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PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 12 x 9.75 in. / 352 pgs / 346 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2010 p. 46   

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ISBN 9783775726443 TRADE
List Price: $85.00 CAD $100.00

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HATJE CANTZ

David Lynch: Dark Splendor

Text by Werner Spies, Peter-Klaus Schuster, Dietmar Dath, Thomas W. Gaethgens.

David Lynch: Dark SplendorParallel to the film career for which he is justly admired, David Lynch (born 1946) has always worked as an artist, having trained in painting at the Corcoran School of Art and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in the mid-1960s. Lynch's photographs, paintings, prints, drawings, and more recently, musical compositions, are an indispensable part of his oeuvre and frequently a source of inspiration for his films. Fans of such classics as Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive will readily conjure the director's keen eye for lush but menacing neo-Surrealist tableaux, for instance, which are directly nourished by his artworks. Other hallmarks of the Lynchian style, such as cryptic messages and inscriptions, foreboding atmospherics and a famously left-field sense of humor likewise appear in the paintings, drawings and photographs collected in David Lynch: Dark Splendor--a landmark publication that reveals the breadth and accomplishment of his work in this realm. It contains such marvels as his matchbook drawings--pen-and-ink images of shrouded dreamscapes and interiors, inscribed on the inside of matchbooks--his wonderfully foreboding lithographs, in which scrawled captions jostle among murky figures, his photographs of industrial wastelands and his sinister paintings that incorporate materials and objects to further advance their gothic appeal. Dark Splendor presents these works in excellent reproductions, and will seduce fans of contemporary film and art alike.

Featured image, Human Being, 2007, is reproduced from David Lynch: Dark Splendor.

PRAISE AND REVIEWS

THE Magazine

Elizabeth Harball

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.

David Lynch: Dark Splendor

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FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

ALEX GALAN | DATE 8/23/2010

David Lynch at Book Soup, L.A.

David Lynch at Book Soup, L.A.

David Lynch signing copies of his new monograph Dark Splendor, published by art and photo book publisher Hatje Cantz, at L.A.'s Book Soup. continue to blog


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