One Year In America - Softcover

Belliveau, Elisabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1894994876 ISBN 13: 9781894994873

Publisher: Conundrum Press, 2014

Synopsis

Belliveau’s story begins with a loss of innocence over ice skater Katarina Witt’s fall from grace by posing in Playboy. It is told through both drawings and email text between friends. The story jumps between Canada and the United States and travels abroad navigating life after art school, marriage and divorce. It is a year in a life, but one that is pregnant with memory, meaning and desire. It is a post-modern coming of age story which quite literally crosses boundaries.

About this title

About the Author:

Elisabeth Belliveau is an interdisciplinary artist originally from Nova Scotia. Her work has been screened and exhibited internationally. She completed a BFA at Alberta College of Art and Design and an MFA at Concordia University in Montréal where she currently teaches. Her early zines were collected into her first book, Something to Pet the Cat About which sold out and was rereleased as the great hopeful someday to great acclaim.

Review:

"The impression is of an artist's diary, nearly unexpurgated. There's something appealing about the immediacy and honesty of these pages. The drawings are evocative and charming, and an occasional self-consciousness in her writing is mitigated by self-satire.... Elisabeth Belliveau's drawings gently capture people in odd moments, unsuspecting. Her perspective is detached, cautious, and spare, seeking out meaning in the mundane. Her moments of lyrical clarity are lovely." -- Montreal Review of Books

About this edition

• Publisher: Conundrum Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1894994876
• ISBN 13: 9781894994873
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112