{"product_id":"painting-timebooks","title":"Painting Time","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn Maylis de Kerangal's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePainting Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, we are introduced to the burgeoning young artist Paula Karst, who is enrolled at the famous Institut de Peinture in Brussels. Unlike the friends she makes at school, Paula strives to understand the specifics of what she's painting--replicating a wood's essence or a marble's wear requires method, technique, and talent, she finds, but also something else: craftsmanship. She resolutely chooses the painstaking demands of craft over the abstraction of high art.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith the attention of a documentary filmmaker, de Kerangal follows Paula's apprenticeship, punctuated by brushstrokes, hard work, sleepless nights, sore muscles, and long, festive evenings. After completing her studies at the Institute, Paula continues to practice her art in Paris, in Moscow, then in Italy on the sets of great films, all as if rehearsing for a grand finale: at a job working on Lascaux IV, a facsimile reproduction of the world's most famous paleolithic cave art and the apotheosis of human cultural expression.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn enchanted, atmospheric, and highly aesthetic coming-of-age novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePainting Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an intimate and unsparing exploration of craft, inspiration, and the contours of the contemporary art world. As she did in her acclaimed novels \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Heart\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cook\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Maylis de Kerangal unravels a tightly wound professional world to reveal the beauty within.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"de Kerangal, Maylis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Adult Fiction A-F)","offer_id":45721194758368,"sku":"","price":10.2,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/53317478.jpg?v=1717343804","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/painting-timebooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}