It Is Right to Draw Their Fur: Animal Renderings by Dave Eggers
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,History & Criticism
It Is Right to Draw Their Fur: Animal Renderings by Dave Eggers Details
Amazon.com Review Product Description In time to coincide with a gallery show in San Francisco, this is Dave Eggers's first collection of drawings. Most of these works are of unusual mammals, most often accompanied by slogans with ancient, heroic, or just plain odd overtones. This full-color package will be a combination of 26 large-sized prints and an accompanying booklet. This book echoes questions posed by Eggers in McSweeney's Issue 27: What is the line between a doodle, a cartoon, a gag, and a work of fine art? Does it seem, sometimes, that the artist is defacing his or her own work by adding text? Is loose draftsmanship appealing, in that it’s intimate and disarming? Is absurdity more appealing when it comes across as humble? A Look Inside It Is Right to Draw Their Fur (Click on Images to Enlarge) Read more About the Author For most of his youth, author/editor Dave Eggers was an aspiring painter. After college, he was a cartoonist and illustrator for dozens of magazines and newspapers. In 2008, he curated a show for apexart (a nonprofit art gallery in New York) featuring the works of René Magritte, Francisco Goya, Andy Warhol, David Shrigley, Kurt Vonnegut, Shel Silverstein, Raymond Pettibon, and many others. Read more
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This is a solid purchase for anyone who likes art, Dave Eggers, and animals, and fortunately I like all three! It's a large-scale portfolio of about 30 prints with quippy sayings and hand drawn animal pictures suitable for framing & display. What's really cool is there are like 5 different sized, from small to large, and a few different styles, so you can display several prints at once and then rotate them as desired. The portfolio the prints come in is cool- it feels like real art and fancy- so I display that as well. This would make a great gift, is essential to own, and is a solid buy for anyone into cool art. I've never seen anything like this, so it's definitely interesting and unique!
