{"product_id":"richard-kraft-here-comes-kitty-a-comic-opera-hardcover","title":"Richard Kraft: Here Comes Kitty: A Comic Opera - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Kraft\u003c\/b\u003e (Artist), \u003cb\u003eDanielle Dutton\u003c\/b\u003e (Text by (Art\/Photo Books)), \u003cb\u003eAnn Lauterbach\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this wildly irreverent collage narrative, Los Angeles artist Richard Kraft reassembles a pre-perestroika era comic about a Polish spy infiltrating the Nazis, orchestrating a multiplicity of voices into joyous cacophony. Like an Indian miniature painting, each comic book page is densely layered, collapsing foreground and background, breaking the frame and merging time. An enormous cast of characters emerges as Kraft appropriates images and texts from an extraordinary variety of sources (the Amar Chitra Katha comics of Hindu mythology, Jimmy Swaggart's Old and New Testament stories, the 1960s English football annual \u003ci\u003eScorcher, \u003c\/i\u003e underground porn comics like \u003ci\u003eCherry\u003c\/i\u003e, images from art history, outdated encyclopedias and more). Kraft constructs a world constantly in flux, rich with dark humor and revelatory nonsense. Writer Danielle Dutton's set of 16 interpolations punctuate the book using similar strategies of appropriation and juxtaposition to create texts that sing in the same arresting register as Kraft's collages. \u003ci\u003eHere Comes Kitty\u003c\/i\u003e also includes a conversation between poet Ann Lauterbach and artist Richard Kraft\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 64\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 11.4 x 8.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 26, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769894175008,"sku":"9781938221088","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/bc1c36c5aba6164cd92ba463dddf280c.webp?v=1780359147","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/richard-kraft-here-comes-kitty-a-comic-opera-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}