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Plagues & pencils : a year of pandemic sketches
- Title
- Plagues & pencils : a year of pandemic sketches / Edward Carey ; foreword by Max Porter.
- Author
- Carey, Edward, 1970-
- Publication
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2022.
- ©2022
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | NC242.C38 A4 2022 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Porter, Max
- Description
- xiv, 220 pages : illustrations; 19 cm
- Summary
- "In March 2020, as lockdowns were imposed around the world, author and illustrator Edward Carey raced home to Austin, Texas. The next day, he published on social media a sketch of "A Very Determined Young Man." The day after, he posted another drawing. One year and one hundred and fifty Tombow B pencil stubs later, he was still drawing. Carey's pencil fills the page with the marvelous and intriguing, picturing people, characters, animals, monsters, and his favorite bird to draw, the grackle. He reaches into history and fiction to escape grim reality through flights of vivid imagination--until events demand the drawings "look straight on." Breonna Taylor, the Brontë sisters, John Lewis, King Lear, and even the portraits that mark the progress of the year for the Very Determined Young Man combine into a remarkable document of the pandemic and its politics. For Carey, though, trapped inside a home he loves, these portraits are something more, a way to chart time, an artist's way of creating connection in isolation. With an introduction by Max Porter, this exceptional collection from the acclaimed author of Little marks a year of a man trapped with his pencil, determined to find solace amid uncertainty."--
- Uniform Title
- B
- Alternative Title
- B
- Plagues and pencils
- Subject
- Carey, Edward, 1970-
- 2000-2099
- Drawing > 21st century
- Drawing, English
- Portrait drawing, English
- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- > Pictorial works
- Two thousand twenty, A.D. > Pictorial works
- Two thousand twenty-one, A.D. > Pictorial works
- Dessin > 21e siècle
- Pandémie de COVID-19, 2020- > Ouvrages illustrés
- Deux mille vingt > Ouvrages illustrés
- Drawing
- Two thousand twenty, A.D
- Genre/Form
- illustrated books.
- Illustrated works.
- Pictorial works.
- Portraits.
- Ouvrages illustrés.
- Note
- First published in the UK by Gallic Books in 2021 under the title "B : a year in plagues and pencils."
- Call Number
- NC242.C38
- ISBN
- 1477325867
- 9781477325865
- LCCN
- 40031477619
- OCLC
- on1275427284
- 1275427284
- SCSB-14472448
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries