{"title":"Books by Leanne Shapton","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781770467446","title":"The Native Trees of Canada","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new edition of the artist’s bold reinterpretation of a century-old book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a foreword by Sheila Heti, Leanne Shapton’s cult art book inspired by a government textbook is back in print with a gorgeous new cover.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile shopping in the used-book store the Monkey's Paw in Toronto, Leanne Shapton happened upon a 1956 edition of the stalwart reference book \u003ci\u003eThe Native Trees of Canada\u003c\/i\u003e, originally published in 1917 by the Canadian Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources. Most people might simply view the book as a dry cataloging of a banal subject; Shapton, however, saw beauty in the technical details and was inspired to create her own interpretation of \u003ci\u003eThe Native Trees of Canada.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShapton distills each image into its simplest form, using vivid colors in lush ink and house paint. She takes the otherwise complex objects of trees, pinecones, and seeds and strips them down into bold, almost abstract shapes and colors: the water birch is represented as two pulsating red bulbs contrasted against a gray backdrop; the eastern white pine is represented by a close-up of its cone against a radiant summer sky.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author of \u003ci\u003eGuest Book; Toys Talking; Sunday Night Movies; Swimming Studies; Was She Pretty?\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eImportant Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry\u003c\/i\u003e, Shapton puts forth yet another entirely new facet of her creative artistry.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44583014367410,"sku":"9781770467446","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781770467446_57b2f5b7-ffc5-471f-925a-906d2c24e96a.jpg?v=1786024279"},{"product_id":"9781846144936","title":"Guestbook","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Shapton has created a  mystical territory - a performance, an exhibition,  a guestbook - in  which I felt the ghost within myself; the thing that will outlive me. A  fearless and exquisite book' Miranda July\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuestbook \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the glimmering, unsettling things that haunt  us in the midst of life, combining stories, vignettes and an evocative  curiosity cabinet of artifacts and images - found photographs, original  paintings, Instagram-style portraits - to transform the traditional  ghost story into something else entirely.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Leanne Shapton has a way of making books entirely new, surreal, and uncanny ... \u003ci\u003eGuestbook \u003c\/i\u003econtains  ghost stories for a world of images and captions, in which the ghosts  are all of us, and our strange time' Sheila Heti, author of \u003ci\u003eHow Should a Person Be?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307788349813,"sku":"9781846144936","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781846144936_39344bac-4272-4715-82c1-993c2ed8aed4.jpg?v=1786029250"},{"product_id":"9781917092272","title":"Swimming Studies","description":"\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309713600885,"sku":"9781917092272","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781917092272_280dc3b0-034d-4be2-9587-2fa2e9c82fc1.jpg?v=1786030564"},{"product_id":"9781770461277","title":"Sunday Night Movies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEthereal illustrations expand on a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e series by an acclaimed author and artist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Night Movies \u003c\/i\u003efeatures Leanne Shapton's watercolors of resonant moments in black-and-white cinema. Selecting a brief fragment of each chosen film, she creates an indelible image that is both a hand-painted movie still and a personal response to a fleeting celluloid moment.\u003cbr\u003eTogether, the seventy-eight paintings create a valentine to the world of cinema. Shapton's journey through film history becomes a wistful celebration of the subtle moments in stories, which can often slip by unnoticed. What could be a simple title, still life, or portrait of an actor becomes both illusive and allusive through the medium of these personal paintings.\u003cbr\u003eShapton's bestselling Petit Livre book \u003ci\u003eThe Native Trees of Canada\u003c\/i\u003e took a decades-old government catalogue and reimagined it, employing bold colors and stark shapes to represent familiar trees in their majestic glory. The book was a sleeper hit and went through multiple printings. With \u003ci\u003eSunday Night Movies\u003c\/i\u003e she brings her love of film to light, and the effect is restrained and fanciful, familiar and all new.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56312785240437,"sku":"9781770461277","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781770461277_2df476f3-eb58-4df1-a142-99317dfaf815.jpg?v=1786024929"},{"product_id":"important-artifacts-and-personal-property-from-the-collection-of-lenore-doolan-and-harold-morris","title":"Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris","description":"Lenore Doolan, a food writer for the New York Times, meets Harold Morris, a photographer, at a halloween party in 2002. He is dressed as Harry Houdini.  In Leanne Shapton's marvellously inventive and invented auction catalogue, the 325 lots up for auction are what remain from the relationship between Lenore and Harold (who aren't real people, but might as well be). Through photographs of the couple's personal effects-the usual auction items (jewellery, fine art, and rare furniture) and the seemingly worthless (pyjamas, Post-it notes, worn paperbacks)-the story of a failed love affair vividly and cleverly emerges. From first meeting to final separation, the progress and rituals of intimacy are revealed through the couple's accumulated relics and memorabilia. And a love story, in all its tenderness and struggle, emerges from the evidence that has been left behind, laid out for us to appraise and appreciate. In Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris Leanne Shapton invites us to contemplate what is truly valuable, and to consider the art we make of our private lives.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57483520115061,"sku":"9781408804728","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781408804728.jpg?v=1786178692"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-leanne-shapton.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}