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Beautifully illustrated. She gives birth to a cat! How cool is that?!
Well Audrey Niffenegger is quite unique not merely in her craft of acquaintance, as a well established writer but she is able to contrive a world of magical realism with unparalleled simplicity yet deeply personal., since her illustrations depict an out-of our own world, perhaps an inner world which is hidden by our peers. Still when one finds himself in a ~dead-end street~ it springs forth unbound. My take on this work is that iτ's probably a "stitch" of creative ideas by an artist that feels e...
What a weird little story.
The Adventuress is the first book by American author and artist, Audrey Niffenegger. It was created when Niffenegger was a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, developing from a series of drawings. The original books were hand printed: a limited edition of ten copies. The drawings are aquatints, featuring a young woman in a skirt and long gloves, created by an alchemist. After the woman is kidnapped by a Baron, the story takes some bizarre turns, including transformation into a...
This picture book was originally put together as a class project in college; be warned that it does not show any of the story telling prowess Niffenegger later exhibited in The Time Traveler's Wife. I ran across the book because it was shelved next to a copy of The Time Traveler's Wife, and its large format caught my eye.If you "read" this book, I recommend going through it the first time looking only at the pictures. Don't look at the words at all, or at least not until your second time through...
Nine times out of ten I think graphic novels are entirely forgettable, but this one made me want to buy it. Spare, poetic, haunting. I love it.I also loved Niffenegger's comments on the book's process of creation, which were included at the end. It surprised me that the whole thing was originally completed between 1983 and 1985, when the author was in art school. The style of The Adventuress feels entirely postmodern, and fits right in with the current taste. So...way ahead of its time?Like a bl...
The story itself is simple and the art is beautiful. I'm a fan of Niffenegger's novels so it was cool to see a piece of her visual art set to story. I enjoyed learning about the process it took to make the pictures - sounds intense and involves a nitric acid bath.I'd probably suggest this book as a library borrow, as opposed to a purchase.
A woman captured by an avaricious lord. A metamorphosis into a moth. A union with Napoleon. A cat born from a woman. A betrayal. A death. Spirit travelling. This is basically the story of Audrey Niffenegger's picture story The Adventuress. Fascinating artwork strung together with single sentences or labels to construct something of a mystical fairy tale. The story is second after the art as Niffenegger says in the afterword. She created the pictures as they came to her in a dream-like state and
The edition I read (Abrams, ISBN 081097052X) is physically lush. The spine is done up in something resembling green suede and the pages are thick like good cheese. I can see where some people might be turned off. I won't be sharing this story with kids under 14 because of the ambiguous "wedding night" scene. But, I liked the bizarre, dreamy, and inexplicable twists the story took (It reminded me of Robert Altman's "Three Women."). I don't know how she just up and left Maurice, but in both books
So I checked this book out of the library at the same as Niffenegger's other illustrated novel The Three Incestuous Sisters. I read The Adventuress second, and I found myself flipping through it much faster than I had with the other visual novel. As Niffenegger explains in what amounts to The Afterword, she created this book in two years while she was studying art in Chicago. In comparison, it is clear that The Three Incestuous Sisters was a labor of love over the course of many, many years. The...
Young Niffenegger began the Adventuress as sketches with no aim in mind. She never found one.There was no harmony between the minimalist text and pictures. The 2 or 3 words printed with each picture were on the opposite page which upsets me -- all that wasted space! All that paper wasted! It never would have been published without the success of The Time Traveller's Wife.This book is a product of ego. What a shitty book!
