David Lynch: Dark Splendor: dark splendor: space, images, sound - Hardcover

Werner Spies

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3775726446 ISBN 13: 9783775726443

Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2010

Synopsis

The name David Lynch initially prompts one to think of Wild at Heart, Blue Velvet,Twin Peaks , or Mulholland Drive, yet the brilliant director actually studied art and, parallel to his film career, has continued to work as a visual artist. For Lynch (*1946 in Missoula, Montana), his photographs, short films, paintings, prints, drawings, and most recently musical compositions are both an indispensable part of his oeuvre as well as a source of inspiration for his films. These works also deal with the themes that are typical for Lynch the director most notably, the abyss behind the idyllic façade of life in the suburbs. Cryptic written messages, the inclusion of organic materials and objects, and the artist s liberating sense of humor are hallmarks of his paintings, executed in dark colors. His photographs often feature sensitively perceived fallow industrial wastelands. This monograph presents Lynch s most important projects, making it a kind of synopsis in the spirit of a Gesamtkunstwerk.

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Review:

David Lynch: Dark Splendor is the companion book to the Lynch retrospective at the Max Ernst Museum in Bruhl, Germany. Essays by aficionados Werner Spies and Stefanie Diekmann illuminate the brilliance lurking behind Lynch's disquieting images.--Elizabeth Harball "THE Magazine "

About this edition

• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 3775726446
• ISBN 13: 9783775726443
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 356
• Editor: Werner Spies