2008 Contemporary and Modern Art Books
Discover the best contemporary and modern art books of 2008, featuring Lynda Barry's acclaimed graphic novel *What It Is*. Explore curated picks on comics, creativity, and visual culture in this essential art book list.
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James Drake (M. Georgia Hegarty Dunkerley Contemporary Art Series)
by Drake, James
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What It Is
by Lynda Barry
"Deliciously drawn (with fragments of collage worked into each page), insightful and bubbling with delight in the process of artistic creation. A+" --Salon How do objects summon memories? What do real images feel like? For decades, these types of questions have permeated the pages of Lynda Barry's compositions, with words attracting pictures and conjuring places through a pen that first and foremost keeps on moving. What It Is demonstrates a tried-and-true creative method that is playful, powerful, and accessible to anyone with an inquisitive wish to write or to remember. Composed of completely new material, each page of Barry's first Drawn & Quarterly book is a full-color collage that is not only a gentle guide to this process but an invigorating example of exactly what it is: "The ordinary is extraordinary."
