Kid a Mnesia: A Book of Radiohead Artwork (Main)

Thom Yorke

Book cover for Kid a Mnesia: A Book of Radiohead Artwork (Main)
Book cover for Kid a Mnesia: A Book of Radiohead Artwork (Main)

Kid a Mnesia: A Book of Radiohead Artwork (Main)

Kid a Mnesia: A Book of Radiohead Artwork (Main)

Thom Yorke

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Description

A celebration of the Radiohead albums Kid A and Amnesiac, this book showcases more than 300 color artworks. It features a dialogue between Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood about the creative process and a specially commissioned essay, Kid Alphabet by Gareth Evans about Radiohead's body of work.

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 utilized 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, globalization, 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.

This is the first book from Radiohead of their artwork. It is publishing alongside a book of lyrics and scribblings, Fear Stalks the Land!

Kid A Mnesia is a 240 x 189mm hardback with a paper case cover printed in 5 colors on uncoated stock with debossing on the front and spine and a specially designed, peelable sticker. Inside, the endpapers are dyed black uncoated paper. 360 pages long and heavily illustrated throughout, the internal pages are printed in 5 colors on coated Italian paper with one 40-page section at the midpoint on heavy uncoated paper. A paper gatefold section ends the book folding out to reveal a spread of 3 images each side.

About the Author

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.

Critical 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"

Publishing Information

Publisher: Canongate Books
Pub date: 2022-03-22
Length: 364 pages

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