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You are invited to take an art class with the master of aesthetic curiosity, Nick Bantock. Urgent 2nd Class is an inspirational handbook for making art by embellishing and tampering with old documents, maps, postcards, scraps, envelopes, and other ephemera. Written in Bantock's ebullient, intimate prose and featuring numerous visual samples, Urgent 2nd Class shows how to alchemically transform the unexpected into your own idiosyncratic art. Book jacket.

Nick Bantock is the author of numerous illustrated novels, including Griffin & Sabine , Sabine's Notebook , The Golden Mean , The Gryphon , and Alexandria , which together spent 100 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list. Born in England, he now lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Introduction	p. 1
Faux Mail	p. 7
Dubious Documents	p. 15
Maps	p. 23
Engravings	p. 29
Money	p. 35
Photographs	p. 41
Stamps	p. 49
Books and Magazines	p. 55
Commercial Ephemera	p. 63
Postcards	p. 69
Rubber Stamps	p. 77
Photocopies	p. 85
Drawings	p. 91
Handwriting and Type	p. 97
Games	p. 103
Collage	p. 111
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Urgent 2nd Class Creating Curious Collage, Dubious Documents, and Other Art from Ephemera

Urgent 2nd Class Creating Curious Collage, Dubious Documents, and Other Art from Ephemera

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