{"product_id":"9781644230442","title":"William Shakespeare × Marcel Dzama: A Midsummer Night's Dream","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eWilliam Shakespeare × Marcel Dzama: A Midsummer Night's Dream\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): William Shakespeare\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSet in an enchanted forest, Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is the ideal subject for artist Marcel Dzama, whose work frequently references dreams, fairy tales, and mythical worlds.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInspired by Ovid’s \u003ci\u003eMetamorphoses\u003c\/i\u003e, Shakespeare’s celebrated romantic comedy intertwines multiple narratives under the influence of transformation and witchcraft. The play is often staged with actors wearing animal masks, an aspect which appeals particularly to Dzama, whose work is characterized by the fusion of human and animal, fantasy and reality.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The second title in David Zwirner Books’s \u003ci\u003eSeeing Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e series revisits the ultimate fairy tale through the eyes of a contemporary artist who feels a special affinity for its imagery. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“Offers a glimpse into the mind of the artist and his delicately rendered, infinitely bizarre universe.”\u003cbr\u003e“Since the late 1990s, Marcel Dzama has populated his ink-and-watercolor drawings with sundry dismemberments and wounds accomplished by swords, knives, arrows, guns, bats, and the occasional mace; the malevolent images may be inspired by hellish doings, but this is hell as circus ring or costume ball. His is a fun-house hell where sinners are condemned to an eternity of enigma.”\u003cbr\u003e“The second in publisher David Zwirner’s Seeing Shakespeare series, the impeccable coupling of A MidSummer Night’s Dream with contemporary Canadian artist Marcel Dazma makes for a particularly magical outcome. Dazma’s vibrant watercolors of polkadot-laden fairies donning butterfly wings, an ever-present moon with a coy smile, and human-animal fusions dance off the page, portraying a Shakespearean classic anew.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781644230442\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"David Zwirner Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40994781200590,"sku":"9781644230442","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/O_3de66e4d-032c-4784-8d77-4e625febd78d.jpg?v=1646948222","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781644230442","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}