by Julie Doucet
$39.95
144 pages
ISBN-10: 1584232463
ISBN-13: 9781584232469
Publisher: Gingko Press
Renowned comic artist Julie Doucet has created a unique artist's book. Printed on a half dozen different papers in eight colors, this amalgamation of drawing, collage, painting, and narrative is a visionary meditation on love and its discontents. Using cut-out, collaged letters and phrases to compose her oblique, poetic text, Doucet's words are as graphically enticing as her images. The book moves from pointed collages made from 1960s Quebecois magazines, to abstract, psychedelic drawings, to a moving catalog of her lover's possessions -- a diversity tied together by Doucet's funny, frank sensibility. Widely regarded as the finest female cartoonist of the 20th century, Doucet has never published a book like this: a pure, non-comics distillation of her artistic sensibility, which will appeal both to her graphic novel fans and to art aficionados who will be bowled over by her skills and her unforgettable images. Hardcover.
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