2006, ISBN: 0889842787

Livres de poche, Première édition

[EAN: 9780889842786], Neubuch, [PU: Erin, Ontario, Canada: Porcupine's Quill], THE PORCUPINE'S QUILL, RUDOLF KURZ, CANADIAN ART, DRAWING, SURREALISM, Original printed wraps. 64 pp. Octavo… Plus…

[EAN: 9780889842786], Neubuch, [PU: Erin, Ontario, Canada: Porcupine's Quill], THE PORCUPINE'S QUILL, RUDOLF KURZ, CANADIAN ART, DRAWING, SURREALISM, Original printed wraps. 64 pp. Octavo. The work of two illiterate elephants in the china shop of letters and language, An Illustrated Alphabet for the Illiterate attempts to be no more than what it is -- a bizarre and entertaining little book, fun to look at and fun to read! Rudolf (the artist) studied the letters of the alphabet from the point-of-view of an illiterate, unspoiled child and saw surprising shapes in them. Then Rudolf and his Goth daughter Elizabeth (who had just turned sixteen at the time) each wrote thirteen short vignettes, stories and poems to accompany the twenty-six letters. Their two voices are easy to distinguish: the old voice is silly and nonsensical whereas the teenaged girl sounds brooding, mysterious and melancholy. Encompassing as it does, in twenty-six short epistles, all of the seven capital sins, An Illustrated Alphabet for the Illiterate is encyclopaedic in its reach and catholic in its taste. An exposition of the food chains of various ecosystems is interspersed with a fanciful bestiary of toucans and dragons, faeries and a unicorn and even includes a sympathetic depiction of polycystic ovary syndrome sure to strike a chord with the afflicted. Printed offset by Tim Inkster on the Heidelberg KORD at the printing office of the Porcupine's Quill in the Village of Erin, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. Smyth sewn into 16-page signatures with hand-tipped endleaves front and back., Books<

2006, ISBN: 9780889842786

Softcover, Illustrated edition. 61 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.25 inches., Neubuch, [PU: Porcupines Quill]