Rememberance of Dogs Past by Thierry Poncelet

Rememberance of Dogs Past by Thierry Poncelet

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A collection of 70 humorous portraits, beginning with an 18th- or 19th-century-style ancestral portrait. Poncelet paints a dog's head over that of the original human subject and the result looks uncannily real. Humorist Bruce McCall has named each dog and offered biographical sketches.

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Rememberance of Dogs Past by Thierry Poncelet

Sit!, the perfect gift for everyone who thinks that dogs are people too, now begins a new life in paperback. Renamed REMEMBERANCE OF DOGS PAST, this fetching collection of 70 disarmingly funny portraits is a fresh and funny as ever. Beginning with an 18th- or 19th-century ancestral portrait, Thierry Poncelet seamlessly paints in a dog's head over the original human subject's. The resulting tour de force is a fantasy that looks uncannily real, the dogs appearing all too human in their military regalia or elaborate gowns. And for a glorious twist, New Yorker humorist Bruce McCall names each dog and offers a brilliant tongue-in-cheek biographical sketch. Thus there's Lord Gristle (black labrador), proprietor of a vast tabloid chain, with dark memories of rolled-up newspapers; Marie-Claire DuBossy (white poodle), who shocked France's poetry circles by refusing to beg; and Percival Horace Denbeigh (Jack Russell terrier), Britain's foremost military correspondent, with an infallible nose for news. It's a howl.
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ISBN 13 9780761125440
ISBN 10 0761125442
Title Rememberance of Dogs Past
Author Thierry Poncelet
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Workman Publishing Company
Year published 2001-09-01
Number of pages 96
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.