{"product_id":"jamie-hewlett-work-from-the-last-25-years-first-printing-74282","title":"Jamie Hewlett: Work from the Last 25 Years - First Printing","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a nearly Mint copy of the full-size first edition and first printing. The first printing is identified by the original multi-character cover—that quickly sold out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second printing replaced the original multi-character front cover illustration with the more familiar red front cover and put the multi-character illustration on the back. The reason for the change has never been explained....\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the publisher:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eFrom the legendary Tank Girl to live-action animations with Gorillaz, a Chinese contemporary opera to an exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery, artist Jamie Hewlett is one of the most energetic figures of contemporary pop culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eWith influences ranging from hip hop to zombie slasher movies, Hewlett emerged in the mid-1990s as co-creator of the zeitgeist-defining Tank Girl comic. With then-roommate Damon Albarn, he went on to create the unique cartoon band Gorillaz, a virtual pop group of animated characters, who have recorded five albums and mounted breathtaking live spectacles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eSince then, Hewlett has continued to collaborate with Albarn on projects including an elaborate staging of the Chinese novel Monkey: Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en, complete with circus acrobats, Shaolin monks, and Chinese singers. In 2006, he was named \"Designer of the Year\" by the Design Museum in London, and in 2009, Hewlett and Albarn won a BAFTA for their animated Monkey sequence for the Beijing Olympic Games. More recently, The Suggestionists, an exhibition of prints at the Saatchi Gallery in London, demonstrated an exciting new direction in Hewlett's practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eThis TASCHEN edition, Hewlett's first major monograph, illustrates his thrilling creative journey with more than 400 artworks from the Tank Girl era through Gorillaz and up to the present day. Through stories, characters, strips, and sketches, we trace Hewlett's exceptional capacity for invention and celebrate a polymath artist who refuses to rest on his laurels, or to be pigeonholed into a particular practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eText in English, German, and French.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taschen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52879155265834,"sku":"74282","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/2879\/4922\/files\/FFA21D1D-13A8-4AD8-B852-048C82C65515.jpg?v=1791503899","url":"https:\/\/stuartngbooks.com\/products\/jamie-hewlett-work-from-the-last-25-years-first-printing-74282","provider":"Stuart Ng Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}