{"product_id":"9783869300450","title":"Record 1974\/1975 - Mabou Coal Mines","description":"\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, Gerhard Druckerei und Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47038299078896,"sku":"9783869300450","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9783869300450_p0.jpg?v=1763700996","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9783869300450","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}