Cantitate/Preț
Produs
Total produse
Vezi coșul
Badlands: An Illustrated Tribute de Robert Kroetsch

Badlands: An Illustrated Tribute

Autor Robert Kroetsch Fotograf George Webber
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 ian 2016
Robert Kroetsch's classic novel follows a 1916 paleontological expedition into the Alberta badlands and a daughter's later reckoning with her father's ambitions.

Originally published in 1975, Badlands begins in 1916 when scientist William Dawe leads a fossil expedition into the Alberta badlands, determined to win recognition through the discovery of dinosaur remains. Fifty years later, his daughter Anna returns to the same landscape and confronts both the legacy of the expedition and the assumptions that shaped her father's work and world.

This illustrated edition pairs Kroetsch's comic, layered fiction with black-and-white photography by George Webber. Webber's images extend the novel's sense of place, bringing the stark forms, open spaces and visual strangeness of the badlands into conversation with Kroetsch's exploration of ambition, memory and Western Canadian identity.

The result is both a major work of Canadian literary fiction and a distinctive illustrated portrait of one of Alberta's most recognizable landscapes.

Citește tot Restrânge

Preț: 43620 lei

Puncte Express: 654

Cartea se retipărește


Wish list
Gift list
Am citit!
Adaugă în listă
Doresc să fiu notificat când acest titlu va fi disponibil:
Trimite

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781771600637
ISBN-10: 1771600632
Pagini: 360
Ilustrații: B&W photos throughout
Dimensiuni: 188 x 213 x 33 mm
Greutate: 1.29 kg
Ediția:Illustrated
Editura: Rocky Mountain Books
Colecția Rocky Mountain Books
Locul publicării:United States

Descriere

Originally published in 1975, Badlands has been heralded as a comic triumph for decades. The story starts in 1916, when scientist William Dawe leads a paleontological expedition into the badlands of Alberta, obsessed with achieving world renown by discovering dinosaur fossils. Fifty years later, his daughter, Anna, enters these same badlands. In her visit to the expedition site, she exposes not only the absurdity of her father’s work but also the folly of his male ambition and attitudes.
This new, beautifully packaged edition of Kroetsch’s classic novel is reborn and reimagined for a contemporary audience with stunning and haunting black and white images by master photographer George Webber accentuating the text.

Notă biografică

George Webber is a renowned documentary photographer whose previous books include Prairie Gothic (RMB, 2012), Last Call (RMB, 2010), A World Within: An Intimate Portrait of the Little Bow Hutterite Colony and People of the Blood: A Decade-long Photographic Journey on a Canadian Reserve. He is the recipient of numerous National Magazine Awards (Canada), two Awards of Excellence from the Society for News Design (USA) and the International Documentary Photography Award (Korea). His photographs have been featured in American Photo, Canadian Geographic, Lenswork Quarterly, Photolife, The New York Times and Swerve magazine. In 1999 he was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in recognition of his contributions to the visual arts in Canada. George lives in Calgary, Alberta.

Robert Kroetsch was a teacher, editor and award-winning writer. Born in Heisler, Alberta, in 1927, Kroetsch grew up on his parents’ farm and studied at the University of Alberta and the University of Iowa. He taught at the State University of New York, Binghamton, until the late 1970s and then returned to Canada, where he taught at the University of Calgary and the University of Manitoba from the 1970s through the 1990s. Kroetsch also spent time at the Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts and many writer-in-residencies, where he powerfully influenced recent writing on the Canadian prairies and elsewhere. His generosity of spirit and openness to the new showed many authors new ways to pursue their own kinds of writing. In honour of both his writing and his contributions to Canadian culture in general, Kroetsch was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2004. In 2011 he received the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Distinguished Artist Award. Robert Kroetsch died in a car accident outside of Edmonton, Alberta, in 2011.