February Book Bag: from to a graphic novel of Ruth Asawa's life to a tome of Glenn Brown's works

"I'm rather like Dr Frankenstein, constructing paintings out of the residue or dead parts of other artists' work. I hope to create a sense of strangeness by bringing together examples of the way the best historic and modern-day artists have depicted their personal sense of the world," Brown adds.

Aged 16, she was among 120,000 Japanese Americans to be interned by the US government following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbour. This graphic novel depicts the horror of Pearl Harbour and Asawa's education at Black Mountain College where she flourished under the tutelage of influential teachers such as the Bauhaus pioneer Josef Albers.

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