David Shrigley - Böcker

Now in paperback: Get Your Sh*t Together is the first book that exclusively features recent artwork in color by beloved British artist David Shrigley.Celebrating Shrigley's absurd, deadpan sensibility through both his signature drawing style and accompanying text, this art book is an ideal addition to any bookshelf or coffee table for those who appreciate wry, sardonic humor, and distinct, artistic brilliance by one of our most prolific and unique artists. Organized by chapters with titles such as Stupid, Nonsense, Dirt, Fear, Paranoia, Love, and Self Delusion, this collection is sure to delight die-hard Shrigley fans and new ones alike. This is the first full-color book to date on Shrigley's prolific work, curated from his abundant archive. It features over 200 original works of art and handwritten, humorous essays throughout. It also includes a custom, detachable bookmark with the quote, “IT WON’T BE LIKE THIS FOREVER.” The layouts in Get Your Sh*t Together pair distinctive individual pieces of artwork, forming quirky and unexpected relationships between each facing page. Irony, satire, playfulness, sarcasm, and even downright positivity all exist within the realm of Shrigley’s imagination and philosophy, and all are on display here. This is no ordinary monograph, but instead, it is a clever, colorful, and exuberant celebration of Shrigley’s singular sensibility and unique aesthetic that juxtaposes text and image provocatively and irresistibly.

How are you feeling? Are you alright?If you could open your mind like a handbag and show us what was inside, what would we see?A bit of a mess?Don't worry. This is a self-help book.You'll feel better very soon.

A personal message from the author: Lots of individuals in society today are feeble-minded. They don't know what the HELL is going on. Unfortunately many of these people are responsible for running THE COUNTRY. They don't know the difference between a PRECIOUS JEWEL and a piece of animal turd. Their ideas are MEANINGLESS, illustrated using RUBBISH imagery (often made by a computer). The stupid words they write are always in BAD FONTS. Yet still people HEED this nonsense. Maybe YOU are one of these people?It's alright. I am here to HELP you. I have a FULLY-COMPOSED WORLD VIEW. I have STRONG opinions about EVERYTHING. And my ideas are HAND-ILLUSTRATED and use REAL HANDWRITING that you can trust. I know exactly what's going on and am WILLING to share my thoughts with you. If you LISTEN to what I say then things will quickly improve.No more weak messages. No more bad situations. Shall we proceed?

CLOSE YOUR EYESI invite you to imagine a plan for a new and better society where everything is very coherent and makes a lot of sense and nothing is confusing or awfulOPEN YOUR EYESNo need to imagine. Here is the plan. The plan is illustrated. The plan is quite complicated. But not too complicated. I think you will be thrilled by it. I am certain you will be thrilled by it.No need to read massive volumes or use the internetJUST READ THISONLY THIS

Get Your Shit Together is the first book that exclusively features recent artwork in color by beloved British artist David Shrigley. This volume celebrates Shrigley’s absurd, deadpan sensibility through both his signature drawing style and accompanying text. Organized by chapters with titles such as Stupid, Nonsense, Dirt, Fear, Paranoia, Love, and Self Delusion, this collection is sure to delight die-hard Shrigley fans and new ones alike. This is the largest-format book to date on Shrigley’s prolific work, and features design details such as a ribbon marker with one of his mordant sayings printed on it, as well as hand-written, humorous essays throughout.

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.