Bill Sienkiewicz: Revolution, Vol. 1 (Trade Edition)
Bill Sienkiewicz: Revolution, Vol. 1 (Trade Edition)
Winner of the 2020 Tripwire Award for Best Collection
With a luxurious fabric cover and an introduction by Neil Gaiman, who famously collaborated with Sienkiewicz on The Sandman, the Trade Edition features images curated by Sal Abbinanti, Sienkiewicz’s representative and colleague for nearly twenty years.
Ben Davis, award-winning Senior Writer for Artnet News, considers Sienkiewicz’s process and places him within the context of art and popular culture, and an interview with the artist himself expresses his unique voice and presents some of his greatest artistic achievements.
978-1-64442-003-4
Pub date: 11/05/2019
$49.95
Fabric on board with tipped-in image
216 pages
125 full-color images
12 x 9.5” (HxW)
CONTRIBUTOR BIOS
Bill Sienkiewicz (pronounced sin-KEV-itch) is an Eisner-winning, Emmy-nominated artist best known for revolutionizing the way comic books are drawn and made. His work has graced the National Museum of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; art galleries in Paris, Barcelona, and Tuscany; and advertising campaigns for Nike, MTV, Nissan, the 2006 Winter Olympics, and dozens of Hollywood movies.
Sienkiewicz is a classically trained painter whose artworks incorporate abstract and expressionist influences and combine oil painting, acrylics, watercolor, mixed media, collage, and mimeograph.
Ben Davis is Senior Art Critic for Artnet News, the most widely read art publication in the world. He is the author of 9.5 Theses on Art and Class (Haymarket, 2013) and the editor of The Elements of Architecture (Taschen, 2018). Recent essays by Davis have appeared in the books Public Servants: Art and the Crisis of the Common Good (MIT Press, 2016) and The Future of Public Space (Metropolis, 2018). His writings have been featured in New York, New York Times, Slate, The Village Voice, and many other publications. He lives in Brooklyn.