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Melancholy Death Of Oyster Boy Tim Burton
Faber & Faber 0688156819 / 9780688156817 Hardcover New
Occupying a similarly sinister and macabre world to the American artist Edward Gorey Tim Burton's work is similarly difficult to place. This is a beautifully produced book filled with fine line drawings--many in colour--illustrating 23 small verse stories which all centre on a surreal deformity--the eponymous Oyster Boy Stain Boy The Boy with Nails in his Eyes Junk Girl The Pin Cushion Queen...The tales are all quietly disturbing. As with Burton's cinematic work (Edward Scissorhands Nightmare Before Christmas and Mars Attacks) the book seems aimed at children but the subtexts feel too disquieting. This however is where Burton's genius lies. Children are outcasts in the adult world and their own notion of what is important grave frightening and odd is different to ours. We each remember the child inside of us and so are each compelled to recognise the otherness within ourselves: the outcasts that Burton paints are somehow strangely well known to us. As dark and disturbing as the best fairy tales Burton shares a space with the Brothers Grimm--a place that all children know exists when the lights go out and the adults leave the room.
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24.95 AUD
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Tim Burton Jenny He, Ron Magliozzi, Tim Burton
The Museum of Modern Art 0870707604 / 9780870707605 Paperback New
With a visual style inspired by the aesthetics of animation and silent comedy Tim Burton has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking over the past three decades melding the exotic the horrific and the comic and manipulating expressionism and fantasy with the skill of a graphic novelist. Published to accompany a major retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art this volume considers Burton’s career as an artist and filmmaker. It narrates the evolution of his creative practices following the current of his visual imagination from his earliest childhood drawings through his mature oeuvre. Illustrated with works on paper moving-image stills drawn and painted concept art puppets and maquettes storyboards and examples of his work as a graphic artist for his nonfilm projects this exhibition catalogue sheds new light on Burton and presents previously unseen works from the artist’s personal archive.
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