The Mammoth Book Of Skulls: Exploring the Icon – from Fashion to Street Art - Rilegato

ILYA

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ISBN 10: 1472111508 ISBN 13: 9781472111500

Casa editrice: Robinson, 2014

Riassunto

Skulls have always captured the human imagination. This extraordinary collection of the most engaging and intriguing images of the skull from pop culture around the world, presents a visual feast of the ultimate doom-laden image.

Here you will find the skull in graphic novels, manga, graphic design, art, costume, make-up, vintage advertising and popular culture, along with the just plain weird.

Page after page of stunning photographs reveal an incredible diversity of interpretations of the iconic image.

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Descrizione del libro:

A visual feast of the skull motif in music, illustration, graphic novels and manga, design, movies,
art, cult, costume, make-up, vintage advertising and popular culture, alongside the just plain
weird

L'autore:

Ed Hillyer - also known as ILYA - is a British writer and artist. His books include the award-winning graphic novel series The End of the Century Club, an entry in noir anthology It's Dark in London, a daring adaptation of King Lear (2009, Manga Shakespeare series) and, most recently, the graphic novel Room for Love (2013), for SelfMade Hero. Illustration clients include the BBC, the Royal Academy of Arts, andThe Times and Guardian newspapers.

Hillyer has edited three volumes of The Mammoth Book of BEST NEW MANGA (2006, 2007, 2008), curating a host of international talent. He also designs and tutors workshops and courses on the art of comics and manga for colleges, galleries, libraries, schools and prisons, across the UK as well as abroad.

The Clay Dreaming (2010), his debut prose novel, was selected as one of Waterstones's New Voices for 2010. Hillyer has also visited Indonesia with the British Council and been a guest of the Sharjah International Book Fair.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Robinson
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1472111508
• ISBN 13: 9781472111500
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 448