| | | | A Stick of Green CandyStories by Jane Bowles and Denton Welch. Illustrated by Colter Jacobsen.
For this fifth volume in the Four Corners Familiars series, in which artists respond to literary classics, the young San Francisco artist Colter Jacobsen (born 1975) has chosen four absolute masterpieces of short fiction: Jane Bowles' “A Stick of Green Candy” and “Camp Cataract,” and Denton Welch's “The Trout Stream” and “Narcissus Bay.” Bowles (1917–1973) and Welch (1915–1948) share a perceptiveness and surgical lucidity for moods and surfaces that William Burroughs, a fan of both authors, remarked upon: “both writers are masters of the unforgettable phrase that no one else could have written… each has a very special way of seeing things.” Jacobsen, who has previously collaborated with the writers Bill Berkson and Kevin Killian, and whose paired drawings—one drawn from life, the other from memory—demonstrate a flair and desire for response and collaboration, adds to these stories his marginalia, chapter headings and paired drawings, making of the whole an enticing mesh of sympathies.
|
|  | STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely. | |
| | FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG THOMAS EVANS | DATE 3/4/2010For this fifth volume in the Four Corners Familiars series, in which artists respond to contemporary writings and literary classics, the young San Francisco artist Colter Jacobsen has chosen four real masterpieces of short fiction: the American writer Jane Bowles' “A Stick of Green Candy” and “Camp Cataract,” and the British writer Denton Welch's “The Trout Stream” and “Narcissus Bay.”
Bowles (1917–1973) and Welch (1915–1948) share a perceptiveness and surgical lucidity for moods and surfaces that William Burroughs, a fan of both authors, remarked upon: “both writers are masters of the unforgettable phrase that no one else could have written… each has a very special way of seeing things.”
Welch's ability to recreate the world's textures in equivalent language effects is exemplified in this magical description of a trout stream, from the eponymous story included here: "I now caught a glimpse of a dark shape fanning the water with its silky tail. It held its position under the far bank; then darted away in a flash, leaving me to search for others. I thought of their bodies, soft as moleskin and with a sort of filmy shimmer over them, perhaps a little like the bloom on untouched plums." continue to blog | |  | FOUR CORNERS BOOKSISBN: 9781909829053
USD $35.00 | CAN $47.5Pub Date: 3/22/2016
Active | Out of stock
|
|  | FOUR CORNERS BOOKSISBN: 9781909829046
USD $35.00 | CAN $47.5Pub Date: 9/29/2015
Active | Out of stock
|
|  | FOUR CORNERS BOOKSISBN: 9781909829039
USD $40.00 | CAN $54Pub Date: 9/29/2015
Active | In stock
|
|  | FOUR CORNERS BOOKSISBN: 9781909829008
USD $30.00 | CAN $35Pub Date: 7/31/2014
Out of print | Not available
|
|  | FOUR CORNERS BOOKSISBN: 9780956192899
USD $40.00 | CAN $54Pub Date: 9/30/2013
Active | In stock
|
|  | FOUR CORNERS BOOKSISBN: 9780956192851
USD $20.00 | CAN $27.95Pub Date: 9/30/2013
Active | In stock
|
|  | FOUR CORNERS BOOKSISBN: 9780956192844
USD $40.00 | CAN $54Pub Date: 6/30/2011
Out of stock indefinitely | Not available
|
|  | FOUR CORNERS BOOKSISBN: 9780956192806
USD $22.00 | CAN $30.5Pub Date: 3/31/2010
Out of stock indefinitely | Not available
|
|  | FOUR CORNERS BOOKSISBN: 9780954502591
USD $22.00 | CAN $30.5Pub Date: 2/28/2010
Out of stock indefinitely | Not available
|
|  | FOUR CORNERS BOOKSISBN: 9780954502577
USD $27.00 | CAN $37Pub Date: 2/1/2009
Out of stock indefinitely | Not available
|
|  | FOUR CORNERS BOOKSISBN: 9780954502560
USD $19.00 | CAN $26.5Pub Date: 2/1/2009
Out of stock indefinitely | Not available
|
|
| OF RELATED INTEREST |  FOUR CORNERS BOOKSISBN: 9780954502577
USD $27.00 | CAN $37Pub Date: 2/1/2009
Out of stock indefinitely | Not available
|
| FORTHCOMING AND NEW: ART |  | PRIMARY INFORMATIONISBN: 9781737797975
USD $20.00 | CAN $28Pub Date: 5/2/2023
Forthcoming
|
|  | LARS MüLLER PUBLISHERSISBN: 9783037786574
USD $30.00 | CAN $42Pub Date: 9/29/2020
Active | Out of stock
|
|  | KERBERISBN: 9783735607010
USD $45.00 | CAN $63Pub Date: 4/13/2021
Active | In stock
|
|  | STEIDLISBN: 9783958298675
USD $40.00 | CAN $56Pub Date: 11/3/2020
Active | In stock
|
|  | KERBERISBN: 9783735607294
USD $49.95 | CAN $69.95Pub Date: 4/13/2021
Active | In stock
|
|  | MOUSSE PUBLISHINGISBN: 9788867494170
USD $25.00 | CAN $34.5Pub Date: 4/20/2021
Active | In stock
|
|  | STEIDLISBN: 9783958298682
USD $40.00 | CAN $56Pub Date: 6/1/2021
Active | In stock
|
|  | STEIDLISBN: 9783958298866
USD $25.00 | CAN $34.5Pub Date: 2/9/2021
Active | In stock
|
|  | DABAISBN: 9781734681703
USD $24.00 | CAN $34 UK £ 20Pub Date: 2/23/2021
Active | In stock
|
|  | EDITION PATRICK FREYISBN: 9783906803807
USD $40.00 | CAN $56Pub Date: 5/11/2021
Active | In stock
|
|  | MOUSSE PUBLISHINGISBN: 9788867494248
USD $25.00 | CAN $34.5Pub Date: 3/9/2021
Active | In stock
|
|  | MOUSSE PUBLISHINGISBN: 9788867494293
USD $25.00 | CAN $34.5Pub Date: 3/30/2021
Active | In stock
|
|
|
| |
