Librarian's Note: this is the first 1997 edition: with - ISBN 10: 1873968442
Red laminated cloth-covered boards with title and graphics debossed on cover and stamped in black on spine; with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Mixed-media works and text by Damien Hirst. Essays by Gordon Burn and Stuart Morgan. Includes a biography, bibliography, list of illustrations and a poster. Designed by Jonathan Barnbrook. 334 pp., with numerous gatefolds, pop-ups and inserts, with over 700 illustrations. 13-3/4 x 11-5/8 inches.
From the publisher: "This publication -- Hirst's first -- is the artist's beguiling statement of his ideas and obsessions in life and art to date. Expressed in his own words, and illustrated by his own selection of over 700 images, pop-ups and special inserts, [it] encompasses the entire range of his work -- paintings, sculptures, installations and films. In this book, Hirst has created an iconoclastic work that challenges the boundaries of art, science, media and popular culture."
Darte cuenta que absorbemos y percibimos gran parte del mundo por un par de masas carnosas, suaves, frágiles y gelatinosas que son los ojos, esa pesada sensación de claustrofobia como dice Hirst...lo mismo que buscan todos los artistas: el trascender, la única manera de vivir eternamente.
Ese sentimiento pesado y constante de tener a la muerte desinfectada, inerte, pulcra e industrial a un lado permea los textos. Drogas, vida y religión. Hermoso diseño que se sale del cajón, como el mismo artista con su arte.
there's all kinds of things to pull out and turn and interact with in this book. it's like those activity toys for babies with images of dissected cows and cigarette butts instead.