What It Is
 | By Lynda Barry Drawn and Quarterly, 2008, Hardcover Customer Rating: 14 reviews Recommend |
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“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.”
Title: What It Is
Sales Rank: 1518 in Books
Author: Lynda Barry
Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly, 1 edition, 2008-05-13, Hardcover, 209 pages, ISBN: 1897299354
Package Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.6 x 0.9 inches, 2.05 pounds
- Eureka!
- "What It Is" is one of the most surprisingly encouraging and inspiring books I've come across. Good job, LyndaB! More reviews
- My New Fave Book
- I love this book and have already bought 3 more as gifts. I'm pretty sure that if I just walk around with this book or sit looking at it in coffeshops, bars and car repair waiting rooms, cool things are going to happen to me, mysterious images, strangers, forgotten childhood toys and monsters will come to visit. How can one book be so practical… More reviews
- Way exceeded my expectations! The coolest book I own!
- I ordered this after reading about it on Kelly Kilmer's blog, where she highly praised this repeatedly and made me think that I was missing out on something wonderful if I didn't buy it.
So I bought it, and what I found out is that I had been missing out on something wonderful!!
I couldn't be more happy that I bought this book!… More reviews
- Amazing Book
- I am an artist-teacher, and I wish someone had presented this information to me sooner.
The book has a front section that is sort of an artistic, stream of consciousness, diaristic account of Lynda Barry's own creative life. Followed by a workbook, which I didn't have any specific expectations about, but I was sitting there following the steps, and it was pretty amazing how effective the… More reviews
- what it is
- I recommend this to anyone who loves Linda Barry. This book is supposedto be a condensed version of her wrtining workshop. Mostly, it is L. B. collages and drawings. It explores many of the issues that arise during the creative process. … More reviews
