Vivisectionary : a convocation of biological art / Kate Lacour.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, 2019Edition: First Fantagraphics Books editionDescription: 1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 17 x 25 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 1683962125
- 9781683962120
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | Graphic Novel | Lacour, Kate | Available | 33111009696176 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
What if lactating snakes gestated inside foetuses? What if factory-farmed pigs were bred as giant, insentient cubes? What if the human spine generated methamphetamine capsules? A collection of single page sequential images illustrate these, and many other, marvellous, hideous, enigmatic physiological mysteries. Each comics sequence is stitched together (pun intended) by a narrative thread that forms a strange and mesmerising voyage through the body.
Title from cover.
"Part comic art, part textbook, Vivisectionary is a delightfully grotesque mix of the mundane and the macabre. From 'vivisection,' the act of dissecting living specimens, and 'bestiary,' a compendium of real and mythical creatures. A series of visual sequential experiments in the physiological, the pathological, and the occult. A bizarre and mesmerizing investigation through the marvels of biology and myth to uncover the extraordinary in the ordinary, the magic in science, the sublime in the grotesque"-- Publisher's website.