Things That Art
A Graphic Menagerie of Enchanting Curiosity
$96.18
- Hardcover
128 pages
- Release Date
26 September 2019
Summary
Lochlann Jain’s debut non-fiction graphic novel, Things That Art, playfully interrogates the order of things. Toying with the relationship between words and images, Jain’s whimsical compositions may seem straightforward. Upon closer inspection, however, the drawings reveal profound and startling paradoxes at the heart of how we make sense of the world.
Commentaries by architect and theorist Maria McVarish, poet and naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield, musician and English Professor Drew D…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781487570552 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1487570554 |
| Author: | Lochlann Jain |
| Publisher: | University of Toronto Press |
| Imprint: | University of Toronto Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 26 September 2019 |
| Weight: | 480g |
| Series: | EthnoGRAPHIC |
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Critics Review
“I found this book of juxtapositions, puns and wordplay very entertaining and rewarding to read, I also like the fun style of the drawing, which goes well with the serious matter of linguistics and concepts.”
- Sara Boorman (NB Magazine, October 28,2019)“This is a thinking person’s book, or put more precisely, it draws readers into thinking deeply with its deceptively simple illustrations set side by side and up and down in masterfully designed sets… Things That Art stimulates the mind, the senses, the emotions.”
- Alisse Waterston (Anthropology Now)Lochlann Jain
Lochlann Jain is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University and a professor in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London.
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