Creature: Paintings, Drawings, and Reflections

ISBN: 1646142004

Author: Tan, Shaun

Condition: Used

BEST OF THE YEARThe Guardian SLJ Teen Librarian ToolboxFrom the creator of The Arrival, a collection of essays illuminating his thoughts and advice for writers and artists, young and old.Shaun Tan is one of the worlds most highly acclaimed narrative artists-his stories and images are loved by countless young and not-so-young readers around the world. Drawing upon 25 years as a picture book and comics creator, painter, and film-maker, Creature explores the central obsession of this visionary artist, from casual doodles to studied oil-paintings.Beyond sketches for acclaimed works such as The Arrival, The Lost Thing, and Tales From Outer Suburbia, this volume collects together for the first time unseen and stand-alone illustrations, each resonant with unwritten tales of their own. Detailed commentary by the artist offers an entertaining insight into the endless allure of imaginary, non-human beings and what they might tell us about our so-called normal human selves.Artists, writers, students, dreamers, and anyone interested in the deeper undercurrents of creativity, myth, and visual metaphor will find inspiration in these pages.P R A I S E"Weird and wonderful. Tan often explores the junction between adult experience and childhood memory."-The Sydney Morning Herald"A strange beast: dark, whimsical and deeply moving."-The Guardian"Like Miyazaki, Tan engages audiences across a wide range of age and sophistication."-The New York Times? Tan acts as artist, curator, interpretive essayist, and catalog editor for a gallery of over two hundred pieces of his own works that highlight a dominant theme of animate beings-some real, most invented, but all fellow travelers through our world and through our psyches.-BCCB (starred)? This gorgeously designed coffee-table survey of his picture book, comics, exhibition and sketchbook work exposes readers to a 26-year panoply of off-kilter conceptions, in all their disquieting delight. Wondrous.-Booklist (starred)