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Fran Bull: Choose Your Own Title

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Fran Bull: Choose Your Own Title is a vibrant collaboration between poet and visual artist Fran Bull and acclaimed designer Yolanda Cuomo. This visually stunning volume melds poetry and art, exploring the diverse emotions and spectacles of human life through a dynamic interplay of words and images. Each page offers a unique experience where Bull's drawings and paintings merge with her poetic text, inviting readers into an immersive artistic journey.

Adding an innovative twist, the book encourages readers to select their own title from seventeen creative options, fostering a playful and engaging interaction with the work.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in contemporary poetry, visual arts, and experimental book design. It appeals to those who appreciate creative collaboration and interactive art experiences.

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Paintings, drawing, s and poetry by Vermont- and Barcelona-based American artist Bull are collected in this volume designed by award-winning American designer Yolanda Cuomo. Each page features Bull's vibrantly colored and abstract figural works punctuated by lines from her poems.

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In a joyful collaboration, poet and visual artist Fran Bull, along with award-winning designer Yolanda Cuomo, have created an exuberant, visually stunning book of poetry and art. This is a volume in which the outrageous, tender, humorous, often heartbreaking spectacle of human life on planet Earth is invoked in a dynamic juxtaposition of word and image.

On each page, the artist's drawings and paintings interact explosively or gently with the written word. Moreover, the reader is brazenly invited to choose his or her own title for the book from among seventeen suggestionsβ€”a gesture designed to inspire discernment and creativity in a spirit of play.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9788862086516

Publisher: Damiani

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 19 September 2019

Country: Italy

Imprint: Damiani

Illustration: 53 Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 195.0mm

Height: 279.0mm

Weight: 700g

Pages: 104

About the Author

Fran Bull is an American artist and poet who makes her art in Vermont and Barcelona. Her work has been exhibited in the United States and abroad, most recently and the 2017 Venice Biennale and a current solo exhibition of etching in Capellades, Spain. Her work is represented in numerous museums, private and corporate collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Brooklyn Museum and The Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.

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