Sit! : Ancestral Dog Portraits - Bruce McCall, Thierry Poncelet - Paperback - NON-FICTION - ENGLISH - 9780761125440

Summary: Originally published in 1993, Sit! was named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times and was excerpted in Harper's magazine and The New York Times Book Review. George Booth, writing in the NYTBR, called it "the best of humor....Delightful!" while Cosmopolitan pronounced it "irresistible." Renamed Remembrance of Dogs Past, this fetching collection of 70 disarmingly funny portraits is as fresh and funny as ever. Beginning with an 18th- or 19th-century ancestral portrait, Thierry Poncelet seamlessly paints in a dog's head over the original human subject's. The resulting tour de force is a fantasy that looks uncannily real, the dogs appearing all too human in their military regalia or elaborate gowns. And for a glorious twist, New Yorker humorist Bruce McCall names each dog and offers a brilliant tongue-in-cheek biographical sketch. Thus there's Lord Gristle (black Labrador), proprietor of a vast tabloid chain, with dark memories of rolled-up newspapers; Marie-Claire DuBossy (white poodle), who shocked France's poetry circles by refusing to beg; and Percival Horace Denbeigh (Jack Russell terrier), Britain's foremost military correspondent, with an infallible nose for news. It's a howl. Author : Thierry Poncelet, Bruce McCall Binding : Paperback BISAC Subject : Art / History / General, HUMOR / General, Pets / Dogs / General Book Type : NON-FICTION Dewey : 709, 817 Language : ENGLISH Publication Date : 09/01/2001 Subject Development : History Table of Contents Artists & Aesthetes 12 (14) Solange Lars-Hamlet Knudsen Emma Horsely-Hackett Per Jook van Klomp Birgit Bergstrom The Gilded Burymores Marie-Claire DuBossy Sir Algernon Buncombe Le Vicomte de Dogerelle The Dancing Clumbards Charlotte Mumbleford O. O. Wimbey Jycoons & Grandees 26 (6) Sir Isham Blovius Sir Luther Deadbolt Lord Gristle Le Comte de Montecrisco Rube Gordon Royals & Bluebloods 32 (6) King Zoxtor of Albania Duchess Elspeth of Troon Don Vasquez y Vasquez Countess Eugenie Duke Fyodor Kacharatov Don Juans & Temmes Tatales 38 (10) Sir Rufus Wilbraham Duchess Tatiana Pavlovna Horace Smickley Dona Marissa Navarro Maurice Maurice Agnes Courvoisier Marquis Don Filippo del Cruzero Alma Mater Alexei Pachinko Swashbucklers & Athletes 48 (6) Bodo Schnopf Dame Ethel Brack-Muggins Commodore Sir Giles Mallard-Stalker Sir Bulford Chipwich Miss Eulalie Featherbridge Explorers & Visionaries 54 (8) August-Karlfried Pfummel Madame Dr. Hortense de Mops The Fifth Earl of Hearsay Sir Duncan Wilberforce Amanda Des Moines Frau Irmtraud Katzundhunde Nils Andersen Gads, Rotters, & Rogues 62 (6) Madame Blahatska Yuri Malishnikov Edouard de Ville Wally Bean Emile de Snide Persons of Great Affairs 68 (12) Percival Horace Denbeigh Hartmut von Bierstadt Karl-Heinrich Mutz Georgi Ablomolotovski Miss Neva Sneldrake Sir Obsidian Smuckles Jacques Russell Nadia Borovinka Sir Harry Pobjoy Baron Lutz von Wag Madame Sophie Argent Denizens of the Demimonde 80 (8) V. V. Pnin Babette Demalomar Dolores Sanchez-Pellagroso Chevalier de Saint-Denis Fanny Dupuis Annie Laurie MacNutt Zuzu Dogs of War 88 General Sir Rex Clagg-Ponsonby Graf Ludwig Hespeler zu Galt Rear Admiral Oswald Brabant Major General Otto von Schnauzer Marechal Hector Defechereux