Ganzfeld # 2, The
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
Comics aren't just for kids, and illustrations don't merely transpose text into image. Picture stories can do more than just tell a simple, illiterate narrative, and design, well, design infiltrates the visual aspects of nearly everything that surrounds us. If these statements seems like truisms, they are, but they were hardly obvious conclusions just a few years ago, before the arts once considered merely commercial exploded into the mainstream. Unlike any other publication, the Ganzfeld gathers together a diverse sampling of recent design, illustration, and comics, together with essays that place them in a historical and critical context. Better still, this volume includes the first publication of comics genius Chris Ware's color sketchbooks; endpapers designed by "nest" editor Joseph Holtzman, covers by the Beastie Boys and GAP designer Mike Mills; an illustrated story by Maira Kalman; wallpaper designs by a cartoonist, a fine artist, an illustrator, and a designer; visual reportage on the Venice Biennale by Paul Davis; and far too much more to mention here. I hate this issue of "The Ganzfeld", but that's only because it's really great and I'm not in it. Rats. But certainly don't let that deter you from buying it. --Chip Kidd These are communiqués from some of the best storytellers in any medium. --Chee Pearlman, former editor-in-chief of "I.D." The Ganzfeld is the most compelling and intelligent collection of visual stories I've seen since RAW. --Stefan Sagmeister
Edited by Daniel Nadel & Peter Buchanan Smith. Artists include: Edward Fella, Steven Guarnaccia, Red Grooms, Steven Heller, Maira Kalman, Gary Panter, Richard McGuire, Chris Ware.
10 x 8.5 in.
80 color, 96 b/w illustrations
Ganzfeld # 2, The,Daniel Nadel,Peter Buchanan-Smith,Monday Morning Books,0971367000,Art,Art & Art Instruction,Commercial - Illustration,Criticism,Design - General,Techniques - Cartooning,Design,General
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