Old Growth

Creative Access Description

A book cover with a sage green background featuring a formline shape in Northwest Coast style. The shape is a vertical u-shape that comes to two diverging triangular points a the top. It is outlined with a metallic copper inlay that also highlights the centered sentence case sans serif title as well as circular and T shaped ornamentation in the upper right and bottom centre of the form. Also within the form are the author and editor's names in sentence case sans serif font. The central image is a pencil drawing of a large coniferous tree with a split recess in the bark wide at the base and thinning as it goes up the tree. In the background of the drawing are other similar trees in the forest and the artist's signature. 

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas is a renowned Haida artist who, gradually, during a thirty year career as a political activist, began to apply classic Haida visual forms and narratives to contemporary means of communications, including political cartoons and comics. Old Growth chronicles over thirty years of Yahgulanaas' graphic works that document the history of political negotiations and cultural conflict off the Northwest Coast of Canada from the 1970s to the early 2000s. Containing studies and experiments, finished work previously unpublished, and works that few have seen, this book reflects on such urgent topics as depletion of natural resources, global climate change and the fundamental question of 'how to live together.'

grunt gallery
 

Identifier

2011.0422 OLD D001

Extent

175 pages : illustrations ; hardcover 24 cm

ISBN

9781897476963

Place of Publication

Vancouver, BC

Publication Type

Print

Publisher

grunt gallery, Read Leaf