Denis Castellas


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Rapports Judiciaires de Québec


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Contains decisions of the various courts of Quebec and includes a few cases of earlier date.




Djamel Tatah


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French Algerian painter Djamel Tatah (born 1959) creates minimalist portraits of human figures against monochromatic backgrounds. This book illustrates how Tatah's works relate to both modernist and classical traditions through comparisons to works by artists such as Ryman and LeWitt, as well as Cimabue and Giotto.







Lower Canada Reports


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Beckett's Thing


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Beckett was deeply engaged with the visual arts and individual painters, including Jack B. Yeats, Bram van Velde, and Avigdor Arikha. In this monograph, David Lloyd explores what Beckett saw in their paintings. He explains what visual resources Beckett found in these particular painters rather than in the surrealism of Masson or the abstraction of Kandinsky or Mondrian. The analysis of Beckett's visual imagination is based on his criticism and on close analysis of the paintings he viewed. Lloyd shows how Beckett's fascination with these painters illuminates the 'painterly' qualities of his theatre and the philosophical, political and aesthetic implications of Beckett's highly visual dramatic work.







African Agrarian Systems


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Originally published in 1963 this volume surveys various aspects of the complex relations between rights in land, social organization and economic interests in tropical Africa. The papers - in English and French but with summaries in the other language - analyse case studies illustrating the various basic factors and problems connected with land in Tropical Africa. Indigenous systems of tenure and their adaptation to commercial agriculture, the balance between rights and obligations of groups and individuals, and the authority and duties of chiefs and headmen are discussed in detail for many different areas. Against this background important contributions are made towards the better understanding of problems raised by economic and political development, population increase, migration and scarcity of land.