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Weaving Modernist Art

The Life and Work of Mariette Rousseau-Vernette

Anne Newlands

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With Weaving Modernist Art: The Life and Work of Mariette Rousseau-Vermette, author Anne Newlands returns one of Canada's most accomplished and respected visual artists to the public eye.

Born into a large French-Canadian family in 1926, Mariette Rousseau embraced her passion for creative expression through wool and weaving at an early age. By the early 1960s, she had forged collaborations with fellow artists, designers and architects with like ideas about public art. Over the next 40 years, she scaled the heights of her profession, weaving hundreds of radiant large-scale tapestries that complemented the cool interiors of modern architecture.

Through access to this artist-weaver's archive, wide-ranging research and interviews with family, colleagues and friends, the author has created a vivid introduction to a remarkable, innovative artist who paved the way for the generation of Canadian textile artists that followed.