Description: A new edition of the artist's bold reinterpretation of a century-old book
Brief description: Leanne Shapton is an author, artist, illustrator and publisher based in New York City. She is currently the art editor at The New York Review of Books. She is the co-founder, with photographer Jason Fulford, of J&L Books. Shapton is a fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. She grew up in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Shapton is the author of nine books: Toronto; Was She Pretty?; Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry; Native Trees of Canada; Sunday Night Movies; Swimming Studies; Guest Book: Ghost Stories; In Cars and Toys Talking, a children's book. Swimming Studies won the 2012 National Book Critic's Circle Award for autobiography, and was long listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2012.
Review Quotes:
"Leanne Shapton has distinguished herself as a writer (she's also an artist) with an inspiring disdain for genre." --The Globe and Mail
"[Shapton] is as at home with pictures as she is text, requiring her audience to master a skill she calls "visual reading"." --The Guardian