Look look! Chook! Chook! Tuk-tuk! (Gorakhpur) / Phil Day
- Bib ID:
- 6537334
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Day, Phil, 1973-, author, artist
- Description:
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- [Melbourne] : Mountains Brown Press, 2010
- 1 folded leaf (concertina folded into 4 unnumbered leaves) : colour illustrations ; 20 x 38 cm (folded to 20 x 10 cm, in folder 20 x 11 cm)
- Summary:
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An artist's book consisting of one sheet folded into four leaves with text handwritten in pencil and handcoloured woodcut illustrations, loosely enclosed in a folder. On his website, the artist sets the scene, "Srim & I were invited to a wedding in Gorakhpur in India. The wedding ceremony went for about a week. I got to see a lot of animals." Des Cowley writes that the book "recounts Day's brief conversation about cows with a tuk tuk driver in India, as their vehicle raced through the streets of Gorakhpur" ("Mountains Brown Press, the recent artist's books of Phil Day," Imprint, volume 48, number 1 (Autumn 2013), page 19). The illustration is captioned "Me driving Srim around Gorakhpur in a tuk-tuk (I never drove a tuk-tuk in India)."
- Notes:
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- Caption title.
- Limited edition of 7 copies.
- National Library's SR copy is no. 5/7, signed and dated by the artist.
- Binding:
- Board folder with hand-coloured woodcut illustration.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Mountains Brown Press
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary, dramatic or musical work
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2010
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