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This large-format chapbook includes 13 full-colour reproductions of Holownia’s photographs, accompanied by 13 poems by Nova Scotia naturalist and poet Harry Thurston. A stunning integration of image, text, and typography, the book is typeset in Walbaum and printed offset on HannoArt paper.

of a feather is the third book in a trilogy that includes Ova Aves and Icarus, Falling of Birds. Conceived as a tribute to the teacher, naturalist, and ornithologist Gay Hansen — Holownia’s late partner and Thurston’s long-time friend, the collection combines Thaddeus Holownia’s photography of bird feathers with the poetry of Harry Thurston.

Taken individually, the photographs and poems are magnificent in their detail and poise, but together they show how both poetry and science can illuminate the natural world, drawing on the ideas of the likes of Rachel Carson and E.O. Wilson. The result is a wonderful tribute to Hansen and an enduring record of beauty in the natural world.

Leaders in the Field: The History and Legacy of Art at Mount Allison showcases the vitality and significant contributions of Mount Allison University’s Fine Arts department to Canadian visual art and culture. Founded in the mid-19th century, it was the first fine arts department in Canada and has been home for many of Canada’s most important artists, either as students or faculty members. The legacy has been remarkable.

The extensive list of artists includes such luminaries as Herménégilde Chiasson, Alex Colville, Michael de Adder, Evergon, Tom Forrestall, Lawren P. Harris, Susan Low-Beer, Danica Lundy, Christopher Pratt, Mary Pratt, and Janice Wright Cheney, among many others.

This handsome volume includes essays by curators and art historians Ray Cronin, Mireille Eagan, and Jane Tisdale on the history of Fine and Applied Arts at Mount Allison. Also included are over 350 reproductions of work by a broad sweep of artists who studied or taught in Mount A’s Fine Arts Department over its 170-year history.

Un appel artistique : le rayonnement des beaux-arts à Mount Allison célèbre la vitalité du département des beauxarts de la Mount Allison University et sa contribution remarquable à l’art visuel et à la culture, au Canada. Premier du genre au pays à sa fondation, au milieu du XIXe siècle, le département a accueilli et accueille encore, comme étudiants et professeurs, un nombre impressionnant de figures de proue du monde canadien de l’art, et parmi eux, beaucoup de précurseurs tels Herménégilde Chiasson, Alex Colville, Michael de Adder, Evergon, Tom Forrestall, Lawren P. Harris, Susan Low-Beer, Danica Lundy, Christopher Pratt, Mary Pratt et Janice Wright-Cheney.

Cet ouvrage, d’une grande élégance, propose des essais de Ray Cronin, Mireille Eagan et Jane Tisdale, conservateurs et historiens de l’art, sur l’histoire des beaux-arts et des arts appliqués à Mount Allison. Il réunit aussi 350 reproductions d’oeuvres d’une grande diversité d’artistes qui ont étudié ou enseigné à « Mount A » depuis la création du département des beaux-arts, voici plus de 170 ans.