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Bastokalypse /

By: Contributor(s): Language: German, English, French Publication details: Zürich : Scheidegger & Spiess, 2010.Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9783858812964
  • 385881296X
Other title:
  • Basto kalypse
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: This volume represents the culmination of a decade-long collaboration between two Swiss graphic artists, M. S. Bastian and Isabelle L. It produces the thirty-two large black-and-white canvases of their graphic sequence of the same name. Together the panels tell a story of apocalypse and the end of the world that amalgamates images inspired by a wide range of eras and art examples, including medieval Tuscan mosaics, renaissance panels, baroque engravings, Meiji-era Japanese prints, and contemporary graphic novels. The thirty-two parts of this 13 metre long painting are gathered in a concertina folder with an essay on apocalyptic motifs by art critic Konrad Tobler printed on the verso.
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This volume represents the culmination of a decade-long collaboration between two Swiss graphic artists, M. S. Bastian and Isabelle L. It produces the thirty-two large black-and-white canvases of their graphic sequence of the same name. Together the panels tell a story of apocalypse and the end of the world that amalgamates images inspired by a wide range of eras and art examples, including medieval Tuscan mosaics, renaissance panels, baroque engravings, Meiji-era Japanese prints, and contemporary graphic novels. The thirty-two parts of this 13 metre long painting are gathered in a concertina folder with an essay on apocalyptic motifs by art critic Konrad Tobler printed on the verso.

Text in German English and French.

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