Receive Your Copy Flogging A Dead Horse: The Life And Works Of Jake And Dinos Chapman Narrated By Jake Chapman File Format Volume

mooiste, grappigste en meest geile kunstboek sinds ooit en daarvoor, I liked some of the ideas in here, too bad the artists seemed like genuine assholes, Engaging, playful and somewhat vapid I find the creative energy inspiring but the pseudophilosophy behind it disappointing It is a strange thing about contemporary art that instead of helping us understand our world and ourselves, instead of clarifying things, if not logically, then perhaps emotionally, that most artists seem to be attempting exactly the opposite.
It appears at times as if Yves Klein and Mark Rothko and Matthew Barney are manning the drawbridge of the ivory tower, waiting sphinxlike before their inscrutable canvases and video installations to screech jargon designed to frighten off anyone without a BFA.

Jake and Dinos Chapman can sling highbrow artbabble with the best of them, and they're definitely not making friends with the common man by abandoning irony for earnest, bittersweet portraiture or something.
Most of the time, the meaning is either nonexistent or buried under so many layers of irony and intentional misdirection it might as well not exist.
In their work 'Black Nazissus', the mythical Narcissus is recast as a black kid with an afro in an Hitler Youth uniform, The lifesize mannequin stares into

a bloody pool, but instead of his reflection he finds a dead white face, Around him is scattered the bones and viscera of a recent massacre, This disturbing tableaux, like several others with related themes, takes place atop of six feet of soil littered with the skeletal remains of hundreds of nameless victims.
As is the case with most of the Chapman 'Zygotes', The young man's face has a penis and a rectum in place of his nose and mouth.

The Chapman brothers are vaguely misanthropic in their attitudes, and are blatantly unconcerned with making work that is easy or even accessible, . . they make art designed for a small audience, namely themselves and whatever like minds find a way into their world,
While they are by no means populists, they share little kinship with the rest of the 'Young British Artists'
like Damian Hirst and Tracey Emin the Chapman Brothers were part of the group championed by supercollector Charles Saatchi in the early nineties.

This book is a beautiful midcareer retrospective featuring some of the ugliest and most fascinating art being made today, . . and like most of my favorite artists, it is not easy, It is not 'anti' or 'pro' establishment, The best contemporary art asks questions, provokes us for a response, 'Hell', a diorama of toysize figures in a massive, nightmare holocaust that is, along with its sequel and related projects, one of the few masterpieces of the new millennium, is given the detailed scrutiny it deserves, as are most of the Chapman's best works.

The book design is brilliant, a monochromatic wraparound cover with a thick slipcase diecut to match the inner cover, The definitive monograph, collecting twenty years of work by two iconoclastic and subversive contemporary British artists, Jake and Dinos Chapmans work has come to define the spirit and impact of a generation of contemporary artists we know as the YBAs.
Taking many forms across many mediums, from major installations to miniature sculpture, from etchings and drawings to films and performances, their work together and individually examines contemporary politics and morality with characteristic irreverence and profoundly caustic humor.

Edited by the artists themselves, Flogging a Dead Horse is the most definitive monograph on the brothers work to date, With more thanreproductions of every major piece recorded in their career, the book captures the extraordinary detail of their celebrated dioramas, collects a vast archive of etchings, drawings, and watercolors, and draws on photographs of larger installations and exhibitions to present a comprehensive survey of twenty years of workand to illuminate the monumental effort behind their projects.

Designed by the Chapmans longtime collaborators Fuel, and with original cover and slipcase art made for the project by Dinos Chapman, this book will stand as a collectible object in its own right.
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