The Native Trees of Canada
$39.62
- Paperback
104 pages
- Release Date
10 September 2024
Summary
A new edition of the artist’s bold reinterpretation of a century-old book
With a foreword by Sheila Heti, Leanne Shapton’s cult art book inspired by a government textbook is back in print with a gorgeous new cover.
While shopping in the used-book store the Monkey’s Paw in Toronto, Leanne Shapton happened upon a 1956 edition of the stalwart reference book The Native Trees of Canada, originally published in 1917 by the Canadian Department of Northern Affairs and National Resourc…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781770467446 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1770467440 |
| Author: | Leanne Shapton |
| Publisher: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Imprint: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 104 |
| Release Date: | 10 September 2024 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 160mm x 241mm |
| Series: | Series Test |
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Critics Review
Leanne Shapton has distinguished herself as a writer (she s also an artist) with an inspiring disdain for genre.’ - The Globe and Mail. ‘[Shapton] is as at home with pictures as she is text, requiring her audience to master a skill she calls ‘visual reading’.’ - The Guardian
Leanne Shapton
Leanne Shapton is an author, artist, illustrator, and publisher based in New York City. She is currently the art editor at The New York Review of Books. She is the co-founder, with photographer Jason Fulford, of J&L Books. Shapton is a fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. She grew up in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
Shapton is the author of nine books:
- Toronto
- Was She Pretty?
- Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry
- Native Trees of Canada
- Sunday Night Movies
- Swimming Studies
- Guest Book: Ghost Stories
- In Cars
- Toys Talking (a children’s book)
Swimming Studies won the 2012 National Book Critic’s Circle Award for autobiography and was longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2012.
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