Creature: Paintings, Drawings, and Reflections

Product Code: 68017
Creature: Paintings, Drawings, and Reflections
Creature: Paintings, Drawings, and Reflections
Creature: Paintings, Drawings, and Reflections
Creature: Paintings, Drawings, and Reflections
Creature: Paintings, Drawings, and Reflections

Creature: Paintings, Drawings, and Reflections

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From the creator of The Arrival, a collection of essays illuminating his thoughts and advice for writers and artists, young and old.

From the publisher:

Top Ten Finalist, Locus Award for Illustrated and Art Books

Shaun Tan is one of the world's most highly acclaimed narrative artists--his stories and images are loved by countless young and not-so-young readers around the world. Drawing upon 25 years as a picture book and comics creator, painter, and film-maker, Creature explores the central obsession of this visionary artist, from casual doodles to studied oil-paintings.

Beyond sketches for acclaimed works such as The Arrival, The Lost Thing, and Tales From Outer Suburbia, this volume collects together for the first time unseen and stand-alone illustrations, each resonant with unwritten tales of their own. Detailed commentary by the artist offers an entertaining insight into the endless allure of imaginary, non-human beings and what they might tell us about our so-called "normal" human selves.

Artists, writers, students, dreamers, and anyone interested in the deeper undercurrents of creativity, myth, and visual metaphor will find inspiration in these pages.

"Tan acts as artist, curator, interpretive essayist, and catalog editor for a gallery of over two hundred pieces of his own works that highlight a dominant theme of animate beings—some real, most invented, but all fellow travelers through our world and through our psyches." --BCCB (starred)

This gorgeously designed coffee-table survey of his picture book, comics, exhibition and sketchbook work exposes readers to a 26-year panoply of off-kilter conceptions, in all their disquieting delight. Wondrous." --Booklist (starred)

Tan, Shaun

Condition & Attributes

Very Fine in Very Fine dustjacket

Publishing Information

Montclair, NJ
Levine Querido
2022
9781646142002

Physical Description

11.4 inches
9.75 inches
224 pages
color and black & white illustrations throughout
Hardcover
pictorial boards
English

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