Cells of Ourselves

Urquhart, Tony & Gary Michael Dault

ISBN 10: 0889841144 / ISBN 13: 9780889841147

Published by Porcupine's Quill, 1987

About this Item

ABout new but for store stamp to half-title page and inscription to front endpaper; in glossy dust jacket. ; 9.06 X 8.36 X 0.50 inches; 96 pages.

Seller Inventory # 36611

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cells of Ourselves
• Publisher: Porcupine's Quill
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0889841144
• ISBN 13: 9780889841147
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art/Design

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 "