The elusive moose : an exploration across Canada from excitement to ennui / by Phil Day
- Bib ID:
- 6536976
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Day, Phil, 1973-, author, artist
- Description:
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- [Melbourne] : Mountains Brown Press, 2010
- 1 leaf (concertina folded to 5 unnumbered pages) : illustrations ; 26 x 63 cm (folded to 26 x 13 cm, in folder 27 x 14 cm)
- Notes:
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- Artist's book.
- Cover title.
- Limited edition of 7 copies.
- National Library's SR copy is no. 4/7, signed and dated by the artist.
- An artist's book with handwritten text in pencil, and woodcut illustrations, based on a four day train trip from Vancouver to Toronto, during which the artist hoped to see a moose. Des Cowley writes, "On the surface, the text is whimsical: 'I have never seen a moose. Not even in a zoo. I have seen the head of a stuffed one on a barber's wall.' Spurred on by memories of childhood book Life Before Man, filled with exotic images of prehistoric animals and dinosaurs, Day writes of his mounting excitement at the prospect of seeing a moose. A series of woodcuts depicts scenes that Day sees from his window, or within the train - a bear walking in the woods; a still from Hitchcock's Rear Window that he watches on his computer; his own hand as it draws on a wood block, presumably preparing one of the woodcuts used in book. By journey's end, a sense of boredom and disappointment has set in: '7th May, 2010. It's dark outside. Tomorrow morning I'll be in Toronto. I will have crossed the width of Canada, and haven't seen a moose. I can see my reflection on the surface of the window.'" ("Mountains Brown Press, the recent artist's books of Phil Day," Imprint, volume 48, number 1 (Autumn 2013), page 19).
- Binding:
- Single sheet loosely enclosed in a woodcut illustrated board folder with handset letterpress title. Endpapers monoprinted in silver-white ink on a brown base depicting a skeletal moose.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Mountains Brown Press
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2010
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