
Formless Irregular
Babs Santini(Author)
Strange Attractor Press
Published on 20. April 2021
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-907222-83-2 (ISBN)
Description
The absurd, playful, and often deeply strange art of Steven Stapleton.Absurd, playful and often deeply strange, Steven Stapleton's art recalls the otherness in the work of Roland Topor, Hannah Höch, and Max Ernst. The images represent a vivid visual interpretation of Nurse With Wound's infamous designation as "purveyors of sinister whimsy," existing in a visual realm that reflects the early twentieth-century European avant-garde. Occasionally sinister, always enigmatic, and often humorous, the counterpoints explored in Stapleton's assembled montages and paintings suggest a kind of suspended reality, where logic is replaced by something oddly familiar yet ultimately unknowable.Produced in close collaboration with Stapleton, this beautifully designed and lavishly illustrated hardcover volume includes photographs and reproductions from his personal archive and from private collections around the world. Also included are essays by his long time collaborator David Tibet and his friend screenwriter Geoff Cox."I admire Nurse With Wound, the self-proclaimed 'purveyors of sinister whimsy to the wretched,' not only for a staggering level of productivity, but for being so reliably unpredictable. Whatever you think you know about NWW will likely be confounded by whatever appears next."
-Bob Nickas, Frieze
-Bob Nickas, Frieze
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
200 color illus.; 400 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 254 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-907222-83-2 (9781907222832)
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