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Douglas Coupland

Born in 1961, Douglas Coupland is a Canadian author and artist whose visual work often explores the links between text and the made object. His novels include Generation X (1991), All Families Are Psychotic (2001), The Gum Thief (2007) and Generation A (2009).

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Art & Photography | Issue 141 padlock
Art & Photography | Issue 141 padlock

The Canada Pictures

Douglas Coupland

‘In the year leading up to this I started collecting objects that, in some way, evoked a sense of Canadianness in me.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 101 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 101 padlock

Zulu Romeo Foxtrot

Douglas Coupland

‘This inflexibility makes sense to a non-visual thinker, but to visual thinkers such dogma is depressing and sad, like forcing ballerinas to wear suits of armour.‘

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