Marcel Dzama: Famous Drawings [Pinspot #1] |
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Artist:
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ISBN: | 978-1-889195-64-3 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1998 |
Publisher: | Smart Art Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $85.00 |
Book Description:
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Seemingly aimless but in fact hungrily selective, Marcel Dzama's quirky ink-and-watercolor drawings reflect a unique passion for ambiguity. Conscientiously mined from a range of stylistic sources-from Beatrix Potter to MTV, film noir to Surrealism - but devoid of narrative context and stripped of philosophical pretentions, Dzama's bizarre human/animal scenarios are suffused with a radiant innocence, romantic purity, and an idiosyncratic sense of humor far removed from the ironic norm...
More DescriptionSeemingly aimless but in fact hungrily selective, Marcel Dzama's quirky ink-and-watercolor drawings reflect a unique passion for ambiguity. Conscientiously mined from a range of stylistic sources-from Beatrix Potter to MTV, film noir to Surrealism - but devoid of narrative context and stripped of philosophical pretentions, Dzama's bizarre human/animal scenarios are suffused with a radiant innocence, romantic purity, and an idiosyncratic sense of humor far removed from the ironic norm of contemporary art.OUT OF PRINT.