Seeing Shakespeare #: William Shakespeare x Marcel Dzama: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Seeing Shakespeare #: William Shakespeare x Marcel Dzama: A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare, Marcel Dzama, Leslie Jamison
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Hardback
h229 x 152mm - 174pg
20 May 2021 US
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9781644230442
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Set in an enchanted forest, Shakespeare' s A Midsummer Night' s Dream is the ideal subject for artist Marcel Dzama, whose work frequently references dreams, fairy tales, and mythical worlds. Inspired by Ovid' s Metamorphoses, Shakespeare' s celebrated romantic comedy intertwines multiple narratives under the influence of transformation and witchcraft. The play is often staged with actors wearing animal masks, an aspect that appeals particularly to Dzama, whose work is characterized by the fusion of human and animal, fantasy and reality. As the second title in David Zwirner Books' s Seeing Shakespeare series, this book revisits this ultimate fairy tale through the eyes of a contemporary artist who feels a special affinity for its imagery.

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"Offers a glimpse into the mind of the artist and his delicately rendered, infinitely bizarre universe. "-- "ARTnews" "Since the late 1990s, Marcel Dzama has populated his ink-and-watercolor drawings with sundry dismemberments and wounds accomplished by swords, knives, arrows, guns, bats, and the occasional mace; the malevolent images may be inspired by hellish doings, but this is hell as circus ring or costume ball. His is a fun-house hell where sinners are condemned to an eternity of enigma. "--Albert Mobilio "BOOKFORUM"
Since rising to prominence in the late 1990s, Canadian-born artist Marcel Dzama (b. 1974) has developed an immediately recognizable visual language that investigates human action and motivation, as well as the blurred relationship between the real and the subconscious. Drawing equally from folk vernacular as from art-historical and contemporary influences, Dzama' s work visualizes a universe of childhood fantasies and otherworldly fairy tales. Leslie Jamison is the New York Times best-selling author of The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath (2018), a critical memoir; two essay collections, The Empathy Exams (2014) and Make It Scream, Make It Burn (2019); and a novel, The Gin Closet (2010). She is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and directs the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia University.
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ISBN-13: 9781644230442
Published: 20 May 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: David Zwirner Books
Publisher: David Zwirner
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 174

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