Jim Shaw: Paperback Covers
Language: English
Published by JRP|Editions, 2021
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Growth and Culture, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.Growth and Culture
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Condition: Used - Very good
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Jim Shaw: Paperback Covers; Dream-inspired book covers for imaginary pulp novels by Americana connoisseur-bricoleur Jim Shaw. Texts by Clément Dirié, Marc Jancou, Lionel Bovier, Samuel Gross, Jim Shaw, and Charlie Fox ; Published byJRP|Editions, 2021. Condition: Very Good (VG).
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- Title
- Jim Shaw: Paperback Covers
- Author
- Jim Shaw
- Publisher
- JRP|Editions
- Publication year
- 2021
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 3037645652
- ISBN 13
- 9783037645659
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Artist's Books
Dream-inspired book covers for imaginary pulp novels by Americana connoisseur-bricoleur Jim Shaw
Since the 1970s, American artist Jim Shaw (born 1952) has used his multimedia artistic practice as a means of exploring and exploiting pop-culture iconography. This publication focuses on one of the key series in Shaw’s corpus, in which he draws inspiration from the Anglo-American graphic design and illustrative tradition of cheap paperback books. Inspired by the artist's intense dreaming life, the Paperback Covers series (1996–2013) recreates the lurid imagery associated with pulp novels, with vertical canvases that depict fantastical and irreverent imagery: in one, a werewolf in suspenders is struck by an oncoming 18-wheeler; in another, a line of chorus girls dance in front of a vampire and a woman in red as the couple is in engulfed by flames. Though these “books” bear no text, Shaw’s paintings evoke exciting narratives within a single image. All the inventoried Paperback Covers are collected in this softcover volume along with a text by Charlie Fox.
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