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The Quay brothers' Universum / Suzanne Buchan, Jaap Guldemond, Marente Bloemheuvel.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Amsterdam : EYE Filmmuseum, [2013].Description: 144 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9789462081277
  • 9462081271
Other title:
  • Universum
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43 QUA
Contents:
Foreword / Sandra den Hamer -- Introduction : The Quay Brothers' Universum / Jaap Guldemond -- Essay: Short circuits and footnote traces: the Quay Brothers / Suzanne Buchan -- The Quay Brothers' Film -- Affiches -- Franz Kafka -- The Quay Brothers Black drawings -- La Maison de Toone -- Figurentheatre Triangel -- Richard Teschner -- The Quay Brothers Atelier Koninck -- Wellcome Collection -- Écorchés -- Anatomy -- Phrenology -- The Quay Brothers Film -- Prinzhorn Collection -- Robert Walser -- The Quay Brothers Film -- Bruno Schulz -- Karlheinz Stockhausen -- The Quay Brothers Film -- Walerian Borowezyk -- Jan Lenica -- Alexandre Alexeieff -- Ladislav Starewicz -- Arthur Melbourne-Cooper -- The Quay Brothers Dormitorium.
Summary: Identical twins Stephen and Timothy Quay, born in Pennsylvania, better known as the Quay Brothers, are influential stop-motion animators. The Quay Brothers are internationally known for their incredibly inventive, other-worldly films that blend objects, puppets and people from real life with gloomy fantasies and haunted visions. This book presents their intriguing works as well as their sources of inspiration and fascinations. Over their careers, they developed an unmistakable aesthetic that somehow manages to inspire, confound, and often disturb their viewers. The Eye Filmmuseum is presenting a large exhibition of their work, including their animation films, set designs (which they call Dormitoriums) and works on paper, but also works from other animation filmmakers, Wunderkammer artefacts, anatomical models, Eastern European posters, drawings from the Prinzhorn Collection, scores by Karlheinz Stockhausen and other sources of their inspiration.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 791.43 QUA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100624254

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

American-born, UK-based identical twins Stephen and Timothy Quay (born 1947), better known as the Quay Brothers, are internationally celebrated for their incredibly inventive, otherworldly films that deploy objects, puppets and people in gloomy fantasies and haunted visions, creating a fetishized erotics of "stuff" in which dead matter mocks human form. Over the course of their careers, they have worked across disciplines to develop an aesthetic that manages to inspire, confound and often disturb their viewers. The Quays are also well known for the diverse cultural influences referenced throughout their films and designs, from Polish modernist poster design to antiquarians such as Athanasius Kircher, authors such as Robert Walser, Franz Kafka and Bruno Schulz, and artists such as Adolf W lfli. Published for an exhibition at the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, this Quay sourcebook presents their animated films, set designs (or "Dormitoriums," as the brothers have named them) and works on paper against the vast constellation of their influences--from Wunderkammer artifacts and anatomical models to Eastern European posters, other animation films, drawings from the famous Prinzhorn Collection, scores by Karlheinz Stockhausen and other inspirational sources.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition The Quay Brothers' Universum, held at the EYE Filmmuseum Dec. 15, 2013-Mar. 9, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references and filmography (pages 141-142).

Foreword / Sandra den Hamer -- Introduction : The Quay Brothers' Universum / Jaap Guldemond -- Essay: Short circuits and footnote traces: the Quay Brothers / Suzanne Buchan -- The Quay Brothers' Film -- Affiches -- Franz Kafka -- The Quay Brothers Black drawings -- La Maison de Toone -- Figurentheatre Triangel -- Richard Teschner -- The Quay Brothers Atelier Koninck -- Wellcome Collection -- Écorchés -- Anatomy -- Phrenology -- The Quay Brothers Film -- Prinzhorn Collection -- Robert Walser -- The Quay Brothers Film -- Bruno Schulz -- Karlheinz Stockhausen -- The Quay Brothers Film -- Walerian Borowezyk -- Jan Lenica -- Alexandre Alexeieff -- Ladislav Starewicz -- Arthur Melbourne-Cooper -- The Quay Brothers Dormitorium.

Identical twins Stephen and Timothy Quay, born in Pennsylvania, better known as the Quay Brothers, are influential stop-motion animators. The Quay Brothers are internationally known for their incredibly inventive, other-worldly films that blend objects, puppets and people from real life with gloomy fantasies and haunted visions. This book presents their intriguing works as well as their sources of inspiration and fascinations. Over their careers, they developed an unmistakable aesthetic that somehow manages to inspire, confound, and often disturb their viewers. The Eye Filmmuseum is presenting a large exhibition of their work, including their animation films, set designs (which they call Dormitoriums) and works on paper, but also works from other animation filmmakers, Wunderkammer artefacts, anatomical models, Eastern European posters, drawings from the Prinzhorn Collection, scores by Karlheinz Stockhausen and other sources of their inspiration.

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