Jamie Hewlett. 40th Ed.
30Edizione: Multilingue (Francese, Inglese, Tedesco)Disponibilità: DisponibileQuesta edizione speciale è un aggiornamento della prima monografia di Jamie Hewlett con circa 30 pezzi inediti. Attraverso storie, personaggi, vignette e schizzi dall'epoca di Tank Girl fino ai Gorillaz e ai giorni nostri, ripercorriamo l'eccezionale capacità di invenzione di Hewlett e celebriamo un artista eclettico e anticonformista.
Jamie Hewlett. 40th Ed.
30Inside the Mind of Jamie Hewlett
The artist’s first major monograph, now in an updated edition
With influences ranging from hip hop to zombie slasher movies, Hewlett emerged in the mid-1990s as co-creator of the zeitgeist-defining Tank Girl comic. With then-roommate Damon Albarn, he went on to create the groundbreaking cartoon band Gorillaz. The award-winning virtual pop group of animated characters is a truly global phenomenon. Gorillaz have topped charts around the world, toured the globe from San Diego to Syria, and picked up hundreds of millions of streams and record sales along the way.
Since then, Hewlett has continued to collaborate with Albarn on projects including an elaborate staging of the Chinese novel Monkey: Journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en, complete with circus acrobats, Shaolin monks, and Chinese singers. In 2006, he was named Designer of the Year by the Design Museum in London, and in 2009, Hewlett and Albarn won a BAFTA for their animated Monkey sequence for the Beijing Olympic Games. In 2015 The Suggestionists, an exhibition of prints at the Saatchi Gallery in London, demonstrated an exciting new direction in Hewlett’s practice.
This special edition celebrating TASCHEN’s 40th anniversary updates Hewlett’s first major monograph with around 30 brand new pieces. The book illustrates his thrilling creative journey with more than 400 artworks from the Tank Girl era through Gorillaz and up to the present day. Through stories, characters, strips, and sketches, we trace Hewlett’s exceptional capacity for invention and celebrate a polymath artist who refuses to rest on his laurels, or to be pigeonholed into a particular practice.
L'autore
British artist Jamie Hewlett is a prolific producer of ever-fresh material infused with a punk sensibility. Moving seamlessly between design, art and music, the co-creator of Tank Girl and the virtual band Gorillaz was awarded Designer of the Year by the Design Museum in 2006 and staged his first solo exhibition at London’s Saatchi Gallery in 2015.
L'editore
Julius Wiedemann ha studiato graphic design e marketing, e ha lavorato come art editor per diverse riviste di design e digital media a Tokyo. Le sue numerose pubblicazioni per i tipi di TASCHEN dedicati ai media digitali includono Illustration Now!, Logo Design, Jazz Covers e Information Graphics.
Jamie Hewlett. 40th Ed.
Copertina rigida, 15.6 x 21.7 cm, 1.11 kg, 512 pagineISBN 978-3-8365-8263-6
Edizione: Multilingue (Francese, Inglese, Tedesco)4.3