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Item Number: 127464
Title: BEPPE GIACOBBE : Visionary Dictionary: Beppe Giacobbe from A to Z
Author: Colin, Gianluigi (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788898030040
Description: Milano: Lazy Dog Press, 2013. 25cm., pbk., 288pp., more than 250 illus. English-Italia text. Summary: In this first monograph on the work of Beppe Giacobbe, the artist reminds us that “illustration is a service.” His ironic, conceptual, provocative, and ambivalent drawings are a testament to his unparalleled visual problem-solving skills. Like a film soundtrack, Giacobbe’s illustrations set the tone of a text, signaling its potential tensions, contradictions, or problems: we see an Orthodox Jew perched atop a roll of barbed wire, an astronaut carrying a bucket containing the entire universe, a sports car with snails where there would normally be wheels. With great simplicity and lightness, Beppe Giacobbe offers a worldview that invites us to reflect on the current state of things. This collection of over 250 illustrations is subdivided into key topics—alienation, hope, identity, etc.—and sorted alphabetically like a visual dictionary. The book’s user friendliness remains faithful to the concept of service, such that the reader gains a better understanding of the artist’s point of view and the origins of his figurative style, which has garnered him widespread esteem and continues to win over new fans from the up-and-coming generation.
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