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Whilst these records were being conceived, rehearsed, recorded and
produced, Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood made hundreds of images.
These ranged from obsessive, insomniac scrawls in biro to
six-foot-square painted canvases, from scissors-and-glue collages
to immense digital landscapes. They utilised every medium they
could find, from sticks and knives to the emerging digital
technologies. The work chronicles their obsessions at the time:
minotaurs, genocide, maps, globalisation, monsters, pylons, dams,
volcanoes, locusts, lightning, helicopters, Hiroshima, show homes
and ring roads. What emerges is a deeply strange portrait of the
years at the commencement of this century. A time that seems an age
ago - but so much remains the same.
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Holloway (Paperback, Main)
Dan Richards, Robert Macfarlane; Illustrated by Stanley Donwood
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Holloway - a hollow way, a sunken path. A route that centuries of
foot-fall, hoof-hit, wheel-roll and rain-run have harrowed deep
down into bedrock. In July 2005, Robert Macfarlane and Roger Deakin
- author of Wildwood - travelled to explore the holloways of South
Dorset's sandstone. They found their way into a landscape of
shadows, spectres & great strangeness. Six years later, after
Roger Deakin's early death, Robert Macfarlane returned to the
holloway with the artist Stanley Donwood and writer Dan Richards.
The book is about those journeys and that landscape. Moving in the
spaces between social history, psychogeography and travel writing,
Holloway is a beautiful and haunted work of art.
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 Be No Quiet is essential reading, and viewing, for
fans of the band and anyone interested in the explosive mix of
artistic accident, musical ingenuity and creative originality.
'Properly, seriously good. Humoric structure . . . oneiric texture,
with pitch-black basalt fins jutting through.' Robert Macfarlane
'Apocalyptic, darkly funny and spooky.' Dazed Welcome to Stanley
Donwood's fictional universe: a landscape of dark streets and
high-rise concrete, creeping shadows and shifting perspectives; its
citizens forever caught between boredom and paranoia, alive to the
threat of menacing machines and Aliens from Outer Space. Here
disappearances (people, things) are everyday. Relationships are
unstable. Nature has turned unnatural. Unsettling dreams segue into
waking nightmares. In Humor, Stanley Donwood reveals himself as a
contemporary master of the micro-narrative, riffing on the four
humors of the human body - sanguine, phlegm, choler and melancholy
- to rummage beneath the veneer of sanity that passes for civilised
society. Apocalyptic, funny and hallucinogenic in their intensity,
these stories present a series of brief, haunting episodes in a
world drained of meaning, sense and consequence.
In which the writings of the authors Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood
are gathered together. This commonplace book includes faxes, notes,
fledgling lyrics, sketches, lists of all kinds and scribblings
towards nirvana, as were sent between the two authors during the
period 1999 to 2000 during the creation of the Radiohead albums Kid
A and Amnesiac. This is a document of the creative process and a
mirror to the fears, portents and fantasies invoked by the world as
its citizens faced a brave new millennium.
Stanley Donwood says of a selection of stories contained in
Household Worms that were inspired by drinking red wine alone at
night: 'These were written to avoid staring for too long at a
night-filled window that only reflected my own sorry-for-itself
face. Perhaps I should try writing with white wine too. A lighter
tone may emerge. Champagne would probably get me writing jokes for
crackers. Never mind, never mind.' Donwood is best known as an
artist, but this collection confirms his prowess as an equally
talented writer of prose.
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Bad Island (Paperback)
Stanley Donwood
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'Bad Island is an extraordinary, unsettling document: a silent
species-history in eighty frames, a mute future archive. I can
imagine it discovered in the remnants of a civilisation; a set of
runes found amid the ruins. Stark in its lines and dark in its
vision, Bad Island reads you more than you read it' Robert
Macfarlane 'I've read lots of Stanley's stuff and it's always good
and I am in no way biased' Thom Yorke, lead singer of Radiohead
From cult graphic designer and long-time Radiohead collaborator
Stanley Donwood comes a starkly beautiful graphic novel about the
end of the world. A wild seascape, a distant island, a full moon.
Gradually the island grows nearer until we land on a primeval
wilderness, rich in vegetation and huge, strange beasts. Time
passes and things do not go well for the island. Civilization rises
as towers of stone and metal and smoke, choking the undergrowth and
the creatures who once moved through it. This is not a happy story
and it will not have a happy ending. Working in his distinctive,
monochromatic lino-cut style, Stanley Donwood carves out a
mesmerizing, stark parable on environmentalism and the history of
humankind.
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Ness (Paperback)
Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood
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R292
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Eerie, unsettling and hauntingly beautiful - a new collaboration
from the bestselling creators of Holloway, Robert Macfarlane and
Stanley Donwood 'Ness goes beyond what we expect books to do.
Beyond poetry, beyond the word, beyond the bomb -- it is an
aftertime song' Max Porter, Booker-longlisted author of Grief is
the Thing with Feathers Somewhere on a salt-and-shingle island,
inside a ruined concrete structure known as The Green Chapel, a
figure called The Armourer is leading a ritual with terrible
intent. But something is coming to stop him. Five more-than-human
forms are traversing land, sea and time towards The Green Chapel,
moving to the point where they will converge and become Ness. Ness
has lichen skin and willow-bones. Ness is made of tidal drift,
green moss and deep time. Ness has hagstones for eyes and speaks
only in birds. And Ness has come to take this island back. What
happens when land comes to life? What would it take for land to
need to come to life? Using word and image, the pair have together
made a minor modern myth. Part-novella, part-prose-poem,
part-mystery play, in Ness their skills combine to dazzling,
troubling effect. Robert Macfarlane is the author of The Lost Words
with Jackie Morris, The Old Ways and Underland. Stanley Donwood is
an artist and the author of Slowly Downward, Household Worms and
Bad Island.
In Holloway, "a perfect miniature prose-poem" (William Dalrymple),
Macfarlane, artist Stanley Donwood, and writer Dan Richards travel
to Dorset, near the south coast of England, to explore a famed
"hollowed way"-a path used by walkers and riders for so many
centuries that it has become worn far down into the soft golden
bedrock of the region. In Ness, "a triumphant libretto of mythic
modernism for our poisoned age" (Max Porter), Macfarlane and
Donwood create a modern myth about Orford Ness, the ten-mile-long
shingle spit that lies off the coast of East Anglia, which the
British government used for decades to conduct secret weapons
tests.
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