"Bats, nurses, Marlene Dietrich, a malevolent figure in a bear suit, two cowboys playing king-of-the-mountain on a rosebush, a group of men placidly eating babies at a makeshift picnic table, while, above them, a tree grows more babies: Marcel Dzama is back. As readers will learn in The Course of Human History Personified, he's a sleepwalker, a sleepdrawer--""I draw during the day, but the ideas come at night."" He records his visions in a bedside-table notebook. The finished work, in ink and watercolor, in a limited color scheme, against empty backgrounds, stripped of narrative context, offers many possible interpretations. Its cast of characters is expansive and in each drawing their roles become more complex and defined. Dzama's influences include Blake, Goya, Botticelli, and James Ensor and his sources encompass native mythology, Inuit art, Dante's Divine Comedy, medieval paintings and American folklore. The title, The Course of Human History Personified, is borrowed from Dante and recalls the grandiose artistic and literary cycles of the nineteenth century such as Thomas Cole's 1836 The Course of Empire, where nature plays as large a role as humans. Here nature is personified--imagined characters and trees and beasts assume base human characteristics. If it's a dark view of the world, it's also an entrancing one."

Marcel Dzama - Moving Picture

Arts & Photography

Marcel Dzama

History & Criticism

Timothy Taylor

Short stories by eight authors Drawings by twenty-seven artists

J&L Illustrated #1

Comics & Graphic Novels

David Shrigley

Craig Taylor

Jeff Johnson

Hunter Kennedy

MARK, RICHARD

Sam Lipsyte

Adam Gilders

Morwyn Brebner

Hudson Bell

How To Create Comics & Manga

J&L Books

From publisher's website: Dzama / Pettibon is a collaborative zine between Marcel Dzama and Raymond Pettibon, originally published to coincide with Printed Matter's 2015 New York Art Book Fair. Raymond Pettibon has been making zines since he graduated from UCLA in the late seventies, but he has rarely collaborated as he did with Marcel Dzama on Dzama / Pettibon. After meeting at David Zwirner Books in late July 2015 to discuss possible projects, the two artists began to embark on their shared endeavor-something that would develop into an exceptionally beautiful, exquisite corpse-inspired form. Pettibon and Dzama traded drawings and spent the rest of the summer reworking each other's pieces-illustrating, collaging, accentuating, and writing-to make a brand new body of collaborative work. In September, the unique pieces arrived back at David Zwirner Books where they were photographed and arranged in zine form in close collaboration with both artists. The first printing, which was produced digital offset in an edition of 200 numbered copies, sold out within a day at the New York Art Book Fair. Dzama / Pettibon is reprinted on the occasion of the artists' exhibition of collaborative works Forgetting the Hand at David Zwirner in New York. This revised and expanded edition includes nearly twenty additional works made since their New York Art Book Fair collaboration, as well as a new text by the poet Andrew Durbin.

Dzama/Pettibon

Raymond Pettibon

David Zwirner Books

Mimicking the aesthetics and texture of the famed Moleskin sketchbooks that artists have used for decades to hash out their ideas, Armpit of the Mole may very well become your new favorite drawing compilation. Forty-four artists have contributed six pages each to this book to present here their research of ideas or their depictions of various universes. Here Marcel Dzama brushes up against Michelle Naismuth, and Wim Delvoye and later blends into Florian &amp; Michael Quistrebert, who lead to Thierry Agnone. The styles differ from distant to confrontational, formal to narrative, obsessional to nonchalant, and controversial to bucolic. Flipping through Armpit of the Mole, it feels as though someone tore pieces out of each artist's sketchbook and bound them all together. Yet, the collection of images is thought out and designed like a succession of varied and original works that are different yet connected--much like a good DJ set. Edited by Michael Quistrebert. Paperback, 6.5 x 9.25 in./288 pgs / 191 color and 75 b&amp;w.

Armpit of the Mole: Your New Favorite Drawings Compilation

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Fondation 30 Km/s C

The Canadian art group the Royal Art Lodge, currently made upof Marcel Dzama, Neil Farber, and Michael Dumontier, used Farber'sdining room table to create the 160 tiny (7.6cm x 8.9 cm) paintingson wood featured in this book. The deliberately crude, almost comicbook-like pictures, typical of this groundbreaking collective, includevague and puzzling epigrams, exploring the dreamy and melancholicthoughts we have about women and children-the fears, the sadness,and the desire to protect both. A powerful essay by Guido Bartorelliexamines how The Royal Art Lodge exemplifies what Marshall McLuhancalled -low-definition- media-and how fitting its approach and affectare in this technological age.

The Royal Art Lodge: Women and Children

Neil Farber

Michael Dumontier

Ram Distribution

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