Death Wish
Starring Charles Bronson, Architect
3rd Edition
Published on 1. November 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
60 pages
978-0-9812869-5-2 (ISBN)
Description
The first one is the hardest.
Then he discovers he likes it.
DEATH WISH: Starring Charles Bronson, Architect is based on the sensationalistic and controversial Death Wish movies, in which Charles Bronson portrays an architect who becomes a vigilante-killer. Death Wish by Rob Kovitz is a kind of enigmatic allegory, in which Bronson is Everyman, and Architecture is the dream/nightmare that goes to bed with each of us at night.
Treyf 25th Anniversary edition.
treyf, adj. [Yiddish] - not kosher, unclean.
Treyf Books by Rob Kovitz - unusual books of an indeterminate type, sort of story-picture remix books for people who can't stomach any more schmaltzy Chicken Soup for the Soul. Treyf Books are cooked up using texts and images compiled from various sources, usually obsessively related to one or more themes, and then recombined through a process of highly subjective editing, ordering and juxtaposition.
"Strange and clever." - Globe & Mail
"Funny, but deep." - Umbrella
"Is this a new form of discourse in step with its multivalent, chaotic times, or just an excuse for intellectual laziness? Only the author knows for sure." - Canadian Architect
More details
Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight
67 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9812869-5-2 (9780981286952)
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Person
Rob Kovitz is the creator of Treyf Books, unusual and ingenious appropriation-montage "novels" that consist of texts and images compiled from various sources, usually obsessively related to one or more themes, and then imaginatively recombined through a process of highly subjective editing, ordering and juxtaposition. Kovitz's previous bookworks include Pig City Model Farm, Room Behavior, According to Plan, The Sweets of Home, and the 8-volume, 4750 page appropriation epic Ice Fishing in Gimli.