Bill Morrison – illustratör

Operatic in scope, ULULU (Clown Shrapnel) is a dramatic, genre-bending narrative and a lyrical cultural biography of the archetypal seductress Lulu. In a furious performance of text and imagery, Thalia Field introduces us to the stock characters of the commedia, the famous plays, operas, and silent films in which Lulu appeared, the artists who brought her to life, and the censorship and controversy that she engendered.The myth of “Lulu” began during the height of late-nineteenth-century Viennese culture with a sequence of two plays by Frank Wedekind (Earth Spirit and Pandora’s Box), and continued through the two world wars with Lulu, an unfinished opera by Alban Berg, and Pandora’s Box, a highly acclaimed film by G.W. Pabst, starring Louise Brooks. Throughout all of Lulu’s incarnations she met with censure—Wedekind’s plays were banned from the stage, Berg’s opera, which contained a secret score for his young lover, was kept from the public by his widow, and Pabst’s erotic film was too risqué for many.As Field’s story peeks into the dressing rooms and back alleys of history, words take the stage, “fictional” and “historical” characters speak side by side, and lyrical symbolism undulates throughout the pages. Original and treated footage from award-winning filmmaker Bill Morrison and illustrations from artist Abbot Stranahan complete this masterful work of avant-garde fiction, presented in a numbered and signed first edition limited to 1,500 copies.In addition to her multimedia performance work, Thalia Field, an assistant professor at Brown University, is the author of Point and Line and Incarnate: Story Material.

Begleiten wir die Beatles auf ihrer Reise nach Pepperland, wo John, Paul, George und Ringo dafür kämpfen, dass das Land von dem musikhassenden Tyrannen Eure Bläuheit und seiner Truppe aus Blaumiesen-Soldaten, Clowns, Wummsern und einem fliegenden Handschuh befreit wird. Zum 50. Jubiläum des Beatles-Films Yellow Submarine hat (Simpsons-Zeichner) Bill Morrison eine wunderschön gezeichnete Farbadaption des berühmten Zeichentrick-Meisterwerks erschaffen. Gehen wir an Bord des gelben Unterseeboots und fahren in das überirdische Paradies, in dem die Menschen ein Leben in Frieden und Harmonie führen, erfüllt von so schönen Dinge wie Musik, Freude und Liebe.