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Kid A Mnesia: A Book of Radiohead Artwork

Hardback

Main Details

Title Kid A Mnesia: A Book of Radiohead Artwork
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Thom Yorke
By (author) Stanley Donwood
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:364
Dimensions(mm): Height 248,Width 197
Category/GenreRock and Pop
Bands, groups and musicians
ISBN/Barcode 9781838857370
ClassificationsDewey:741.66
Audience
General
Edition Main
Illustrations full colour throughout; Illustrations, unspecified; full colour throughout; Illustrations, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Canongate Books
Imprint Canongate Books
Publication Date 11 November 2021
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Whilst these records were being conceived, rehearsed, recorded and produced, Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood made hundreds of images. These ranged from obsessive, insomniac scrawls in biro to six-foot-square painted canvases, from scissors-and-glue collages to immense digital landscapes. They utilised every medium they could find, from sticks and knives to the emerging digital technologies. The work chronicles their obsessions at the time: minotaurs, genocide, maps, globalisation, monsters, pylons, dams, volcanoes, locusts, lightning, helicopters, Hiroshima, show homes and ring roads. What emerges is a deeply strange portrait of the years at the commencement of this century. A time that seems an age ago - but so much remains the same.

Author Biography

Thom Yorke is a musician, composer and artist, best known as the lead vocalist and songwriter of the band Radiohead. Stanley Donwood is a graphic designer, artist and writer. He has published three collections of stories and has worked with Radiohead since 1994, producing all the artwork for their albums and promotional materials.

Reviews

A celebration of the ideas, both written and drawn, that were behind the creation of the Radiohead albums Kid A and Amnesiac . . . Includes faxes, notes, scribblings and sketches that musician Yorke and artist Donwood exchanged in the run-up to the creation of two iconic albums * * Independent * * The themes they [explore] (global warming, government surveillance, the corrosive power of the internet) are still strikingly relevant * * Scotsman * * These companion art books show the depth of Radiohead singer Thom Yorke and visual artist Stanley Donwood's decades-long creative partnership . . . Filled with rare artwork, early drafts, poetry and even a glossary to many of their inspirations, these works shed light on some of their more cryptic mysteries, while folding in new shadows to consider * * Variety * *