Rear Window / Vinduet mot bakgården (dark green)
An illustrated anthology observing life in the converted old Arsenal Stadium, during London lockdown. A series of illustrated short stories by Cecilie Maurud Barstad. 160 colourful pages with drawings, poetic texts, essay and interview. This is the DARK GREEN COVER, featuring the illustration THE YOGA MAN.
An illustrated anthology observing life in the converted old Arsenal Stadium, during London lockdown. A series of illustrated short stories by Cecilie Maurud Barstad. 160 colourful pages with drawings, poetic texts, essay and interview. This is the DARK GREEN COVER, featuring the illustration THE YOGA MAN.
An illustrated anthology observing life in the converted old Arsenal Stadium, during London lockdown. A series of illustrated short stories by Cecilie Maurud Barstad. 160 colourful pages with drawings, poetic texts, essay and interview. This is the DARK GREEN COVER, featuring the illustration THE YOGA MAN.
160 COLOURFUL PAGES
The book ‘Rear Window’ has developed from the drawings made by Cecilie Maurud Barstad at the beginning of the corona crisis. Her extraordinary illustrations are accompanied by short, pithy narratives. From the balcony of her flat, in the converted old Arsenal Stadium in London, she has spent weeks and months observing, studying, and drawing her neighbours in lockdown. In her colourful images and poetic texts the reader enters her back courtyard in Highbury with all its smells, conversations, noise and silence, sunshine and rain.
Foreword by Lene Renneflott, leader of Grafill. Author Benedicte Meyer Kroneberg has composed an essay, and Maurud Barstad is interviewed by arts writer Sondre Sommerfelt. Introduction by Cecilie Maurud Barstad and afterword by editor and designer Nina Ansten. The book is bilingual in English/Norwegian. English translations by Andrew J. Boyle.
The book is designed in Oslo by Ansten Studio. Printed and bound in Skien by ETN Grafisk and Bokbinderiet Johnsen.
The book is hardback, bound with a cloth-covered spine. The title is embossed on the cover. A tactile, high quality uncoated paper is used throughout the book. / 160 pages / 176 x 246 mm / Edition of 700 copies distributed on four different covers.
ISBN: 978-82-692291-0-3
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It is impossible not to be intrigued by this neighbourhood! –Lene Renneflott
