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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 40 page full-colour illustrations. Saddle-stitched catalogue of an exhibition from 27 August to 9 September, 2001. Text in English and Icelandic. Dust jacket has 1/8? tear at each spine end. Several tiny, pale stains on front cover. "Louise has indicated that she was initially connecting with islands in general, not Iceland in particular when creating the works that make up Island Souvenir. Louise has never been to Iceland, and has made the statement that one should never underestimate the influence of book culture. Yet there is more at work here than book culture alone. Island Souvenir fits perfectly inside the Dr. Paul H. T. Thorlakson Gallery [where the works were originally exhibited], and not just physically, but visually and spiritually. So well does Iceland Souvenir fit into this small piece of Iceland in Manitoba that it is almost as if the works were created specifically for the exhibition space. I believe that Louise Jonasson, true to the words of Stephen G. Stephansson's poem, carries features of an ancestral homeland in her mind and heart." - Sigrid Johnson. …