Bad Island est un roman graphique sans mots illustré de 80 planches en lithographie de l'artiste Stanley Donwood, connu principalement pour sa collaboration artistique durable avec le groupe Radiohead. Planche par planche le lecteur est imergé dans une parabole qui rend d'abord hommage à la nature primaire d'une île déserte pour ensuite raconter l'industrialisation et la ruine de cet univers parfait. La thématique environnementale est centrale dans cette oeuvre qui témoigne des préoccupations de son artiste.
Personnage inquiet et prolifique, Stanley Donwood est largement considéré comme l'un des artistes visuels les plus importants de sa génération. Son travail influent pour Radiohead couvre de nombreuses pratiques et une esthétique en constante évolution sur une période de 23 ans, allant du packaging de musique aux installations en passant par l'impression. Pour la première fois, il dévoile ses cahiers personnels, ses photographies, ses croquis et ses routes abandonnées vers les oeuvres emblématiques de Radiohead. Classés par ordre chronologique, les chapitres sont chacun consacrés à une oeuvre majeure - qu'il s'agisse d'une couverture d'album, d'une pièce promotionnelle ou d'un projet personne.
In which the writings of the authors Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood are gathered together. This commonplace book includes faxes, notes, fledgling lyrics, sketches, lists of all kinds and scribblings towards nirvana, as were sent between the two authors during the period 1999 to 2000 during the creation of the Radiohead albums Kid A and Amnesiac . This is a document of the creative process and a mirror to the fears, portents and fantasies invoked by the world as its citizens faced a brave new millennium.
From cult graphic designer and long-time Radiohead collaborator Stanley Donwood comes a starkly beautiful graphic novel about the end of the world. A wild seascape, a distant island, a full moon. Gradually the island grows nearer until we land on a primeval wilderness, rich in vegetation and huge, strange beasts. Time passes and man appears, with clubs, with spears, with crueller weapons still - and things do not go well for the wilderness. Civilisation rises as towers of stone and metal and smoke, choking the undergrowth and the creatures that once moved through it. This is not a happy story and it will not have a happy ending. Working in his distinctive, monochromatic linocut style, Stanley Donwood carves out a mesmerising, stark parable on environmentalism and the history of humankind. Praise for Stanley Donwood: 'I've read lots of his stuff and it's always good and I am in no way biased' Thom Yorke, lead singer of Radiohead
Robert Macfarlane (Author) Robert Macfarlane is the author of Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places, The Old Ways, Landmarks, and The Lost Words , co-created with Jackie Morris . Mountains of the Mind won the Guardian First Book Award and the Somerset Maugham Award and The Wild Places won the Boardman-Tasker Award. Both books have been adapted for television by the BBC. The Lost Words won the Books Are My Bag Beautiful Book Award and the Hay Festival Book of the Year. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and writes on environmentalism, literature and travel for publications including the Guardian , the Sunday Times and The New York Times . Stanley Donwood (Illustrator) Stanley Donwood is a graphic designer, artist and writer. He has worked with the British band Radiohead since 1994, producing the artwork for all their albums and promotional materials. He is also the author of numerous books including Catacombs of Terror!, Slowly Downward and Small Thoughts. His next book, Bad Island , will be published in 2019.
