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The Museum of Modern Art, New York
October 2009
On Sale: October 19, 2009
64 pages
ISBN: 0870707604
EAN: 9780870707605
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Non-Fiction
Tim Burton has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking over
the past three decades. With a visual style inspired by the
aesthetics of animation and silent comedy, Burton's work
melds the exotic, the horrific and the comic, manipulating
expressionism and fantasy with the skill of a graphic
novelist. Published to accompany a major career
retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art, this affordable
volume considers Burton's career as an artist and filmmaker.
It narrates the evolution of his creative practices,
following the current of his visual imagination from his
earliest childhood drawings through his mature oeuvre.
Illustrated with works on paper, moving-image stills, drawn
and painted concept art, puppets and maquettes, storyboards
and examples of his work as a graphic artist for his
non-film projects, this volume sheds new light on Burton and
presents previously unseen works from the artist's personal
archive. Acclaimed American filmmaker Tim Burton (born 1958)
is known for his dark, gothic films about quirky outsiders,
many of which are both Hollywood blockbusters and cult
classics. To date they have been nominated for 16 Academy
Awards and have won six. They include Pee-Wee's
Big Adventure (1985), Beetle Juice (1988),
Batman (1989), Edward Scissorhands (1990),
Batman Returns (1992), Ed Wood (1994),
Sleepy Hollow, (1999), Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory and Corpse Bride (both 2005) and
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
(2007), among others. Alice in Wonderland is slated
for 2010. Burton has collaborated extensively with composer
Danny Elfman and with actors Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham
Carter.
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