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is? / Luke Ramsey.

Ramsey, Luke, 1979- (artist.).

Summary:

Intelligent Sentient? feels like an artifact from another time--a lost feature in OMNI magazine or the album booklet for a late-1970s Hawkwind record or perhaps a print version of Koyaanisqatsi. Beautiful, detailed filigreed drawings fold in on themselves and blossom out at the reader as time speeds up and contracts. A loose story is told that involves a society of giant people, strange art, and inexplicable scientific experiments utilizing nonexistent technology. Factories and tree houses teem with life, and the city nestles up against a landscape filled with dinosaurs, apes, and dragonflies living peacefully side by side. Intelligent Sentient? is a series of images that are tied together not in narrative but in a progressing theme, the takeaway being that everything is connected. The drawings contain the fine detail of a watchmaker and the visual scope of a social reform muralist. This book is meant to be read forward and backward and returned to and treated like a mystical text. Publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781770461772 (hbk.)
  • ISBN: 1770461779 (hbk.)
  • Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : all color illustrations ; 20 x 29 cm.
  • Publisher: [Montr©Øeal] : Drawn & Quarterly, [2015]
Subject: Imaginary places > Comic books, strips, etc.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Sage Library System.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Status Due Date Courses
Hood River County Library GRAPHIC FIC RAMSEY (Text) 33892100264879 Adult Graphic Novels & Comics Available -

Summary: Intelligent Sentient? feels like an artifact from another time--a lost feature in OMNI magazine or the album booklet for a late-1970s Hawkwind record or perhaps a print version of Koyaanisqatsi. Beautiful, detailed filigreed drawings fold in on themselves and blossom out at the reader as time speeds up and contracts. A loose story is told that involves a society of giant people, strange art, and inexplicable scientific experiments utilizing nonexistent technology. Factories and tree houses teem with life, and the city nestles up against a landscape filled with dinosaurs, apes, and dragonflies living peacefully side by side. Intelligent Sentient? is a series of images that are tied together not in narrative but in a progressing theme, the takeaway being that everything is connected. The drawings contain the fine detail of a watchmaker and the visual scope of a social reform muralist. This book is meant to be read forward and backward and returned to and treated like a mystical text.

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