Research Catalog

Title

The Quay brothers' universum / Suzanne Buchan, Jaap Guldemond, Marente Bloemheuvel.

Publication

Amsterdam : EYE Filmmuseum ; Rotterdam : nai010 publishers, distribution, [2013]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bloemheuvel, Marente
• Guldemond, Jaap
• Buchan, Suzanne
• Quay, Timothy, 1947-
• Quay, Stephen, 1947-
• EYE Film Instituut Nederland host institution.

Description

144 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

Identical twins Stephen and Timothy Quay, born in Pennsylvania, better known as the Quay Brothers, are influential stop-motion animators. The Quay Brothers are internationally known for their incredibly inventive, other-worldly films that blend objects, puppets and people from real life with gloomy fantasies and haunted visions. This book presents their intriguing works as well as their sources of inspiration and fascinations. Over their careers, they developed an unmistakable aesthetic that somehow manages to inspire, confound, and often disturb their viewers. The Eye Filmmuseum is presenting a large exhibition of their work, including their animation films, set designs (which they call Dormitoriums) and works on paper, but also works from other animation filmmakers, Wunderkammer artefacts, anatomical models, Eastern European posters, drawings from the Prinzhorn Collection, scores by Karlheinz Stockhausen and other sources of their inspiration.

Alternative Title

Universum

Subject

• Quay, Timothy, 1947-
• Quay, Stephen, 1947-
• Quay, Timothy, 1947- > Exhibitions
• Quay, Timothy, 1947- > Criticism and interpretation
• Quay, Stephen, 1947- > Exhibitions
• Quay, Stephen, 1947- > Criticism and interpretation
• Brothers Quay
• Brothers Quay > Exhibitions
• Brothers Quay > History and criticism
• Motion picture producers and directors > United States > Exhibitions
• Animators > United States > Exhibitions
• Stop-motion animation films > Exhibitions
• Experimental films > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Colofon: "Published on the occasion of the exhibition The Quay Brothers' universum, December 15, 2013- March 9, 2014"

Bibliography (note)

• Includes filmography and bibliographical references (pages 141-143).

Contents

Foreword / Sandra den Hamer -- Introduction : The Quay Brothers' Universum / Jaap Guldemond -- Essay: Short circuits and footnote traces: the Quay Brothers / Suzanne Buchan -- The Quay Brothers' Film -- Affiches -- Franz Kafka -- The Quay Brothers Black drawings -- La Maison de Toone -- Figurentheatre Triangel -- Richard Teschner -- The Quay Brothers Atelier Koninck -- Wellcome Collection -- Écorchés -- Anatomy -- Phrenology -- The Quay Brothers Film -- Prinzhorn Collection -- Robert Walser -- The Quay Brothers Film -- Bruno Schulz -- Karlheinz Stockhausen -- The Quay Brothers Film -- Walerian Borowezyk -- Jan Lenica -- Alexandre Alexeieff -- Ladislav Starewicz -- Arthur Melbourne-Cooper -- The Quay Brothers Dormitorium.

ISBN

9789462081277

OCLC

• 868825299
• SCSB-12511774

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library