Sydney Hermant

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Sydney Hermant: Aunt Maud's Scrap Book Edited by Christoph Keller, Kathy Slade. Aunt Maud is a tertiary character in Vladimir Nabokov's 1962 novel Pale Fire, described as a mediocre painter and scrapbook artist. Sydney Hermant, a young Vancouver-based artist, writer, and curator whose
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JRP|RINGIER/VANCOUVER SPECIAL SERIES
ISBN: 9783905770032
$29.00 | In stock

Sydney Hermant

Sydney Hermant: Aunt Maud's Scrap Book

Edited by Christoph Keller, Kathy Slade.
Published by JRP|Ringier/Vancouver Special Series

Aunt Maud is a tertiary character in Vladimir Nabokov's 1962 novel Pale Fire, described as a mediocre painter and scrapbook artist. Sydney Hermant, a young Vancouver-based artist, writer, and curator whose work has been included in exhibitions across Canada and in Tokyo, brings Maud new life by materializing her scrapbook in the form of a cutting-edge artist's book. The contents of its pages are guided by the novel's narrative, by historical events that occurred during its writing, and by concurrent ones from Nabokov's own biography--its fractured reimagining of Maud's life winds through the Luddite rebellion, oil crises in the Middle East and a full-on merman formal ball.