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Room to Dream (Paperback, Main)
David Lynch, Kristine McKenna
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER David Lynch - co-creator of Twin
Peaks and writer and director of groundbreaking films such as
Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive -
opens up about a lifetime of extraordinary creativity, the
friendships he has made along the way and the struggles he has
faced to bring his projects to fruition. Room to Dream is both an
astonishing memoir told in Lynch's own words and a landmark
biography based on hundreds of interviews, that offers unique
insights into the life and mind of one of the world's most
enigmatic and original artists.
David Lynch has always been in the spotlight as a filmmaker,
directing some of the most iconic movies ever made, but as a visual
artist, he is less widely known. Lynch delights in the physicality
of painting and likes to stimulate all the senses in his work. This
new paperback edition brings together Lynch’s paintings,
photography, drawings, sculpture and installation, and stills from
his films. Many of these works reveal the dark underpinnings behind
Lynch’s often-macabre movies. Others explore his fascination with
texture and collage. Throughout, Lynch’s characteristic
style—surreal, stylish, and even humorous—shines through. An
introduction by music journalist and Lynch biographer Kristine
McKenna, along with a thought- provoking essay by curator Stijn
Huijts, offers fascinating new information and perspectives on
Lynch’s life and career. This book reveals an unexplored facet of
Lynch’s oeuvre and affirms that he is as brilliant a visual
artist as he is a filmmaker.
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I Scare Myself - A Memoir (Paperback)
Dan Hicks; Foreword by Elvis Costello; Afterword by Tommy LiPuma; Edited by Kristine McKenna
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'Dan is a national treasure and one of America s great songwriters.
Elvis Costello. 'Dan s songs were funny, serious, and entertaining,
and the combo of old-timey folk, country, and jazz knocked me out.
Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons. 'Dan Hicks is like
lightning in a bottle. Bette Midler. Dan Hicks didn t have his
heart set on a career in music. It all just sort of happened to
him. It didn t hurt, of course, that he was in the right place at
the right time San Francisco, 1966 and had a front-row seat for the
birth and death of the counterculture. Among other things, this is
a classic story of the 60s. More importantly, it s a story of
musical genius. By the time the Summer of Love limped to a close in
the fall of 67, Hicks had quit the Charlatans the pioneering
psych-rock band with whom he played the drums and turned to jazz,
the music he d secretly loved all along, as he began building his
own band, the Hot Licks. 'I just started taking ingredients I liked
and putting them together to see what came out, Hicks writes. What
came out was an amazing blend of complex time signatures, unusual
instrumentation, and intricate vocal harmonies that took him to the
top of the 70s rock world but also into a downward spiral of drink
and drug abuse. Emerging from a long wilderness, which he writes
about here with wit and candour, the man described by Tom Waits as
'fly, sly, wily, and dry eventually returned to recording and
performing, making a number of acclaimed albums, including Beatin
The Heat, a set of duets with Waits, Costello, Rickie Lee Jones,
and more. Along the way, his music continued to subtly permeate the
culture, turning up everywhere from The Sopranos to commercials for
Levi s and Bic. Hicks passed away in early 2016, but his music, and
the stories he tells here, remain as fresh and irresistible as
ever. I Scare Myself takes readers on a journey behind the music,
and into the life and mind of the fantastic artist who created it.
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Samia Halaby: Centers of Energy
Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert; Text written by Michael Duncan, Kristine McKenna
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Samia Halaby: Centers of Energy will bring together approximately
thirty-five of Halaby’s paintings, prints, and drawings in the
first-ever American survey of her work. Rather than presenting a
chronological development of her artistic approach to abstraction,
the exhibition catalogue will examine formal and thematic
relationships across bodies of work, considering simultaneously the
influence of her time spent in the Midwest, her years of teaching,
and her analytic approach to generating forms, both on canvas and
in computer code. Halaby’s current explorations in large-scale
painting will be explored alongside her earliest forays into
abstraction, with examples of her prolific drawing practice
permeating throughout. Significantly, her kinetic paintings will
demonstrate the development of abstract forms into moving
compositions of colour and texture. Halaby’s current explorations
in large-scale painting will be explored alongside her earliest
forays into abstraction, with examples of her prolific drawing
practice permeating throughout. Significantly, her kinetic
paintings will demonstrate the development of abstract forms into
moving compositions of colour and texture. Samia Halaby (b. 1936)
is widely recognized as a pioneer in twentieth-century abstraction
and computer-generated art. She is a leading scholar on Palestinian
art. In the last twenty years, Halaby has expanded her practice to
larger, more ambitious paintings and canvas-based assemblages. She
is an early practitioner of digital art, teaching herself
programming languages and generating “kinetic paintings” of
colourful shapes, sounds, and textures on a late 1980s Amiga
computer. Throughout the 1990s, she developed a custom PC program
that can generate moving shapes with live keyboard commands. With
musicians Kevin Nathaniel Hylton and Hasan Bakr, she formed the
Kinetic Painting Group and performed around the United States and
in the Middle East. These kinetic paintings and performances, which
Halaby has archived as digital video files, have been little
studied and not yet exhibited.
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William Eggleston - For Now (Hardcover)
William Eggleston; Text written by Lloyd Fonvielle, Kristine McKenna, Amy Taubin; Afterword by Michael Almereyda
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For Now is the result of film-maker Michael Almereyda's year-long
rummage through the Eggleston archives, a remarkable collection of
heretofore unseen images spanning four decades of work by one of
our seminal artists. Unusual in its concentration on family and
friends, the book highlights an air of offhand intimacy, typical of
Eggleston and typically surprising. Afterword by Michael Almereyda,
with additional texts by Lloyd Fonvielle, Greil Marcus, Kristine
McKenna and Amy Taubin.
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Room to Dream (Paperback)
David Lynch, Kristine McKenna
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