出版社: Laurence King Publishing (2016年9月10日)

丛书名: An Elephant Book

精装: 272页

语种： 英语

ISBN: 1780678533

条形码: 9781780678535

商品尺寸: 19.7 x 3.2 x 26.7 cm

呈现当代艺术家插画以简单的工具，像彩笔，蜡笔，水彩，剪刀和胶水创作出来的非常引人注目的图片。用这种方式进行创作代表着对视觉艺术的一种反潮流。通过对五十多个艺术家的采访，本书关注着这些特殊的艺术家们如何以及为何找到这些简单工具之间的联系，从而让他们的创作那么迷人。

对于创造者和观察者而言要把把那些精心设计甚至是当代那些晦涩难懂的理论分流成简单的理念似乎都有一种特殊的压力。这本书根据艺术家创作的技艺分类，从彩笔到钢笔，从陶瓷到多媒体，有一些艺术家用数字技术混合这些工具。最后创造出这些让人不自觉搞到有趣的图片。

Artless presents some of the most compelling images created by contemporary artists and illustrators using the simplest of tools, such as colour pencils, crayons, watercolour, scissors and glue. Work produced in this manner represents a growing and particularly resilient trend in the visual arts world. Through individual interviews with over 50 artists, Artless looks at how and why these particular artists find the intimate connection between the unassuming tools they use and the art thus created so enthralling. For creator and viewer alike there seems to be a particular kind of pleasure to be had in short-circuiting the sophisticated and often elusive strategies of contemporary art in favour of something disarmingly uncomplicated.

Marc Valli is the founder of the retail and book-selling company Magma as well as the magazines Graphic and Elephant. His books include Walk the Line, Microworlds, and A Brush with the Real: Figurative Painting Today. Amandas Ong is a social anthropologist, occasional art writer, and was previously web editor of Elephant.