Underworlds

地下世界

•产品信息——

出版社：Thames & Hudson

出版日期：2023年10月

语言：英语

页数：256页

ISBN-10：0500026319

ISBN-13：978-0500026311

尺寸：233mm x171mm

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

•内容简介——

由著名图像收藏家和社交媒体人物斯蒂芬·埃尔科克（Stephen Ellcock）策划，探索自然的、构造的、想象的和潜意识的地下世界，是一本黑暗中令人回味的图像汇编。

从地球表面下的生命和自然系统的描绘开始，到我们潜意识深处的图像，《地下世界》将读者带入了一场迷人的视觉奥德赛，探索万物的底层。从彼得·保罗·鲁本斯（Peter Paul Rubens）和勒内·马格利特（René Magritte）到卡拉·沃克（Kara Walker）和罗杰·巴伦（Roger Ballen）等当代艺术家的作品，以及最近从世界各地档案馆出土的图片，都将在此展出。经过图像炼金术士斯蒂芬·埃尔科克（Stephen Ellcock）的精心策划、主题编排和配对，这些非凡的描绘唤起了人们对真实和想象中的地下世界的遐想，千百年来一直吸引着人类。

从我们脚下的洞穴和秘密碉堡，到想象中的地狱景观和超现实主义梦境，这些令人不安、震惊和奇妙的视觉效果横跨自然和人造地下世界，以及想象和潜意识世界。其中的艺术作品既有科学和摄影作品，也有超现实和幻想作品。埃尔科克的个人导言和章节背景导言确立了关键主题，而板块文字则阐释了基本概念、历史事件和人物。引人深思的文学、哲学和精神名言为引人入胜的图片锦上添花。

这些引人注目的图片和文字共同突出了真实与想象之间的相互作用，揭示了真实是如何为我们的想象提供信息的，反之，我们的想象又是如何描绘神秘、卑微和未知的。

300 幅彩色插图

A darkly evocative compendium of images exploring natural, constructed, imaginary, and subconscious underworlds, curated by renowned image collector and social media figure Stephen Ellcock.

Underworlds takes readers on a captivating visual odyssey to the underbelly of everything, beginning with depictions of life and natural systems existing beneath the surface of the Earth and ending with imagery that emanates from the depths of our subconscious. Work by world-renowned artists―from Peter Paul Rubens and René Magritte to contemporary artists such as Kara Walker and Roger Ballen―is featured alongside recently unearthed images from archives around the world. Expertly curated, themed, and paired by image alchemist Stephen Ellcock, these remarkable depictions evoke the underworlds―both real and imagined―that have fascinated humankind for millennia.

From the burrows and secret bunkers beneath our feet to imagined hellscapes and surrealist dreamscapes, the disquieting, alarming,and wonderful visuals span natural and constructed subterranea and imagined and subconscious worlds. The works of art featured range from the scientific and photographic to the surreal and visionary. A personal introduction by Ellcock together with contextual chapter introductions establish key themes while panel texts elucidate essential concepts, historical events, and figures. Thought-provoking literary, philosophical, and spiritual quotations punctuate the intriguing images.

Together, the arresting images and authoritative text highlight the interplay between the real and the imagined, revealing how the real has informed our imagination, and conversely how our imagination has depicted the esoteric, the abject, and the unknown.

300 color illustrations