Things That Art
A Graphic Menagerie of Enchanting Curiosity
by Lochlann Jain
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Pub Date Sep 17 2019 | Archive Date Oct 02 2019
University of Toronto Press | Ethnographic
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Description
Lochlann Jain’s debut non-fiction graphic novel, Things That Art, playfully interrogates the order of things. Toying with the relationship between words and images, Jain’s whimsical compositions may seem straightforward. Upon closer inspection, however, the drawings reveal profound and startling paradoxes at the heart of how we make sense of the world.
Commentaries by architect and theorist Maria McVarish, poet and naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield, musician and English Professor Drew Daniel, plus the author offer further insight into the drawings in this collection. A captivating look at the fundamental absurdities of everyday communication, Things That Art jolts us toward new forms of collation and collaboration.
LOCHLANN JAIN is the author of Injury and Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us, which won multiple prizes in anthropology and medical journalism. Jain is a Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University as well as a Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London.
Advance Praise
“Lochlann Jain's drawings are playful, wry, charming, and strangely, even a little profound.”
- Barry Blitt, Cartoonist, Illustrator, Frequent Cover Artist for The New Yorker
“Jain, with clever wit, has done the nearly impossible—taken apart the very category of classification. In this masterwork of graphic philosophy, metaphor elides with the literal as the basis of sorting and sense-making. With deft economy of means, Jain manages to take a topic that has puzzled many great minds and make its conundrums and complexities amusing for us all.” - Johanna Drucker, Artist, Designer and Professor at University of California, Los Angeles
“I have clearly been listing all the wrong things. Groceries? To dos? Worthless. Lochlann Jain elevates the list format into no less than a cabinet of curiosities with juxtapositions that amuse, disgust, inform, and break your heart, maybe all at the same time. You will never look at a hippo or a pair of lips in quite the same way again.”
- Lisa Brown, Illustrator, Writer, and Cartoonist.
“This witty yet sober game Jain plays between word and picture reveals a unique glimpse into the nature of thinking itself, illuminated further by the thoughtful and thoroughly enjoyable accompanying essays – which in turn, invite revisiting the drawings to see anew. Things that Art ultimately offers something even more: an essential reminder of our creative potential and a rich prompt for the reader to grab a pen and take off on expansive excursions of their own.”
- Nick Sousanis, Author of Unflattening, an Eisner-winning graphic novel.
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781487570552 |
| PRICE | CA$29.95 (CAD) |
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