{"id":3872,"date":"2015-06-21T01:33:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T05:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=3872"},"modified":"2017-06-14T12:55:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T16:55:54","slug":"book-review-by-the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/articles\/book-review-by-the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: By the Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kingston, Ontario-based collage artist and author Diane Schoemperlen published By the Book: Stories and Pictures<\/em> in 2014. This colourful, 224-page book features 73 of Schoemperlen’s hand-cut-and-pasted collages, made with images from the public domain, that illustrate seven stories, which pull from old texts such as The Cyclopedia of Classified Dates With An Exhaustive Index<\/em> (1900) or The Commonly Occurring Wild Plants of Canada<\/em> (1897).<\/p>\n

Christopher Byrne reviewed By the Book<\/em> in Issue 12 of Kolaj Magazine<\/em>. He wrote:<\/p>\n

The collages, although made recently, stylistically, textually, and playfully reflect the eras of the publications. This is especially the case in “By the Book Or: Alessandro In The New World”, Schomperlen uses found photobooth portraits to illustrate “Vocabulario: Man, his age and relationship”. Elsewhere in the story, she playfully uses a vintage image of women in men’s evening wear to illustrate “Vocabulario: Apparels for both sexes”. For “Proposal of Marriage”, she creates a tableau of a man at the top of the page swooning and clutching his forehead, while below two reflecting collages show a man with his head in his hands while a woman attempts to comfort him, while behind them is a coloured drawing of a woman in a wedding dress.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This review appeared in Issue Twelve<\/a> of Kolaj Magazine<\/em>. To read the entire review, PURCHASE ISSUE TWELVE<\/a> or SUBSCRIBE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By the Book: Stories and Pictures<\/em>
\nby Diane Schoemperlen
\n8″x6″, 224 pages, including 73 colour illustrations, $28.95 CAD (eBook $21.95 CAD)
\nISBN: 978-1-927428-81-8
\nBiblioasis<\/a>, Windsor, Ontario
\n2014
\nAvailable online from Biblioasis’ website: HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kingston, Ontario-based collage artist and author Diane Schoemperlen published By the Book: Stories and Pictures in 2014. This colourful, 224-page book features 73 of Schoemperlen’s hand-cut-and-pasted collages, made with images from the public domain, that illustrate seven stories, which pull…<\/p>\n

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