What The Hell Are You Doing The Essential David Shrigley

Author: David Shrigley

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Price : $35.00 AUD
ISBN : 9781847678638
Publisher : Canongate Books Ltd
Imprint : Canongate Books Ltd
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Weight (g) : 0.68
Publication date : 01 November 2011
Dimensions : 196mm X 152mm X 33mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
RRP : 35.0
Availability date : 01 July 2012
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Author : David Shrigley
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Edition : 712
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Dewey classification : 709.2
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Pages : 352
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Illustrations : all Illustrations (chiefly col.)
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Description

A beautifully designed and darkly comic collection of work, this book gathers together the best of Shrigley's work, old and new. It is a celebration of the surreal world of one of our finest contemporary artists.

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The definitive collection of the work of cult artist David Shrigley

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A brilliant new volume - Scotland on Sunday

Author description

David Shrigley was born in Macclesfield in 1968 and studied at Glasgow School of Art. He has worked as a sculptor, photographer and 'environment artist' and, most famously, as a cartoonist and illustrator. His work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern in London, at the MoMA in New York, and in Paris, Berlin, Melbourne and beyond. He has published over twenty books, and has animated a music video for Blur and produced another for Bonny Prince Billy. His work has also been profiled in a documentary for Channel 4 and he was recently invited to hold a major, four-month retrospective at the Hayward Gallery in London. He lives and works in Glasgow.

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