Avstikkere
Picture book, 64 pages
Published by CappelenDamm 2007
Detours is an art book and an adventure book.
It is neither a typical children’s book nor a typical adult’s book, but it is suitable for children who like to look at pictures and use their imagination. There is no on-going story, but the book has five parts, each with its own story. In addition every picture is a story in itself.
Awards
Årets vakreste Bøker 2008: Årets Bildebok
Årets vakreste Bok 2008
Bologna Ragazzi Award 2008, Fiction
The Bologna Ragazzi Award jury says:
…a brilliant compendium of the visual traditions that best sum up graphic art and illustration of recent years. The author’s keen eye for the most refined forms of Comic Art, his brilliant synthesis of painting in the third millennium, and in-depth understanding of developments in the visual art world have created a book full of allusions, echoes and quotations. But Avstikkere is also a book for the very young. The light-hearted manner in which visual art traditions unfold is the fruit of innovative courage and dignity born of knowledge.
Avstikkere is published in France and Switzerland by La Joie de Lire
Foreign rights: CappelenDamm Agency
The drawings from the book exhibited at Tegnerforbundet and Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall in 2007.