{"product_id":"june-leaf-record-1974-75-mabou-coal-mines-9783869300450","title":"June Leaf: Record 1974\/75 Mabou Coal Mines","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): June Leaf\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Steidl\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Steidl\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Individual Artists - Artists Books\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is a facsimile of June Leaf's sketchbook from the winter of 1974 and 1975, spent in Mabou Coal Mines, Nova Scotia. She has lived here since 1969 with her husband, Swiss-American photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank. The book is above all a working document of Leaf's thoughts. Drawing is her primary medium, an approach explained in her first written entry of 26 November, 1974: \"I don't usually like to write because I am more satisfied by an action.\" Her sketches are exploratory, inquisitive, incomplete: for example, she refines a motif as simple as a knot over days and weeks, drawing it in different ways until it becomes no more than a detail in a larger, more complex picture. Leaf is not afraid to express the difficulty of the creative process, her frustration as well as her progress: \"I've come to a dead stop. Should make a sculpture--don't want to! Should play the fiddle--don't want to! Should take a walk--too cold. Where's the inspiration?\" Amidst such uncertainty Leaf's husband remains a constant source of inspiration: representations of Frank are scattered throughout the book, from its opening pages to the last.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Steidl","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47813535891607,"sku":"9783869300450","price":5225.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783869300450.webp?v=1778336659","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/june-leaf-record-1974-75-mabou-coal-mines-9783869300450","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}