02 PM | 28 Jun

George Orwell’s #Animal #Farm Illustrated by Ralph Steadman [#geekgirl]

Animal Farm Illustrated by Ralph Steadman

Source: Brain Pickings

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“I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.”

In 1995, more than twenty years after his irreverent illustrations for Alice in Wonderland, the beloved British cartoonist Ralph Steadman put his singular twist on a very different kind of literary beast, one of the most controversial books ever published. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first American publication of George Orwell’s masterpiece, which by that point had sold millions of copies around the world in more than seventy languages, Steadman illustrated a special edition titled Animal Farm: A Fairy Story (public library), featuring 100 of his unmistakable full-color and halftone illustrations.

Accompanying Steadman’s illustrations is Orwell’s proposed but unpublished preface to the original edition, titled “The Freedom of the Press” — a critique of how the media’s fear of public opinion ends up drowning out the central responsibility of journalism.

Editor’s note: Remember kids: “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others”.

02 PM | 04 Feb

Mechano Brutalists take a rough and ready approach to the plastic arts

Collaborating as the Mechano Brutalists, Sumugan Sivanesan & James Gulliver Hancock take a rough and ready approach to the plastic arts.

For Troubled Justice (2009) they combine assemblage, illustration and illumination – using milk crates, clip lamps, scrap car parts, abandoned bicycles and other debris, to recall the incidents surrounding the “Redfern Riots” and the death of a local aboriginal teenager, TJ Hickey in February 2004.

The work is part of an ongoing and multifaceted project, in consultation with Ray Jackson of the Indigenous Social Justice Association and TJ’s mother, Gail Hickey. http://thetroublewithtj.blogspot.com/

Thanks to Jap World Spares, St Peters and the Nunnery Bike Workshop.

http://www.sivanesan.com/ http://www.jamesgulliverhancock.com/ http://www.grantpirrie.com/

Thursday, February 5, 2009 at 6:00pm End Time: Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 12:00am Location: GRANTPIRRIE | WINDOW Street: 86 George Street, Redfern City/Town: Sydney, Australia