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Autor: WIEDEMANN, JULIUS
Editorial: TASCHEN
Lenguaje: Español
ISBN13: 9783836560931
Reseña: Inside the Mind of Jamie Hewlett - 25 years of works from Gorillaz to The Suggestionists. From the legendary Tank Girl to live-action animations with Gorillaz a Chinese contemporary opera to an exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery artist Jamie Hewlett is one of the most energetic figures of contemporary pop culture. 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 unique cartoon band Gorillaz a virtual pop group of animated characters who have recorded five albums and mounted breathtaking live spectacles. 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 Chengen 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. More recently The Suggestionists an exhibition of prints at the Saatchi Gallery in London demonstrated an exciting new direction in Hewletts practice. This TASCHEN edition Hewletts first major monograph 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 Hewletts exceptional capacity for invention and celebrate a polymath artist who refuses to rest on his laurels or to be pigeonholed into a particular practice.
