Gebundenes Buch

Spawn Till You Die: The Fin Art of Ray Troll

Beschreibung

Ray Troll’s new book Spawn Till You Die: The Fin Art of Ray Troll is an exuberant plunge into the fantastic realities of sea creatures and prehistoric animals that come alive with scientific realism and his quirky sense of humor. For more than four decades, this celebrated Alaskan artist has been luring, hooking, and landing fans around the world with his mesmerizing renditions of the inhabitants of Planet Ocean, past and present. His art is featured in the nation’s major natural history museums including the Smithsonian, in galleries, and in books, as well as on immensely popular T-shirts. Part natural history adventure and part underground comic, his work depicts beautiful and accurately drawn fish of all kinds, Northwest Coast totems, Freud and Darwin, fossils, resurrections of extinct animals, and much more. Troll’s art is deeply thought provoking (pun intended) but also simply fun to experience and never far from an inside joke he seems to be sharing with everyone. Some of his pieces are amusingly tongue-in-cheek, others are beautifully surrealistic and evocative of the interconnectedness of life on Earth, and his grandly composed major pieces are brilliant, inspiring panoramas of the natural world. His whimsy and attention to detail in his renderings of fish and other aquatic creatures has earned him a devoted following of scientists, anglers, and people who just like a good laugh. Welcome to the fishy, funny, inspiring art of Ray Troll.

Autor

RAY TROLL is a world-renowned artist known for his scientifically accurate and often humorous artwork, inspired by field work and research in marine science, paleontology, geology, ecology, and evolutionary biology. Ray’s renditions of everything from modern day salmon and marine mammals to bizarre creatures of the prehistoric past have become iconic in fishing, scientific, and environmental activist communities around the world. His work, distributed from the Soho Coho Art Gallery in Ketchikan, Alaska, can be found on posters, hoodies, and millions of t-shirts sported by fisher folks, the occasional celebrity and many others. Ray’s paintings and mixed-media drawings are in the collections of the Miami Museum of Science, the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Alaska Airlines, the Anchorage Museum, the Alaska State Museum, and the Ketchikan Museum. His books include Sharkabet: a Sea of Sharks from A to Z and Crusisn’ the Fossil Coastline and Cruisin the Fossil Freeway with Dr. Kirk Johnson, now director of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, for which he and Kirk were awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He and Port Townsend writer Brad Matsen produced four popular books: Shocking Fish Tales, Planet Ocean, Raptors, Fossil, Fins and Fangs and Rapture of the Deep. Ray’s recent ventures include co-hosting the popular Paleo Nerd Podcast, featuring informative and amusing interviews with leading paleontologists and scientists from around the world. He is the recipient of a gold medal for distinction in the natural history arts by the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, a Rasmuson Foundation Distinguished artist award and also received the Alaska Governor’s award for the arts. Troll has a ratfish species named for him and an extinct genus of extinct round-bellied herring named for him. He also plays icthyo-centirc rock n’ roll music with his band the Ratfish Wranglers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Clover Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 285mm x 233mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 1528g
• ISBN-13: 9781951038984
• ISBN-10: 1951038983
• Artikelnr.: 68926743