209 research outputs found
Focus Down East commentary written by Normand Laberge, owner of Tidewalker Ass
No full textFocus Down East commentary written by Normand Laberge, owner of Tidewalker Associates in Trescott. Laberge outlines several advantages associated with investment in tidal power. He also discusses his company\u27s plans to construct a dam in Half Moon Cove near Eastport that would benefit from the area\u27s nearly 18 foot difference between high and low tides
La chasse au chevreuil chez les frères Normand dans les Cantons de l’Est
No full textCe texte a été produit dans le cadre d’un séminaire de maîtrise en sociologie à la fin des années 1970. À la suite d’enquêtes orales auprès de ses quatre frères, l’auteure s’est d’abord attardée à étudier cette chasse, à en décrire sa structure, son organisation et son déroulement. Par la suite, cette chasse a été analysée sous les angles de la fête, de la cérémonie et du jeu. Cette recherche lui a permis de préciser son projet de mémoire de maîtrise et de circonscrire son nouveau terrain de prédilection : la nouvelle vie sur les terres acquises et cultivées par les cinq familles immigrées de Charlevoix à la fin des années 1910 sous l’impulsion de son père François, organisateur de cette migration dans les Cantons de l’Est.This text was produced in the course of a Masters seminar in sociology at the end of the 1970s. Having carried out oral interviews with her four brothers, the author set out to study deer hunting practises, describing the structure, the organization and the process followed during the hunt. In the project’s second phase, deer hunting was analyzed as a type of ceremony accompanied by gaming rituals and celebrations. Thanks to this research project, the author was able to choose her Masters dissertation topic, and to define a new area of research : the lives of five families of migrants from the Charlevoix region who settled on farmlands obtained with help from the author’s father, François, in the Eastern Townships at the end of the 1910s
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No full textJean-Pierre APRIL, Collège de Victoriaville Jean-Pierre AUGUSTIN, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux-III Roger BOILEAU, Université Laval Aurélien BOIVIN, Université Laval Normand BOURGEOIS, Université Laval Jean CRETE, Université Laval Simon GENEST, Université Laval Donald GUAY, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières Jean HARVEY, Université d'Ottawa François HEBERT, Université de Montréal Gilles JANSON, Université du Québec à Montréal Suzanne LABERGE, Université de Montréal Alan METCALFE,..
The soft-focus lens and Anglo-American pictorialism
No full textElectronic version excludes illustrations for which permission has not been granted by the rights holderThe history, practice and aesthetic of the soft focus lens in photography is elucidated and developed from its earliest statements of need to the current time with a particular emphasis on its role in the development of the Pictorialist movement. Using William Crawford's concept of photographic 'syntax', the use of the soft focus lens is explored as an example of how technology shapes style.
A detailed study of the soft focus lenses from the earliest forms to the present is presented, enumerating the core properties of pinhole, early experimental and commercial soft focus lenses. This was researched via published texts in period journals, advertising, private correspondence, interviews, and the lenses themselves. The author conducted a wide range of in-studio experiments with both period and contemporary soft focus lenses to evaluate their character and distinct features, as well as to validate source material.
Nodal points of this history and development are explored in the critical debate between the diffuse and sharp photographic image, beginning with the competition between the calotype and daguerreotype. The role of George Davison's The Old Farmstead is presented as well as the invention of the first modern soft focus lens, the Dallmeyer-Bergheim, and its function in the development of the popular Pictorialist lens, the Pinkham & Smith Semi-Achromatic. The trajectory of the soft focus lens is plotted against the Pictorialist movement, noting the correlation betwixt them, and the modern renaissance of soft focus lenses and the diffuse aesthetic.
This thesis presents a unique history of photography modeled around the determining character of technology and the interdependency of syntax, style and art
News & Issues piece on a recent action by the U.S. Office of Special Counsel,
No full textNews & Issues piece on a recent action by the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, a watchdog agency in Washington, which has dismissed a whistleblower\u27s complaint that he was punished for criticizing the U.S. Navy\u27s cleanup of peeling paint from a huge antenna farm in Cutler. Navy environmental compliance officer Normand Laberge had complained that his position was subordinated after he made persistent complaints about the diligence of efforts to contain lead and PCBs from the project. Maine\u27s Department of Environmental Protection has required the Navy to monitor contamination in the air at nine locations around the site, including a local elementary school
Le passage de l’eucharistie au rituel anthropophage dans Le Petit Köchel de Normand Chaurette
No full textLe Petit Köchel (2000) de l’auteur québécois Normand Chaurette (1954 – 2022) est un texte de théâtre où le fils cannibale de quatre mélomanes – deux soeurs musiciennes et deux soeurs musicologues qui ont consacré leur vie à Mozart – condamne ses mères à répéter éternellement l’heure précédant son suicide, et ce, longtemps après leur mort, en instaurant un rituel anthropophage. Dans cet article il s’agira d’envisager cette pièce en réfléchissant à la perversion des codes de l’Eucharistie chrétienne dans le macabre rituel qui en organise la fable, faisant de la figure du fils la manifestation ambivalente d’un C(h)ronos dévorant et dévoré dont le pouvoir se répercute à l’infini.Le Petit Köchel (2000), by Quebecois author Normand Chaurette (1954 – 2022), is a play where the cannibal son of four music lovers – two musician sisters and two musicologists who all dedicated their life to Mozart – condemns his mothers to an infinite repetition of the hour preceding his suicide, in the form of a ritual where they have to eat his remains… This article will analyze this ritual as a perversion of the Christian Eucharist, the “Holy Communion”, where the son seems to wear the mask of C(h)ronus, here both devourer and devoured, whose power can be felt through the ages
Political trajectories in the painting of P. Wyndham Lewis
No full textThis thesis presents an analysis of the political dimension to the paintings of Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957).Through an exegesis of the discreet and latent "voices" in Lewis's paintings the ideological parameters of his thought world are disclosed. These imperatives are examined for their display of political predispositions, for values and attitudes, which reveal a loading towards specific socio-cultural standards. In so far as these standards can be identified with historically relevant political programmes they become manifestos for political actions. Or, at the very least, they can be seen to exist as critical and prescriptive social insights. Importantly, the focus of this examination and interpretation remains the visual image and its related texts. A key aspect of both the methodology and argument within this thesis, insists that the visual image is the bearer of meaning in both its subject matter and technique. Values are communicated not only in reference to the thing displayed, but, in the manner of the display. Hence, an analysis of the intellectual and formal strategies employed by Lewis in his painting becomes a central concern of the thesis. Finally, the thesis rounds on the actual nature of Lewis's politics as revealed in his approach to art. While it is accepted that the mediation from the political to the painted throws up many and substantial barriers, the thesis insists that a political reading of Lewis's creative work is not only appropriate but necessary. In offering just such a reading the author hopes to transcend the boundaries between the disciplines of Art History and Sociology
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