Concertina-folded and boxed. 86 color photographs. With essays by Peter Nagy and Adhipen Bose.
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"In India images are loaded, they explode with meaning... they have great potential," writes Peter Nagy, former director of New York's Nature Morte gallery, in his introduction to Cock: Indian Firework Art. Firework packaging labels sporting bright, multicolored images of Krishna, Vishnu, Ganesh and other Hindu deities emblazon this concertina picture book for adults. In India, fireworks play a role in the Festival of Lights, a religious holiday illuminated by thousands of candles and fireworks, which has developed also into "frenzied nights of partying and gambling," a suitable starting point for this eye-catching pop-cultural treatment assembled by packaging expert Luigi Giannuzzi and Gavin Aldred and printed on glossy, thick card stock of a commercialized religious aesthetic. The title word refers to a popular brand of Indian fireworks.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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Like any form of Indian art, this collection of stunning images is an all-enveloping feast for the senses. Sivakasi on the southern tip of India is where the sub-continent's major fireworks manufacturers are located and it is also a centre of the printing industry -- when the two come together, the result is a visual explosion. Searing colors, bizarre typography and hallucinogenic images combine to create a style of packaging that resembles nothing else on earth.
It's an art of noisy extremes, a volcanic eruption of creativity -- and all this, of course, before you even light the blue touch paper. Printed on boards in concertina form and packed in original fireworks boxes, this brilliantly original book celebrates a unique graphic language where understatement is suicidal, excess equals success and sheer spectacle is everything.
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India won my heart during a visit two years ago; my wife won it for India all over again with a gift of this wonderful collection.
The art is taken from Indian fireworks packages. It comes as a fold-out, two-sided continuous 20 foot fan made of heavy coated cardboard. There are many subjects: religious scenes, medieval knights, contemporary tanks and other military equipment, Bollywood starlets, hunters and wild animals, strongmen, holy men and circus scenes. Exuberant, lively, always garish -- a joy. And, it's an education on what sells fireworks in that fascinating country. Robert C. Ross 2008
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