Last year at Kew Gardens / Emily McVarish.

New York City : Granary Books, 2018.

San Francisco : Printed by Emily McVarish, 2018.

54 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

BEIN Zab M252 2018L: Copy no. 16. Autograph of Emily McVarish.

"Written, designed, hand-set, and printed by Emily McVarish in San Francisco for Granary Books in New York City. Sir William Jackson Hooker's Kew Gardens or, A Popular Guide to the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew (1851), Alain Robbe-Grillet's Last Year at Marienbad (1961), and New York Times headlines (May-July, 2016) provided the text's source material. Last year at Kew Gardens was bound by John DeMerritt in an edition of 35, of which 25 for sale"--Colophon.

"Last Year at Kew Gardens is composed of words lifted from an 1858 guide to Kew Gardens and a 1961 screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet. Intercutting moments of inner life with global news headlines, the text attempts to track the phenomenology of media consumption and grasp how individuals metabolize world events. The book borrows its sweeping approach and contrasting scales from the tradition of the "world landscape" (Weltlandschaft). It uses the "language of cinema" to position subjectivity and the microcosm of a botanical garden to relate devastating personal experiences to the apocalyptic implications of climatic, economic, and political trends."--Granarybooks.com.

New York times. 2016. Selections.

English

January 29, 2020