I’m so so happy to welcome a new guest blogger for the next five days, German artist Ines Christine Geisser! Ines has been emailing me about books she has collected from other parts of the world. She has such an amazing selection of titles, I invited her to share them here. Be sure to learn more about Ines’s work too. She is so talented and runs a blog where you can follow her work. Learn more about her by clicking her name above and following all her fun links.
(The title in English translates to The Brave Shall Inherit the Future)
I bought this book during a workshop at the picturebook museum Troisdorf in Germany. I wanted to buy it when it came out as a “tolles Heft” (”the terrific booklets”), which is a series of booklets published by Armin Abmeier. “ABECEDERIA” by Blexbolex is also one of those booklets. The booklet is sold out, but there’s a new book version of it, which is the one I got. Yvonne Kuschel was born in Danzig, Germany in 1958 and is now settled in Leipzig, Germany with her family. She works as a professor of drawing and illustration at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. Unfurtunatelly I couldn’t find a homepage or a blog featuring her work, so you’ll have to google her yourself. This beautiful book is about marriage and separation, desire and disillusion. It mainly is about the emotional mess which worries women as well as men. I just love Yvonnes’ tender and poetical illustrations which are very ironic as well. The text is in German, but it’s only short sentences. I found a pdf in english on the publishers’ homepage here. Yvonne made two other “tolle Hefte”. One which is also already sold out here, and this one, which is still available here. It’s about German palindromes. You can buy this book here.
So my question for now would be: whom does the future belong to?
