Overview
An inspired collection of intriguing paintings by Kristy Deetz, accompanied by charming and satirical stories by Edward S. Louis. Join the shape-shifting Rabbit, along with his best friend and astute sidekick Kitty Boy (both close friends of The Artist) as they venture into a land of visual and linguistic imagination. Enthusiastically posing as art critics, they good-humoredly deconstruct imagery from pop, outsider, and high culture as they discuss the meaning and purpose of the paintings. Clever conversations between the two characters spark interpretation of the images, connecting with ideas from art history and theory, along with subtly dark humor - and plenty of puns!
Full Product Details
Author: Kristy Deetz ,
Edward S Louis
Publisher: ELM Grove Publishing
Imprint: ELM Grove Publishing
Dimensions:
Width: 21.60cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.467kg
ISBN: 9781943492657
ISBN 10: 1943492654
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 10 December 2019
Audience:
General/trade
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
Kristy Deetz and Edward S. Louis's collection of illustrated short stories is a Wonderland of sheer delight. The knowing and witty references to culture, art, and art criticism make the banter of Rabbit and Kitty Boy the stuff of a Tim Burton fantasy. A must-read and see for those in the know. -- Richard H. Axsom, PhD, Senior Curator Emeritus, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art ...a joyful journey with the fantastic, gentle adventures of Rabbit and Kitty Boy... accompanied by a range of beautiful images. -- Don. J. Pollack, Adjunct Associate Professor Visual Communications Design School of the Art Institute of Chicago ...a joyful journey with the fantastic, gentle adventures of Rabbit and Kitty Boy... accompanied by a range of beautiful images. -- Don. J. Pollack, Adjunct Associate Professor Visual Communications Design School of the Art Institute of Chicago Kristy Deetz creates a world as it could be... as it should be, perhaps.... certainly as it exists within her vivid imagination. Her Rabbit and Kitty Boy, like Godot's Vladimir and Estragon, find themselves comically confronting life's questions and realizing that there are no good answers, only more questions. A deceptive sweetness permeates her paintings, but a certain darkness around the edges of the narrative just won't leave the stories at peace. She depicts a place where myth, legend, art history and dreams come to play together, and it is a delight. -- Fred Stonehouse, Professor, Department of Art-University of Wisconsin/Madison
Author Information
KRISTY DEETZ is a Professor in the Art Discipline at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Her extensive exhibition record includes national and international venues and her paintings have been featured in a number of textbooks and magazines. She frequently gives workshops and serves as a visiting artist at venues including Haystack, Oxbow, Penland, and Arrowmont. UWGB awarded her the 2011 Founders Award for Excellence in Scholarship and she received SECAC's 2016 Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2018, she served as Erasmus Visiting Lecturer at the University of Kassel, Germany, and as artist-in-residence at The Burren College of Art in Ireland. EDWARD S. LOUIS (pen name for E. L. Risden, Professor of English, St. Norbert College) lives, teaches and writes in Wisconsin. His hobbies include daily practice of tai chi chuan and Mediterranean cooking. Previous books include ""The Monster Specialist"" (2014), ""Odysseus on the Rhine"" (2005), ""White Shoes"" (2017), ""The Streets of Harmon Falls"" (2016). Louis has recently completed a new novel, ""Between Such Distant Shores"", and a collection of short stories, ""A Brief History of Friendship"".
