The phenomenally creative musician and filmmaker David Byrne presents new artworkthat explores daily life in surprising ways, with unique reflections on shared humanexperiences - a book for our time from a highly influential artist
Through striking and humorous figurative drawings, the iconic artist and musician David Byrne depicts daily life in intriguing ways. His illustrations, created while under quarantine, expand on the dingbat, a typographic ornament used to illuminate or break up blocks of text, to explore the nuances of life under lockdown and evoke the complex, global systems the pandemic cast in bright light. Edited and designed by Alex Kalman in close collaboration with Byrne, this unique book reflects on shared experiences and presents history as a story that is continually undergoing revision.
著者について
David Byrne’spractice spans photography, performance, drawing, illustration, video, design, and publishing. In 1975 he cofounded the seminal group Talking Heads. Byrne’s exuberant and radical creativity has challenged classifications of art for decades. HisBicycle Diarieswas aLos Angeles Timesbestseller and hisHow Music Workswas aNew York Timesbestseller as well as an Amazon Editors’ pick and a Best Book of the Month. His hit Tony Awardwinning theatrical concertAmerican Utopiawas adapted by Spike Lee into a concert film that premiered on HBO and received multiple Emmys.
Alex Kalmanis a curator, designer, editor, journalist, and filmmaker. He is the owner of What Studio? and director of Mmuseumm. His exhibitions have been shown at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art. He is a contributor to theNew York Times, theAtlantic, and theNew Yorker.