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A Salute to Cooking (Hardcover)
Angela Currie; Illustrated by Gerald Scarfe; Foreword by HRH the Prince of Wales
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Features recipes from over 100 celebrities including TV chefs and
those from the world of business, media, military, politics, sport,
stage and screen.
From 2011 up until his death at the end of 2016, the inimitable AA
Gill reigned supreme as Uncle Dysfunctional, Esquire's resident
advice columnist. In this raffish, hilarious, scathing yet often
surprisingly humane collection, Gill applies his unmatched wit to
the largest and smallest issues of our time.
In the stunning retrospective Scarfe, which expands on 2005's
Drawing Blood in every way, Gerald Scarfe's work is presented as no
book has presented it before. This fully illustrated, 576-page
volume reveals the truth of sixty years of politics and culture,
packed with images that have defined not only one artist's career,
but also twentieth and twenty-first century British life. A
showcase of Scarfe's glittering career in design, reportage and
showbusiness, Scarfe presents drawings, sculptures and photographs
alongside witty and poignant captions and stories. Scarfe's muses:
Thatcher, Clinton, Blair, May and Trump, as well as many other
titanic figures of our times are all here, revealed as they really
are by Scarfe's cutting pen. Carefully curated by the artist
himself, this monumental book is the definitive guide to the career
of a national treasure.
In Long Drawn Out Trip: My Life, Gerald Scarfe tells his life story
for the first time. With captivating, often thrilling stories, he
takes us from his childhood and early days at Punch and Private
Eye, through his long and occasionally tumultuous career as the
Sunday Times cartoonist, to his film-making at the BBC and
much-loved designs for Pink Floyd's The Wall and Disney's Hercules.
Along the way he has drawn Churchill from life, gone on tour with
The Beatles and thoroughly upset Mrs Mary Whitehouse. It is a very
personal, wickedly funny and caustically insightful account of an
artist's life at the forefront of contemporary culture and society.
Gerald Scarfe, Britain's most controversial satirical artist, is
famous for having worked with a broad and eclectic mix of British
and American icons, including Pink Floyd and Disney. But he is
perhaps best known for his political cartoons, which have appeared
in numerous newspapers and magazines, notably in the Sunday Times.
Published to coincide with a major exhibition of the original
artworks in the Houses of Parliament, this new book brings together
fifty years of Scarfe's political drawings in a brilliantly
entertaining journey through the history of our nation's leaders,
from Churchill's last visit to the House of Commons in 1965 to the
Thatcher years to Tony Blair's legacy and Gordon Brown's succession
in 2007. With razor-sharp wit and exuberant energy, Scarfe's
drawings lampoon our leaders' political ambitions, scandals and
disasters in inimitable style.
The Art of Pink Floyd The Wall is a sumptuously illustrated book,
collecting Gerald Scarfe's iconic work for Pink Floyd. First The
Wall was an album, then it was a stage show, a film - now there
will be the definitive book, which will be a work of art in its own
right. This large, landscape-format book, presented in a stunning
slipcase designed by Scarfe, is packed with photos, drawings and
designs which will incorporate the iconic imagery of The Wall
alongside new and previously unseen material. Forty years on, The
Wall has lost none of its impact, and its themes are more relevant
than ever. Presenting the phenomenal artwork as it has never been
seen before, The Art of Pink Floyd The Wall is a must-have for any
Pink Floyd fan.
This is a truly exceptional collection of drawings from one of our
most revered cultural commentators. Gerald Scarfe began his career
in the 60s working for PUNCH and PRIVATE EYE before taking a job as
a political cartoonist for the DAILY MAIL. He then worked for TIME
Magazine in New York before starting his long association with the
SUNDAY TIMES that still exists today in the form of his weekly
drawings. His varied career has seen him work with Pink Floyd (The
Wall, Wish You Were Here), Roger Waters and Eric Clapton (The Pros
and Cons of Hitchhiking), Disney (Hercules), English National
Ballet (The Nutcracker), Los Angeles Opera (Fantastic Mr Fox) as
well as produce such iconic images as those for the titles of Yes
Minister and Yes Prime Minister. His work has featured in the New
Yorker and various BBC TV films such as Scarfe on Sex and Scarfe on
Class. Exhibitions of his paintings and drawings have appeared in
the Tate Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian
National Portrait Gallery. He is viewed by many as both a national
treasure and a genius and this is the first collection of his work
to appear for 20 years.
In 1964 a young artist sat in the public gallery of the House of
Commons, sketching former Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The
Sunday Times refused to print the resulting drawing of this frail,
aged figure - so far from the public image of the man - it was too
truthful. In the sixty years since, Gerald Scarfe's work has
continued to expose the truth, and has appeared many times in the
pages of the Sunday Times, in the Evening Standard, New Yorker,
Private Eye and Time, as well as on the walls of the V&A and
the Tate, the stages of the English National Opera and the English
National Ballet, and cinema screens around the world in the form of
Pink Floyd The Wall and Disney's Hercules. In Long Drawn Out Trip,
Gerald tells his life story for the first time. With captivating,
often thrilling stories, he takes us back to his wartime childhood
and the terrible curse of asthma, through his days as an
advertising draughtsman, to his field reporting in Vietnam and the
giddy highs of rock 'n' roll. He also reveals the process of
cartooning - and the ways that certain subjects have reacted to his
visions of them. Along the way he has been car-jacked in Derry,
dined with royals, and thoroughly upset Mrs Mary Whitehouse. It is
a very personal, wickedly funny and caustically insightful account
of an artist's life at the forefront of contemporary culture and
society.
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