书名：KAWS: Art and Comics / KAWS：艺术与漫画
定价：388.0
ISBN：9783791392011
作者：Ralph Gleis , Angela Stief , Florian Waldvogel
版次：1
出版时间：2026-07

内容提要：

书名：KAWS: Art & Comic / KAWS：艺术与漫画
作者：Ralph Gleis (Editor), Angela Stief (Editor), Florian Waldvogel (Editor)
出版：Prestel，2026年
装帧：精装，240页
语种：英文
尺寸：约 22.5 × 30.4 cm

本书广泛探讨了漫画、角色以及KAWS与其同代艺术家的视觉语言。它将美国艺术家KAWS与精选的当代艺术立场进行对话，聚焦其角色形象的艺 术自主性——这些形象融合了街头艺术、波普艺术、商业艺术和公共艺术的特性。漫画具有普世语言，在许多文化中都是以图像和文字讲述故事的方式。从1960年代起，凯斯·哈林等艺术家质疑了高雅艺术与低俗艺术的划分，KAWS、Joyce Pensato等当代艺术家继承了这一传统。KAWS于1990年代作为涂鸦艺术家出道，以在公共空间的海报和广告上覆盖风格化的骷髅与交叉骨图案而闻名。他以其大型具象雕塑著称，材质涵盖青铜、木材和充气材料，其标志性的COMPANION和ACCOMPLICE角色常呈现出孤独、忧郁的神态。本书包含150幅彩色插图。

This publication places the American artist KAWS in dialog with selected contemporary stances with a focus on the artistic autonomy of his characters, who unite characteristics of street, pop, commercial, and public art. Comics are characterized by a universal language and exist in many cultures as an accessible way of telling stories graphically, in words and images. From the 1960s onward, artists such as Keith Haring and H.C. Westermann questioned the division between high and low art. Prominent contemporary artists in this tradition include KAWS, Joyce Pensato, Cosima von Bonin, and Peter Saul. KAWS started out as a graffiti artist during the 1990s, whose practice evolved to overpainting posters and advertisements displayed in public; in doing so, his trademark strategy was to cover the models' faces with a stylized skull and crossbones. He is especially well known for his larger-than-life figurative sculptures in bronze, wood, and inflatables. His COMPANIONs and ACCOMPLICEs display a range of emotional states, often isolated and melancholy.