Editor(s): Meeka Walsh

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Border Crossings commissioned twenty-six enchanting works from some of Winnipeg’s most accomplished artists to create a collection celebrating the magazine’s 25th anniversary. The creatures featured in the alphabestiary collection demonstrate a range of honesty and imagination in their rendering. They include Andrew Valko’s Lecherous Leopard, Janet Werner’s painfully lovely Goat Girl, who also graces the cover, Kim Ouellette’s superbly stitched Fruit Flies, Simon Hughes’ elegant Ice Swan and Eleanor Bond’s devoted Pet, among a myriad of others.

Along with the twenty-six artworks, the book includes a foreword by William Wegman, no stranger to the animal kind, whose written words are as charming as his own drawings.

Border Crossings’ Editor Meeka Walsh, has contributed an introduction, The Many and the Marvellous; an essay, On Being and Becoming: The Animal, The Artist and the Art, and composed a series of animal notes accompanying each of the twenty-six images.

The book also includes extensive biographical notes on all the artists who participated in this celebratory project, drafted by contributor Robert Enright.

From Wanda Koop’s A for Ape to Shaun Morin’s Z for Zebra, the animals that dwell in the pages of the alphabestiary challenge, conjure and inspire. Weinvite you to explore The Winnipeg Alphabestiary where, to quote Meeka Walsh, “the real and the imaged cohabit”.

The Winnipeg Alphabestiary
Editor(s): Meeka Walsh
$34.95
         

 
DETAILS:
NEW ARRIVAL
hardcover, 104 pages
colour illustrations
10 1/4 x 8"
Border Crossings
2008
ISBN-13: 9780981028606