Picnic on the Print

By BARBARA JOHNSON CHASE

From the Paris-gilded imagination of artist-poet Barbara Johnson Chase comes this bon vivant collector's frisson: Picnic on the Print. In amuse-bouche analogous to J. R. R. Tolkien's self-illustrated rendering of The Hobbit, each double-page tableaux elicits a double take; each double entendre flambé a second thought. From à la carte delicacies like Vine Dweller's "see her swinging gently on a hammock full of peas" (à la Beatrix Potter's art-and-verse) to word-grilled Compliment's "chic-to-cheek" scarf (à la Lewis Carroll's interplays), between the obvious and the understated. A palette of optical word plays for frontal cortexes pining for the piquant. Chef-d'oeuvre for eyes; plat du jour for brain cells.  

 

Spec Details:

126 pages   

42 full-coor original artworks by the author

42 original poems by the author

• Language: English
• Publisher: BARBARA JOHNSON CHASE
• Release date: Jun 13, 2021
• ISBN: 9781734322118

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