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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Paperback)
Robert Louis Stevenson; Adapted by Andrzej Klimowski, Peter Jenny
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After Jekyll's experiment, the harrowing effects of his split
personality transform him from a respected member of society into a
sinister figure terrorising the streets. Klimowski and Schejbal
have been lauded for capturing 'the real horror and tension of the
original' in their masterful re-telling.
This is another disturbing novel without words by the Polish
artist-illustrator of The Depository. The narrative is rendered
entirely as a sequence of 300 pages of compelling drawings and
photo-montages. The Secret projects an unsettling story about a
young woman and her two children who vanish from their apartment
one evening, leaving a distraught husband to follow a trail of
sinister signs and traces left by their abductors. There is
something alarming and almost occult in the forces at work in the
background, and a turning point in the mystery is a giant camera
obscura which ultimately envelops everything. The Secret, in its
metamorphosis of daily reality into a dark and frightening dream
world, leaves a stream of surreal images and ideas in the visual
memory and the mind.
By the end of this wordless novel, when the artist wakes and ends
the nightmare, readers have experienced a visual thriller with
political overtones.
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Stardust Nation (Paperback)
Deborah Levy; Illustrated by Andrzej Klimowski
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For the high-flying, heavy-drinking advertising boss Tom Banbury,
the art of persuasion relies on an infiltration of the consumer's
mind. In the case of his colleague and confidante Nikos Gazidis,
the overdeveloped sense of empathy that makes him so well suited to
the business has resulted in a strange psychiatric condition. Nick
has unwittingly crashed into the consciousness of his boss. While
Tom drinks to forget the troubles of his earthly life, Nick is
forced to confront a past that is not his own: a childhood scarred
by the small wars waged by an abusive father-and by the events that
brought these battles to a close. When Nick enters the panicked
silence of the Abbey, a fortress for the rich and unstable, his
sister guards him from the visiting Tom Banbury. But can this
peculiar bond be broken? Or has Nikos Gazidis taken an empathetic
leap too far?
"He leads the field by a very long furlong, out on his own, making
his own weather. He is Klimowski, unafraid."-Harold Pinter, Nobel
Prize-winning playwright In the mid-1970s, Andrzej Klimowski's
fearlessly original artwork caught the eye of leading Polish
theater and film companies, for whom he designed some of the
period's most iconic posters. The London-born artist, who moved to
Poland at a time when many East Europeans dreamed of going West,
went on to create posters for works by filmmakers and playwrights
from Scorsese to Altman, Beckett to Brecht. Drawing on folk art and
Polish Surrealism, Klimowski uses techniques including photomontage
and linocut to create posters that are filled with metaphor, drama,
and originality.
Walter Benjamin is often considered the key modern philosopher and
critic of modern art. Tracing his influence on modern aesthetics
and cultural history, Introducing Walter Benjamin highlights his
commitment to political transformation of the arts as a means to
bring about social change. Benjamin witnessed first-hand many of
the cataclysmic events of modern European history. He took a
critical stance on the dominant ideologies of Marxism, Zionism and
Technocracy, and his attempt to flee Nazi Europe ultimately led to
his suicide in 1940. With its brilliant combination of words and
images, this is an ideal introduction to one of the most elusive
philosophers.
Immanuel Kant laid the foundations of modern Western thought. Every
subsequent major philosopher owes a profound debt to Kant's
attempts to delimit human reason as an appropriate object of
philosophical enquiry. And yet, Kant's relentless systematic
formalism made him a controversial figure in the history of the
philosophy that he helped to shape. Introducing Kant focuses on the
three critiques of Pure Reason, Practical Reason and Judgement. It
describes Kant's main formal concepts: the relation of mind to
sensory experience, the question of freedom and the law and, above
all, the revaluation of metaphysics. Kant emerges as a diehard
rationalist yet also a Romantic, deeply committed to the power of
the sublime to transform experience. The illustrated guide explores
the paradoxical nature of the pre-eminent philosopher of the
Enlightenment, his ideas and explains the reasons for his
undiminished importance in contemporary philosophical debates.
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