral’s Award, and Blasphemer’s Wheel won theManitoba Book Award. He has also written severalstage and radio plays, text for dance, and recorded twoCDs of spoken word and improv music with MarilynLerner. His most recent book was Earth’s CrudeGravities (Harbour, 2007).
New Yorker Allan Graubard’s poems, plays, literary andart criticism have been published in the United Statesand internationally, often in translation. His poetrybooks include Rom Amor and For Alejandra. Notableamong his plays is Woman Bomb/Sade. His most recentpublication is the anthology Invisible Heads: Surrealistsin North America, an Untold Story.
Wide-ranging in subject, deeply intuitive and layered in style,influenced equally by the cadences of jazz and by the Bible, thepoems in jumping in the asylum will stand out among thisdistinguished author’s strongest work.
Without Blue gives Postmodernism a soul!
An outstanding collection by a preeminent Canadian poet.
Lisa Young's poetic seismograph records the heart's subtlest stirrings.
A compelling odyssey through fascinating times.
BACKLIST
Retina Green by Reinhard FilterISBN # 9781926802114 $16.95Tobacco Wars by Paul Seesequasis ISBN # 9781926802121 $16.95 Gazeby Keith CadieuxISBN # 9781926802107 $16.95The Sea by Amela MarinISBN # 9781926802091 $16.9The Panic Buttonby Koom KankesanISBN # 978-1-926802-30-5 $16.95 Graceby Vanessa SmithISBN # 978-1-926802-26-8 $16.95Break Meby Tom ReynoldsISBN # 978-1-926802-32-9 $16.95
Rough Wildernessby Rosemary AubertISBN # 9781926802411 $16.95Saugeenby Rob RolfeISBN # 9781926802398 $16.95Book of Disordersby Luciano IacobelliISBN # 978-1-926802-28-2 $16.95Strong Breadby Giovanna RiccioISBN # 978-1-926802-34-3 $16.95Interstellarby Allan Briesmaster ISBN # 9780978280604 $16.95hold the note by Domenico CapilongoISBN # 9781926802084 $16.95syrinx and systoleby Matthew RemskiISBN # 9781926802077 $16.95
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The Ballad of Martin B. by Michael MirollaISBN # 978-1-926802-53-4 NOVELLA SERIES 134 pages $16.95 October 2011
The Ballad of Martin B. uses the punk world as a background for itsplot. It follows a young anarchist whose determination to tear downsociety’s complacency is being guided by ghosts of past thinkers. Notonly does the narrative realistically capture the squalor and degeneracyof a very raw underground scene, it also engages the readerintellectually by delving into age-old philosphical issues.
Michael Mirolla’s publications include two novels: Berlin (aBressani Prize winner and finalist for the Indie Book andNational Best Books Awards) and The Facility, which featuresa string of cloned Mussolinis; two short story collections anda poetry collection (Light And Time, Guernica Editions,2010). His short story “A Theory of Discontinuous Existence”was a Journey Prize Anthology selection, while “The Sand Flea”was nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
This book is a Clockwork Orange on anti-depressants. What Anthony Burgessreally wanted to convey but couldn’t quite get down to it because he was afraid of the
raw sexual slashing and clashing.
The Hawk by Rob Rolfe ISBN # 9780978280673 $15.95 My Etruscan Face by Gianna Patriarca ISBN # 9780978280635 $16.95 Garden VarietyEdited by Lily ContentoISBN # 9780978280642 $16.95MIC CHECKEdited by David Silverberg ISBN # 9780978280659 $16.95 Evidenceby Samuel AndreyevISBN # 9780981018683 $16.95
Sew Him Upby Beatriz HausnerISBN # 9781926802022 $16.95Psychic Geographies and Other Topicsby Gregory BettsISBN # 9781926802008 $16.95The Sylvia Hotel Poemsby George FetherlingISBN # 9780981018690 $15.95Ten Thousand Miles Between Usby Rocco de GiacomoISBN # 9780981018676 $16.95A River at Nightby Paul ZemokholISBN # 9780981018614 $16.95 This Is How I Love Youby Barbara Landry ISBN # 9780978280697 $15.95 Looking at Renaissance Paintings by Caroline Morgan Di Giovanni ISBN # 9780978280680 $15.95
Harbour View by Binnie BrennanISBN # 9780981018645 $16.95The Extraordinary Event of Pia H.by Nicola VulpeISBN # 9780981018607 $18.95A Pleasant Vertigo by Egidio CoccimiglioISBN # 9780981018652 $14.95Wit in Loveby Sky GilbertISBN # 9780978280666 $16.95 Room Toneby Gale Zoë Garnett ISBN # 9780978280611 $16.95
Shrinking Violetsby Heidi GrecoISBN # 978-1-926802-36-7 $16.95Real Goneby Jim ChristyISBN # 9781926802015 $16.95The Adventures of Micah Mushmelon by Michael WexISBN # 9780978280628 $16.95 A Gardener on the Moonby Carole GiangrandeISBN # 9781926802053 $16.95Good Evening, Central Laundromatby Jason HerouxISBN # 9781926802046 $16.95Of All the Ways To Dieby Brenda NiskalaISBN # 9780981018669 $16.95The Cousin by John CalabroISBN # 9780981018638 $16.95
Rain Dance by Viktor MiticISBN # 978-1-926802-66-4 Hard Cover Art 120 pages $39.95 October 2011 Published by Fourfront Editions, an imprint of Quattro Books Inc.
This series of paintings called Rain Dance are reproductions of the recent raininspired paintings of Viktor Mitic. The sequence is a kind of ‘aleatory art’ inwhich natural rain is the constant painting partner of the artist as he createsmostly non-figurative works using the random effects of natural rain. There areremarkable results when he is working outside with his canvasses on the groundunder the random effects of natural rain and thunderstorms during his paintingprocesses. It is as if several senses are at work in the creation of these paintings.There are startling and beautiful effects from this inspired method of painting.In these canvasses there is a feeling of an almost lunar calm together with amuted immanence of solar violence in the segregated warmer colours in manyof these paintings. This is an intense inner mythic-like world he has constructedthat compliments and includes nature, where even acid rain, like smog sunsets,can add to the effects in the creation of paintings.
Viktor Mitic was born in Belgrade, Serbia. He was classically trained in art schools in Europe and latercompleted a degree in art from the University of Toronto. He has produced a major body of work over thelast twenty years. His controversial works using bullets have garnered much international media attention.Mitic’s work has been reviewed by the BBC, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, Telegraph Journals, andBiggs Museum of Modern Art. He has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions in both privateand public galleries. His notable collectors includes: National Gallery of Grenada, York University Art Gallery,Hon. Stephen Harper, Hon. Jean Chretien, Hon. Bob Rae.
FOURFRONT EDITIONS
Behind the Whip: Dominatrix by Maria Coletsis ISBN 9781926802381 Hard Cover Art Photography $40
BACKLIST
Retina Green by Reinhard FilterISBN # 9781926802114 $16.95Tobacco Wars by Paul Seesequasis ISBN # 9781926802121 $16.95 Gazeby Keith CadieuxISBN # 9781926802107 $16.95The Sea by Amela MarinISBN # 9781926802091 $16.9The Panic Buttonby Koom KankesanISBN # 978-1-926802-30-5 $16.95 Graceby Vanessa SmithISBN # 978-1-926802-26-8 $16.95Break Meby Tom ReynoldsISBN # 978-1-926802-32-9 $16.95
Rough Wildernessby Rosemary AubertISBN # 9781926802411 $16.95Saugeenby Rob RolfeISBN # 9781926802398 $16.95Book of Disordersby Luciano IacobelliISBN # 978-1-926802-28-2 $16.95Strong Breadby Giovanna RiccioISBN # 978-1-926802-34-3 $16.95Interstellarby Allan Briesmaster ISBN # 9780978280604 $16.95hold the note by Domenico CapilongoISBN # 9781926802084 $16.95syrinx and systoleby Matthew RemskiISBN # 9781926802077 $16.95
QUATTRO POETRY
QUATTRO FICTION
The Ballad of Martin B. by Michael MirollaISBN # 978-1-926802-53-4 NOVELLA SERIES 134 pages $16.95 October 2011
The Ballad of Martin B. uses the punk world as a background for itsplot. It follows a young anarchist whose determination to tear downsociety’s complacency is being guided by ghosts of past thinkers. Notonly does the narrative realistically capture the squalor and degeneracyof a very raw underground scene, it also engages the readerintellectually by delving into age-old philosphical issues.
Michael Mirolla’s publications include two novels: Berlin (aBressani Prize winner and finalist for the Indie Book andNational Best Books Awards) and The Facility, which featuresa string of cloned Mussolinis; two short story collections anda poetry collection (Light And Time, Guernica Editions,2010). His short story “A Theory of Discontinuous Existence”was a Journey Prize Anthology selection, while “The Sand Flea”was nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
This book is a Clockwork Orange on anti-depressants. What Anthony Burgessreally wanted to convey but couldn’t quite get down to it because he was afraid of the
raw sexual slashing and clashing.
The Hawk by Rob Rolfe ISBN # 9780978280673 $15.95 My Etruscan Face by Gianna Patriarca ISBN # 9780978280635 $16.95 Garden VarietyEdited by Lily ContentoISBN # 9780978280642 $16.95MIC CHECKEdited by David Silverberg ISBN # 9780978280659 $16.95 Evidenceby Samuel AndreyevISBN # 9780981018683 $16.95
Sew Him Upby Beatriz HausnerISBN # 9781926802022 $16.95Psychic Geographies and Other Topicsby Gregory BettsISBN # 9781926802008 $16.95The Sylvia Hotel Poemsby George FetherlingISBN # 9780981018690 $15.95Ten Thousand Miles Between Usby Rocco de GiacomoISBN # 9780981018676 $16.95A River at Nightby Paul ZemokholISBN # 9780981018614 $16.95 This Is How I Love Youby Barbara Landry ISBN # 9780978280697 $15.95 Looking at Renaissance Paintings by Caroline Morgan Di Giovanni ISBN # 9780978280680 $15.95
Harbour View by Binnie BrennanISBN # 9780981018645 $16.95The Extraordinary Event of Pia H.by Nicola VulpeISBN # 9780981018607 $18.95A Pleasant Vertigo by Egidio CoccimiglioISBN # 9780981018652 $14.95Wit in Loveby Sky GilbertISBN # 9780978280666 $16.95 Room Toneby Gale Zoë Garnett ISBN # 9780978280611 $16.95
Shrinking Violetsby Heidi GrecoISBN # 978-1-926802-36-7 $16.95Real Goneby Jim ChristyISBN # 9781926802015 $16.95The Adventures of Micah Mushmelon by Michael WexISBN # 9780978280628 $16.95 A Gardener on the Moonby Carole GiangrandeISBN # 9781926802053 $16.95Good Evening, Central Laundromatby Jason HerouxISBN # 9781926802046 $16.95Of All the Ways To Dieby Brenda NiskalaISBN # 9780981018669 $16.95The Cousin by John CalabroISBN # 9780981018638 $16.95
Rain Dance by Viktor MiticISBN # 978-1-926802-66-4 Hard Cover Art 120 pages $39.95 October 2011 Published by Fourfront Editions, an imprint of Quattro Books Inc.
This series of paintings called Rain Dance are reproductions of the recent raininspired paintings of Viktor Mitic. The sequence is a kind of ‘aleatory art’ inwhich natural rain is the constant painting partner of the artist as he createsmostly non-figurative works using the random effects of natural rain. There areremarkable results when he is working outside with his canvasses on the groundunder the random effects of natural rain and thunderstorms during his paintingprocesses. It is as if several senses are at work in the creation of these paintings.There are startling and beautiful effects from this inspired method of painting.In these canvasses there is a feeling of an almost lunar calm together with amuted immanence of solar violence in the segregated warmer colours in manyof these paintings. This is an intense inner mythic-like world he has constructedthat compliments and includes nature, where even acid rain, like smog sunsets,can add to the effects in the creation of paintings.
Viktor Mitic was born in Belgrade, Serbia. He was classically trained in art schools in Europe and latercompleted a degree in art from the University of Toronto. He has produced a major body of work over thelast twenty years. His controversial works using bullets have garnered much international media attention.Mitic’s work has been reviewed by the BBC, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, Telegraph Journals, andBiggs Museum of Modern Art. He has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions in both privateand public galleries. His notable collectors includes: National Gallery of Grenada, York University Art Gallery,Hon. Stephen Harper, Hon. Jean Chretien, Hon. Bob Rae.
FOURFRONT EDITIONS
Behind the Whip: Dominatrix by Maria Coletsis ISBN 9781926802381 Hard Cover Art Photography $40
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