Over the past few years Marcel Dzama's drawings of odd mutant figures have propelled him to bona fide art stardom. Executed with guileless simplicity and infused with a radiant innocence and an idiosyncratic sense of humor far removed from other strategies that have fueled artmaking over the past decade, Dzama's work is part of a new sensibility among artists born in the mid-1970s, that mingles the influence of Henry Darger, cartoon strips and a dark surrealistic streak. This concise and affordable survey examines the evolution of Dzama's singular approach to drawing between the key years of 1996 and 2001, using works held in the Bernardi Collection. In an accompanying essay, James Patten links Dzama to Mikhail Bakhtin's ideas on grotesque humor and the carnivalesque, showing how each drawing contains an amalgam of allusions to twentieth-century popular culture.
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For Dzama fans this is a worthwhile book to own as it contains drawings from the years 1997-2000 and is filled with many wonderful, full color drawings. These are mostly drawings where there is one or two characters on a page with lots of white space around them. The only drawbacks to this book are the dimensions which are too small for my tastes, I would have preferred larger reproductions. And a hardcover edition would have been nicer. But the actual drawings themselves are quite fun and recommended especially if you want a collection of Dzama's earlier artwork.
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