{"id":13687,"date":"2023-04-20T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=13687"},"modified":"2023-04-21T10:11:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T15:11:04","slug":"q","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=13687","title":{"rendered":"Q is for quiet, quizzical CREATURE drawings and paintings by Shaun Tan (Nonfiction book review) #A2Z"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A mechanical gecko,
a garden atop a traveling snail’s shell,
an armored jet-propelled ancient fish\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imaginary beings are at the heart of Shaun Tan’s most beloved books: The Arrival<\/em>, Tales from Outer Suburbia<\/em>, The Lost Thing<\/em> (also made into an award-winning short film – trailer here<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collected in this large and beautiful book are 25 years of the Australian artist’s paintings and drawings from those books, as well as many standalone works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe first thing I remember drawing was a creature\u2026 and not much has changed since.” (page 7)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tan writes intriguing commentary about influences on his style and subject matter – old monster movies, Aboriginal stories, birds in his family’s neighborhood – and how his imagination reinterpreted them as he told stories through images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enjoy these large-scale pictures of mechanico-animal beings, humans living alongside unusual beasties, and transformational situations, then flip to the back and read Tan’s notes about how each creature was made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Includes this set of creature Emoticons<\/em>, 2016, pencil on paper, digitally composited, originally published in The Stick<\/em> and Der Spiegel<\/em>, as shown on Tan’s website<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Emoticons,<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What creature from your own imagination would you like to meet?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: Creature: Paintings, Drawings, and Reflections \/ Shaun Tan. Levine Querido, 2022. [author site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher; Emoticons illustration from https:\/\/www.shauntan.net\/creature-book-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A mechanical gecko, a garden atop a traveling snail’s shell, an armored jet-propelled ancient fish\u2026 Imaginary beings are at the heart of Shaun Tan’s most beloved books: The Arrival, Tales from Outer Suburbia, The Lost Thing (also made into an award-winning short film – trailer here). Collected in this large and beautiful book are 25 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,23],"tags":[10,90,272,124,104,22,364,11,5,16,49,111,31,15,35,58,6],"class_list":["post-13687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-nonfiction","tag-a2z","tag-abandonment","tag-animals","tag-art","tag-australia","tag-behavior","tag-birds","tag-communication","tag-coping","tag-determination","tag-memories","tag-non-us-artist","tag-non-us-author","tag-relationships","tag-surprises","tag-technology","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/04creaturewalkercover.jpg?fit=1000%2C1147&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13687"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13819,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13687\/revisions\/13819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}