This book is an intriguing flip on the traditional novel. It boils the idea of a novel to its essence - the relationship between two people - but rather than narrating it, allows the reader to view a failed relationship after looking through the physical detritus left after the relationship ends....
I am sucker for the detritus of relationships genre and this is sample of that genre at its most visual. I think I was particularly primed to appreciate this work because last weekend I saw Annie Liebowitz's show Pilgrimage, which similarly tries to show the soul of an individual through the obje...
This book is such a unique and imaginative format. It documents the entire relationship of the fictional Lenore and Harold from their first meeting through to their breakup. The whole story is told as an auction catalog of all the possessions related to their love story. There are photographs and...
A fairly ordinary relationship arc, elevated to interest purely through unique presentation, its mapping entirely onto things: collections, gifts, ephemera. Through an auction catalogue of discarded possessions -- items and desciptions -- we see the entire development of the mutual life of two pe...
Beware, this book is not for swimmers only. Leanne Shapton is a graphic novelist, artist, designer of the op page of the NYT, the author of a brilliant book I fell in love with years ago, "Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including...