STANLEY DONWOOD

The talent behind Radiohead s iconic artwork reveals in his own words and for the first time the creative process that has driven his career and earned him a cult reputation A restless and prolific figure Stanley Donwood is widely regarded as one of the most important visual artists of his generation His influential work for Radiohead spans many practices and ever evolving aesthetics over a 23 year period from music packaging to installations to print making Here for the very first time he reveals his personal notebooks photographs sketches and abandoned routes to iconic Radiohead artworks Arranged chronologically chapters are each dedicated to a major work be it an album cover promotional piece or a personal project presented as a step by step working case study from speculative ideas and sketches right through to Photoshop experiments and the finished piece Accompanying narratives by Donwood explain the inspirations and stories behind his creative process and what it is like to work with the band told with his typical razor sharp humour and generosity of spirit Featuring a treasury of archive material this is the first deep dive into Donwood s creative practice and the artistic freedom afforded to him by working for a major music act There Will

Kid a mnesia es un libro de pasta dura de 240 x 189mm y 360 páginas, en las que Thom Yorke, líder de Radiohead, se une al escritor y artista inglés, Stanley Donwood para relatar el proceso creativo de dos de los mas emblematicos discos de la banda, Kid A y Amnesiac. El libro incluye 300 obras de arte en color creadas por Yorke y Danwood, que van desde los insomnes garabatos y lienzos de casi dos metros de altura, collages hechos con tijeras y pegamento, hasta paisajes digitales inmersivos; todos ellos creados mientras los integrantes de Radiohead diseñaban, ensayaban y grababan los albumes.Kid a mnesia tambien presenta un dialogo entre Yorke y Donwood sobre el proceso creativo y Kid Alphabet, un ensayo especialmente escrito por el guionista y director de cine, Gareth Evans (The Raid 2: Berandal, Gangs Of London) sobre el trabajo de Radiohead.

There was disaster coming; that was blindingly obvious. Life had been almost ridiculously easy, and now things were going to get worse. Much, much worse. I couldnt believe that I had ever thought otherwise. I couldnt believe that Id ever thought that there could be any other outcome. Stanley Donwoods fictional universe is one in which anything can happen, and frequently does. Disappearances (people, things) are everyday. Relationships are unstable. Nature has turned unnatural. Its the kind of world (the kind of book) in which you might walk into a room only to find, that room, has ... no ... floor. A substantial selection of Stanleys fiction over the past ten years or so, (title) shows a contemporary master of the micro narrative. Apocalyptic, funny, unsettling and hallucinogenic in their intensity, Stanley Donwoods stories present a series of haunting episodes in a world drained of meaning, sense and consequence.

áEl miedo acecha al territorio! reúne los escritos del músico Thom Yorke y el artista visual Stanley Donwood entre los años 1999 y 2000, un período marcado por el proceso creativo que dio lugar a dos de los discos mas experimentales y aclamados de Radiohead, Kid A y Amnesiac.Faxes, notas, letras de canciones, dibujos, listas, garabatos,, todo un collage que documenta el trabajo de dos artistas en plena ebullicion. El resultado es una fascinante inmersion en dos albumes que son ya dos clasicos de la musica contemporanea, reflejo de los miedos, augurios y fantasias que el mundo provocaba con la llegada del nuevo milenio."Los temas que el libro explora el calentamiento global, la vigilancia gubernamental, el poder corrosivo de internet siguen siendo sorprendentemente vigentes".The Scotsman