Lifeworld E-Publishing has created E-Publications to showcase the art in the documentary series A Second Look and will make these available for a modest fee to those prefer the traditional coffee table version of fine art books. Complementing the documentaries themselves, there are four titles available to date. Two other books, Down the Organization by M. V. Ouellet and Sign-Language, poetry by Pierre Ouellet are also available at this time.
In 2019-20, the company will also e-publish a series of essays and a second collection of poetry by Pierre Ouellet as well as the work of other authors associated with Project Lifeworld
PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL TEXTS HAVE BEEN ABRIDGED FOR THE PURPOSE OF DISPLAY AND REPRESENT A SAMPLED LOOK AT THE ARTISTS’ WORK. A FULL VERSION OF EACH E=TEXT IS AVAILABLE THROUGH THE USUAL ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS.
Not for Sale – Project Lifeworld presents a retrospective look at the art of British-Canadian artist Selwyn Owen. For over four decades, beginning in the early 1970s, Selwyn Owen has been engaged in a relentless exploration of the possibilities of abstract expressionism, developing over his lifetime both a compelling visual code and a deeply personal calligraphy.
The Grain in the Light is a revealing look at the art of Toronto-born drawing master Paul Young whose work has not only inspired several generations of students and colleagues at OCAD, Three Schools and elsewhere but redefined, on its own terms, the practice of charcoal drawing and fine art calligraphy as worthy of the same interest and consideration as other better-known forms of Canadian visual expression.
When a City Dreams... In her work, Anne-Laure balances an intuitive vision with a more rigorous structured approach to produce works that are at once strangely foreign and hauntingly familiar. Much has been said about the influence of environment – the urban landscape in particular – on the early moments of her project. What will come of these intuitions over time remains not only to be seen – but felt in the deep mnemonic manner that the work itself seems to demand of its viewers.
About Face – John Reeves has lived and documented, in his own words, “the cultural beat” of the country, photographing musicians, artists and writers towards whom he has always felt a deep affinity and a passionate interest. Acting almost as if they were the visual memory of his generation, Mr. Reeves’ collections of images of musicians, artists and authors have found their way in book format as well as gallery exhibits which are now the staple of many Canadian institutions, including the National Archives of Canada, the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Art Centre at the University of Toronto.
Down the Organization is a humorous and insightful look at the ways that organizations and corporate leaders understand the world and their place in it, told, as the cover suggests, from the employees/minion point of view. Written in the 1970s, before Power Point became the required medium of corporate messaging, Down the Organization used organizational flowcharts to convey all manner of attitudes and ideas comment corporate culture, many of which have only become more exaggerated and dysfunctional of there years since the book was first published. This new editions contains many illustration that were originally left out by the original publisher primarily because of budget limitations.
Sign – Language is a collection of the early poems of Pierre Ouellet, written in the seventies in Toronto, while Pierre was a student at OCA. They are the true beginning of what became a lifelong pursuit of the signifying nexus of image thought and language.
