Perfect Red
by Jane Lind
ISBN 9781897151440 | 6" x 9" | Hardcover | $37
Categories:Non-Fiction - Biography/Memoirs
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Synopsis
Artist. Activist. Canadian. There is only one Paraskeva Clark. The daughter of Russian peasants, Paraskeva Plistik was born in St. Petersburg in 1898 and was educated in art during the Russian Revolutions. She took this creative sense, steeped in social awareness, with her when she married Canadian accountant Phillip Clark and accompanied him back to Toronto. It was not long before Paraskeva attracted attention from the Toronto art community. But it was during the 1930s that Clark came into her own. Inspired by war, she reflected the turmoil around her on canvas, culminating in Petroushka, a work based on a 1937 incident that left five Chicago strikers dead at the hands of police. Yet for all her commitment to the world at large, Clark’s is a classic immigrant story, of someone who had to adjust to unfamiliar customs and rules.Accompanied by colour plates of art both iconic and rarely-seen, Perfect Red is the story of Paraskeva Clark's indelible mark on Canadian art and society.
