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ALL NEW DRAWINGS FROM A NOTED ILLUSTRATORJulie Morstad has long excelled at illustration, often working in tandem with children's writers, but in The Wayside, the storytelling potential of her fantastical pictures is fully realized. Within these pages Morstad's worlds unite, maintaining their ethereal, almost fairy-tale beauty and yet also offering a loose overarching synthesis through thematic and visual commonalities.The work found herein combines the delicate line of Edward Gorey with the color palette of Marcel Dzama, and emerges as something utterly unique, a combination of the two with the spirit of Virginia Woolf. Dramatic, poetic, heavy with symbolism, Morstad's drawings speak for themselves, exploring femininity, identity, and personal mythologies that interested her in her first Drawn & Quarterly book, Milk Teeth.
Hardcover: 120 pages
Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly (October 30, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1770460896
ISBN-13: 978-1770460898
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 0.6 x 10.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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Vancouver-based artist Julie Morstad celebrates the moving power of the black-and-white picture in The Wayside, a wordless collection of striking images and ideas. Fantasy mixes with straightforward storytelling in a way that creates suspense and elicits emotion. There's a sense of danger and the otherwordly in what Morstad depicts; there's also humor and oddity. In all, they combine to create symbolism and sometimes even poetry.-- John Hogan
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