Synopses & Reviews
Storm of the i: An Artobiography is best described by New York Times best-selling author Sara Davidson: “This book is a fabulous hybrid, a memoir that's alive with foldouts, paintings, drawings and a surprising lift-up flap.? Beneath the playfulness, however, lies the story of an artist trying to understand her father's lifelong anger towards her. At the pinnacle of her career, an exhibition of her work in Paris, Tina Collen finds herself inexplicably weeping. It takes courage to probe a father's lifelong rejection, but Collen has wonderful tools: her humor, memories and the trail of art she created. “I discovered Collen through her Fleurotica collages. At first glance, I thought I was looking at lush paintings of wildflowers, but on closer examination, I was in the world of the Kama Sutra. Based on the idea that flowers are simply sex organs, Collen created her wildflowers from risqué magazine scraps. She took something forbidden and transformed it into something witty, beautiful and acceptable. In Storm of the i, she takes a heartbreaking story and transforms it into something witty, beautiful—and unforgettable.”
Synopsis
Award-winning memoir of an artist's difficult relationship with her father, overflowing with playfulness, humor and her art—including foldout paintings, cutouts and even a pop-up.
Synopsis
This award-winning memoir of an artist's difficult relationship with her father is filled with playfulness, humor and much of her art. It includes a five-panel foldout of a series of paintings, several cutouts and even a hand that comes out of the pages to give the reader a fortune cookie with a message inside. It is the story, however, that is the engine of the book. Original.