The Makers of The Lines of the Poet
ROSENGARTEN, the artist, was born in Montreal in 1933. He received his formal training under Anthony Caro, Eduardo Paollozzi and Elizabeth Frink at the St. Martin's School of Art in London. He lives much of his time quietly in the country in the Eastern Townships where, as a reviewer of one of his recent shows noted in Vie des Arts, he practises his art'avec vigueur et Constance ... loin des milieux officials.' Known as a sculptor as well as an artist of the brush and pen, Rosengarten is primarily concerned with the human face and form. He has held one-man exhibitions of his work at the Egan Gallery in New York; at Le Centre culturel, Universit@ de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec; and the MarlboroughGodard Gallery, Montreal.
D.G. JONES, the editor, is a poet and critic who teaches comparative Canadian and Quebec poetry at the Universit6 de Sherbrooke. He is the author of an important study of Canadian literature entitled Butterfly on Rock and of several volumes of poetry. His latest book, Under the Thunder the Flowers Light up the Earth, won both the A.J. M. Smith Prize, presented by Michigan State University, and the Governor-General's Award for Poetry. He is a founding editor of Ellipse and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
P I E R R E G U I L L A U M E, the printer, was born in Louhans, France, in 1932. He received the Diploma of the School of Graphic Arts at Dijon in 1951. He emigrated to Canada in 1956 where he shortly acquired his own printing atelier. He is one of the few printers in Canada who, in his words, work'... dans la plus pure tradition ... composition des textes A la main et impression sur presses A bras'; as he says, he entered 'dans l'imprimerie A 15 ans et il n'en est jamais sorti'. He has produced numerous dditions d'art for Quebec artists and writers, some under the imprint of his Editions Sagitta. He is married to the artist and engraver Janine Leroux.
DAVID CARRUTHERS, the papermake; comes from a paper making family. He founded the Papeterie St. Armand in Montreal in 1978 to produce high quality art papers by hand. His mill uses only cotton and flax fibres, refind and blended carefully to meet the various requirements of watercolourists, printmakers and letterpress printers. The papermakers at St. Armand can produce several hundred sheets of entirely hand made large format paper each working day, 'employing traditional methods with a dash of modern technology.'
MARC ST. PIERRE, the lithographer, was born in Cochrane, Ontario, in 1952. He holds the degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts from Laval University and Master of Fine Arts (with emphasis in frintmaking) from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. He studied his craft at the atelier of S. W Hayter in Paris and at the Centre Genevois de Gravure Contemporain in Geneva. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions and has worked as a professional printer in the United States and Canada. He is Printmaking Instructor at the Swain School of Design, New Bedford, Massachusetts.
P I E R R E 0 U VRA R D, the boxmaker, is a noted fine binder, one of a very small number of craftsmen who ply this trade in Canada. He is the principal maker of the folding boxes usually required for livres d'artistes but is perhaps better known as a @inder specializing in unique and elaborate bindings for individual copies of prized books. He binds the copies of their books presented each year to the recipients of the Governor-General's Awards for Literature.
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