Building Stories

Chris Ware - FIRST EDITION LARGE FORMAT BOXED & SEALED

ISBN 10: 0224078127 / ISBN 13: 9780224078122

Verlag: Jonathan Cape, 2012

Beschreibung

A stunning huge and heavy publication that's difficult to classify. Essentially this is a 'concept art' project. 14 distinctively discrete books, booklets, magazines, newspapers and pamphlets. Hard to describe but simple to appreciate! This is a high quality assembly inside a large box. It is still sealed, so all the examples photographed are on the outside of the box. It may require extra postage depending on the destination. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1539107725932

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Building Stories

Verlag: Jonathan Cape

Erscheinungsdatum: 2012

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: New

Auflage: 1st Edition.

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Inhaltsangabe:

In Chris Ware's own words, 'Building Stories follows the inhabitants of a three-flat Chicago apartment house: a thirty-year-old woman who has yet to find someone with whom to spend the rest of her life; a couple who wonder if they can bear each other's company for another minute; and finally an elderly woman who never married and is the building's landlady...'The scope, the ambition, the artistry and emotional heft of this project are beyond anything even Chris Ware has achieved before.

Críticas:

"There's nobody else doing anything in this medium that remotely approaches Ware for originality, plangency, complexity and exactitude. Astonishment is an entirely appropriate response." (Sam Leith Guardian)

"A major moment in British cultural history." (Christopher Frayling Radio 4)

"Breathtaking... Staggeringly good." (Shortlist)

"Just occasionally, a writer or artist – or both in one – emerges who is so astoundingly original that everything else suddenly seems like a facsimile of what has come before. Chris Ware, the 45-year-old American comics artist, is one of these. Widely hailed as one of the foremost practitioners working in the medium today, his new book, if one can call it that without being reductionist, is a work of such startling genius that it is difficult to know where to begin." (Jake Wallis Simons Daily Telegraph)

"This is the first book which I have finished and immediately started again, wanting to experience each of the stories with full knowledge of what happens in the rest... The number of narrative techniques Ware uses in the novel is giddying... Building Stories is a stunning piece of work, proving yet again why Ware is so frequently included in lists of the greatest living cartoonists." (Alex Hern New Statesman)