Blazing Figures: A Life of Robert Markle by J.A. Wainwright rare books her romantic life relentlessly plagued

her romantic life relentlessly plagued by abandonment and tragedy

and a happy tale about a hardy fig tree

close friend and confidante

scraping and burnishing images

American chic

Blazing Figures: A Life of Robert Markle by J.A. Wainwright rare books her romantic life relentlessly plagued8vo. pp. xii, 298. colour & b w illustrations. bibliography. index. cloth. dw. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, [2010]. New. ISBN: 9781554581825 Robert Markle (19361990) was an infamous figure on the Canadian cultural scene for almost three decades. His paintings and drawings celebrating the female nude were deemed obscene by Ontario courts in 1965, and Markle defended them on national television, emphasizing what he considered a crucial