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- PublisherMarshall Cavendish
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 9814346497
- ISBN 13 9789814346498
- BindingPaperback
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Chris Coles: Navigating the Bangkok Noir
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ISBN 13: 9789814346498
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Book Description Softcover, 128 pages; as new condition; clean and crisp; seemingly signed by Chris Coles on page 5; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra. Seller Inventory # ChCoMa25
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Navigating the Bangkok Noir
Published by
Marshall Cavendish
(2011)
ISBN 10: 9814346497
ISBN 13: 9789814346498
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Between the gangsters, the beautiful girls, the vibrant nightlife and the gigantic scale of the city itself, full of its diverse millions and their struggles, the lurid and colorful world of Bangkok's notorious nightlife is brought to life in Chris Coles' series of Expressionist-style paintings. Broad sweeping lines and strong contrasting colors dominate in these artworks, portraying a chaotic edgy world of colliding intention and misplaced desire - lives out of balance, male-female compulsion, alienation and disassociation. At once beautiful and frightening, this collection of paintings is a vibrant celebration of the pyschedelic Bangkok Night and its many shades of noir. Bangkok at midnight: streets splashed with neon, tourists feeding bamboo to baby elephants, hookers eating at roadside tables, eyeing those who pass by, and soldiers in combat kit, carrying automatic weapons standing on the BTS, watching, waiting, and taking in the sights. If noir had a smell it would be jasmine on a hot tropical night in Bangkok, the City of Angels. Noir is more than paintings laced with plumes of cigarette smoke, bottles of beer, angry tarts, and dissolute drunks, it is a world of broken dreams, shattered lives, exploitation that word born of noir and thirty word English vocabularies that must carry the full weight of pleasure and desire, and the rundown short time hotels. This is the opposite of the fairy tale where the orphaned girl is swept up by a prince and given a glamorous life. Noir is the spotlight held on people caught without escape from a pleasure-domed hell. The Bangkok nightlife is where money is the only vocabulary worth memorizing, the only way of measuring happiness and success. And dreams of a better world have a long passed their expiration date. Seller Inventory # 000787
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