by un roman écrit et illustré par Rémy Simard (1993)
Roberval Kid et son ami Dolbeau partent à la recherche de la petite Alma disparue dans le trou de la "bécosse". Le gouffre débouche dans la mine du vieux Jed où ils découvrent Alma et Picasso. L'aventure commence, une amusante parodie de western.
[texte de] Antonio Tello
"Durant la Renaissance, philosophes et poètes, architectes et peintres, rois et papes ..., nous étions tous persuadés que nous pouvions changer le monde. Et moi, en tant qu'enfant de cette merveilleuse époque, je n'ai pas échappé à cette tendance. C'est ainsi que je me suis mis à la peinture et à la sculpture, que j'ai dessiné des forteresses et des machines de guerre, puis j'ai construit des machines volantes". [4e de couv.]
de Myriam De Repentigny
Parce qu'il porte un drôle de prénom, Zèbre est la risée de la bande du gros Daniel. Pour se venger, l'enfant moqué aussi narrateur dessine les caricatures de ses intimidateurs et les affiche sur les casiers de l'école. Ceci lui vaut d'être envoyé chez le directeur qui, après l'avoir semoncé, l'invite à participer à un concours d'oeuvres d'art, ce qui lui fera rencontrer la jolie Gazelle et Zachary avec qui il fondera la bande des Z. [SDM]. Un roman réaliste facile à lire, ponctué de quelques amusantes vignettes en noir et blanc et touchant au thème sensible de l'intimidation. [SDM].
Johan A. Lindquist
Since the late 1960s the Indonesian island of Batam has been transformed from a sleepy fishing village to a booming frontier town, where foreign investment, mostly from neighboring Singapore, converges with inexpensive land and labor. Export processing zones such as Batam are both celebrated and vilified in contemporary debates on economic globalization. The Anxieties of Mobility moves beyond these dichotomies to explore the experiences of migrants and tourists who pass through Batam. Johan Lindquist's extensive fieldwork allows him to portray globalization in terms of relationships that bind individuals together over long distances rather than as a series of impersonal economic transactions. He offers a unique ethnographic perspective, drawing together the worlds of factory workers and prostitutes, migrants and tourists, and creating a compelling account of everyday life in a borderland characterized by dramatic capitalist expansion. The book uses three Indonesian concepts (merantau, malu, liar) to shed light on the mobility of migrants and tourists on Batam. The first refers to a person's relationship with home while in the process of migration. The second signifies the shame or embarrassment felt when one is between accepted roles and emotional states. The third, liar, literally means "wild" and is used to identify those who are out of place, notably squatters, couples in premarital cohabitation, and prostitutes without pimps. These sometimes overlapping concepts allow the book to move across geographical and metaphorical boundaries and between various economies. The Anxieties of Mobility is an ideal text for courses dealing with gender, globalization, and anthropology.
A.D. Trendall
"The red figure vases produced by the Greek colonists in South Italy and Sicily in the later fifth and the fourth centuries BC were at first closely modeled on Athenian prototypes. But they quickly evolved, exhibiting the highly individual styles and characteristics that are explored in this fascinating study. The red figure vases of the period are not only immensely pleasing as works of art, but of great interest and importance for the light they shed on mythology and drama, local customs and the relations between the Greek settlers and the native inhabitants. Some of the latter, especially in Apulia, seem to have acquired considerable wealth and wer able to indulge their taste for very large vases, elaborately decorated with exuberant floral pattern-work and multi-figured compositions. Close to 600 illustrations reproduce a wide selection of the more significant vases, and demonstrate not only their considerable artistry, but also the endless fascination of their subject matter."--Publisher description.