Jan Schmelcher: The Duarte Files - Couverture rigide

 
9783868287547: Jan Schmelcher: The Duarte Files
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ISBN 10 : 386828754X ISBN 13 : 9783868287547
Editeur : Kehrer Verlag, 2016

Synopsis

A world defined by shadow economy, exoticism, and mystery opens up in the laconic, unconventional drawings and the accompanying fragmentary short texts. Shady deals, absurd life stories, changing identities are hinted at. The protagonists: obscure poets, alligator famers, journalists in exile, wind-surfing mafiosi, businesswomen in the service of the Vatican Bank, elegant men who avoid daylight. And that is just the start of the story. In his drawings, Jan Schmelcher plays a cool, comical game with our fascination with the outsider, with scandal, with unexposed crimes. At the same time, the fact that the individual characters have the effect of prototypes of a milieu study of the demimonde and recall Sixties and Seventies movies constitutes this book’s charm and nostalgic magic.
The drawings are accompanied in this book by a short story by Brendan Embser Wattenberg. Applying an ironic, elliptical narrative technique, the author further draws out a narrative thread from The Duarte Files and combines it with a grotesque, fictional artist’s biography.

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A world defined by shadow economy, exoticism, and mystery opens up in the laconic, unconventional drawings and the accompanying fragmentary short texts. Shady deals, absurd life stories, changing identities are hinted at. The protagonists: obscure poets, alligator famers, journalists in exile, wind-surfing mafiosi, businesswomen in the service of the Vatican Bank, elegant men who avoid daylight. And that is just the start of the story. In his drawings, Jan Schmelcher plays a cool, comical game with our fascination with the outsider, with scandal, with unexposed crimes. At the same time, the fact that the individual characters have the effect of prototypes of a milieu study of the demimonde and recall Sixties and Seventies movies constitutes this book’s charm and nostalgic magic.
The drawings are accompanied in this book by a short story by Brendan Embser Wattenberg. Applying an ironic, elliptical narrative technique, the author further draws out a narrative thread from The Duarte Files and combines it with a grotesque, fictional artist’s biography.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Kehrer Verlag
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
multilingue
ISBN 10 
386828754X
ISBN 13 
9783868287547
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
96
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible