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Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay
Ben Katchor
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Description for Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay
Hardback. In Katchor's signature pen and ink wash style, Cheap Novelties is a portrait of what we have lost to gentrification, globalization, and the malling of America that is as moving today as it was twenty-five years ago Num Pages: 112 pages, Black and white illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: FX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 281 x 18. Weight in Grams: 820.
Cheap Novelties is an early testament to Ben Katchor's extraordinary prescience as both a gifted cartoonist and an astute urban chronicler. Rumpled, middle-aged Julius Knipl photographs a vanishing city-an urban landscape of low-rent apartment buildings, obsolete industries, monuments to forgotten people and events, and countless sources of inexpensive food. In Katchor's signature pen and ink wash style, Cheap Novelties is a portrait of what we have lost to gentrification, globalization, and the malling of America that is as moving today as it was twenty-five years ago. In 1991, the original Cheap ... Read more
Cheap Novelties is an early testament to Ben Katchor's extraordinary prescience as both a gifted cartoonist and an astute urban chronicler. Rumpled, middle-aged Julius Knipl photographs a vanishing city-an urban landscape of low-rent apartment buildings, obsolete industries, monuments to forgotten people and events, and countless sources of inexpensive food. In Katchor's signature pen and ink wash style, Cheap Novelties is a portrait of what we have lost to gentrification, globalization, and the malling of America that is as moving today as it was twenty-five years ago. In 1991, the original Cheap ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Drawn and Quarterly
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9781770462632
SKU
V9781770462632
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Ref
99-19
About Ben Katchor
Ben Katchor is the cartoonist of Hand-drying in America, The Jew of New York, The Beauty Supply District, and The Card- board Valise. He has received a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and was a fellow at The American Academy in Berlin and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. ... Read more
Reviews for Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay
Ben Katchor's sublime collectionchronicles the wanderings of Julius Knipl, a rumpled photographer-for-hire taking pictures of buildings in a gently surreal streetscape that vaguely resembles Manhattan's financial district of old. Knipl laments a fading world of dairy cafeterias, tchotchke salesmen and trophy manufacturers. -Wall Street Journal