Cells of Ourselves

Dault, Gary Michael

ISBN 10: 0889841144 / ISBN 13: 9780889841147

Published by Porcupine's Quill, Erin, Ontario, 1989

About this Item

Includes fifty drawings (ten reprouduced in full colour) organized allusively around the idea of a cage, presented alongside a prose commentary on the images.

Seller Inventory # 14539

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cells of Ourselves
• Publisher: Porcupine's Quill, Erin, Ontario
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0889841144
• ISBN 13: 9780889841147
• Binding: Hard Cover in Dust Jacket
• Illustrator: Tony Urquhart
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine Plus
• Seller catalogs:
  • Canadian Literature

About this title

Synopsis

Includes fifty drawings (ten reproduced in full colour) organized around the idea of a cage, presented alongside a prose commentary on the images.

Review

It is very often a delight to catch a glimpse of what's inside a sculptor's notebook, since it is there, perhaps always, that the genesis of the creative work in three dimensions takes place. The array here of tiny notebook pages by Tony Urquhart (a sculptor of boxes, fantastic cupboards and such) is an intriguing anthology of just such glimpses.

Through Urquhart's eyes, recorded by cat-scratch ink lines and warmed by quiet watercolour and ink washes in France, Britain and America, we are given views of a tomb in a wrought-iron enclosure, curiosity-cabinets of things picked up on nature walks, railings and fences, a bear cage in the Paris zoo, a grated door in a French lane. These are not atmospheric or gentle drawings: they bite hard on the page, and carry a quick psychological grasp of what they portray, which is almost always a limit or confinement.'--John Bentley Mays "Globe & Mail "