Name: Gas Tank City
SKU: 57287718
Price: 81.65 EUR
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Author: Mark Fisher

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English

Pages

208

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Hardcover

ISBN13

9781911422471

Synopsis "Gas Tank City"

- Andrew Holmes is renowned for his hyper-real drawings of gleaming trucks, and the service infrastructure that sustains the city of Los Angeles- Holmes has made it his life's work to capture scenes from this uniquely American landscape in a series of drawings that now evoke a lost civilization- Gas Tank City presents all 100 of Holmes's Los Angeles drawings, created over the past 50 years - an astonishing body of work- With commentaries by art historian Thomas E Crow, architects Mark Fisher and Cedric Price, and Holmes himselfAndrew Holmes is renowned for his hyper-real colored pencil drawings. His subject matter is the fixed and mobile service infrastructure that sustains the city of Los Angeles. The gleaming trucks, automobiles, and motorcycles that traverse the highways, and the industrial armature of storage tanks, service stations and truck stops to be found beyond the city's edge are, for Holmes, the greatest artifacts of a society based on oil. Over the past 50 years, he has captured scenes from this uniquely American landscape in painstaking detail. Together they evoke a lost civilization. Gas Tank City presents 100 of Holmes's Los Angeles drawings, along with commentaries by art historian, Thomas E Crow, architects Mark Fisher and Cedric Price, and Holmes himself.

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Mark Fisher (1968-2017) became known as a cultural critic thanks to K-Punk, a pioneering blog in the early years of the internet where he wrote extensive articles on music, contemporary philosophy, political analysis, science fiction, and cinema. Later, he began publishing in prestigious magazines and newspapers such as The Guardian, The Wire, or frieze. He is the author of the books Capitalist Realism, published in Spanish by Caja Negra, and Ghosts of my Life, a selection of essays on impossible futures, depression, and the cultural perception of memory.

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