{"product_id":"monograph-by-chris-ware","title":"Monograph by Chris Ware","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eMonograph by Chris Ware\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eChris Ware\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780847860883\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eRizzoli\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2017\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eIllustrated\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e280\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eModerate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eFOREWORD INDIES Book of the Year Awards -- 2017 BRONZE Winner for Art \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNew York Times Best Art Book of 2017 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA flabbergasting experiment in publishing hubris, \u003ci\u003eMonograph\u003c\/i\u003e charts the art and literary world's increasing tolerance for the language of the empathetic doodle directly through the work of one of its most esthetically constipated practitioners. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For thirty years, writer and artist (i.e. cartoonist) Chris Ware (b. 1967) has been testing the patience of readers and fine art fans with his complicated and difficult-to-comprehend picture stories in the pages of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and other charitable periodicals--to say nothing of challenging the walls of the MCA Chicago and the Whitney Museum of American Art with his unevocative delineations and diagrams. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Arranged chronologically with all thoughtful critical and contemporary discussion common to the art book genre jettisoned in favor of Mr. Ware's unchecked anecdotes and unscrupulous personal asides, the author-as-subject has nonetheless tried as clearly and convivially as possible to provide a contrite, companionable guide to an otherwise unnavigable jumble of product spanning his days as a pale magnet for athletic upperclassmen's' ire up to his contemporary life as a stay-at-home dad and agoraphobic graphic novelist. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Shrewdly selected personal photos distract from justifiably little-seen early experiments littered among never-before-seen paintings and sculptures, all padded out with high-quality scans of original artwork publicizing jottings, mistakes, blunders and, especially, Mr. Ware's University juvenilia via which the reader can track a general cultural increase in tolerance for quality's decline since his work first came on \"the scene.\" Expensive, heavy, and fashioned from the finest uncoated paper and soy-based ink, this thigh-crushing book is certain to cut off the circulation of all but the most active of comics boosters. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"There's no writer alive whose work I love more than Chris Ware. The only problem is it takes him ten years to draw these things and then I read them in a day and have to wait another ten years for the next one.\"--Zadie Smith\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Rizzoli","offers":[{"title":"Monograph by Chris Ware | Chris Ware | Hardcover | 9780847860883 | Used: Good | Back Stacks J 1787805","offer_id":67795232489624,"sku":"1787805","price":109.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81D24K7WFtL.jpg?v=1792780416","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/monograph-by-chris-ware","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}