Shelf Obsession Phil Shaw
Shelf Obsession by Phil Shaw, published by Black Dog Publishing Limited on March 27, 2018, is a 176-page exploration of the artist’s unique approach to bookshelf prints. In this edition, Shaw examines the bookshelf as a medium that conveys significant messages while reflecting societal ironies. His work interrogates the evolving role of the printed word in our digital era, utilizing intertextuality to explore the transfer of meaning.
Readers will find that Shaw’s digital bookshelf prints blend charm with a critical perspective on culture, daily life, and the human condition. The images, which employ archival printmaking techniques, juxtapose real and remixed book titles in unexpected ways, revealing both humor and poignancy. Accompanied by extensive commentary from the artist and an autobiographical essay, this book offers insights into Shaw’s multifaceted career, encompassing art, music, and scientific research, making it a comprehensive presentation of his innovative work.
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In Phil Shaw’s practice, a bookshelf is a channel for potent messages, and a mirror that reflects the ironies of society. His distinctive bookshelf prints interrogate the changing place of the printed word in a digital age, and the transfer of meaning through intertextuality.
Embracing paradoxes and contradictions, Shaw uses archival printmaking techniques to produce painstaking images in which book titles real and remixed coincide in unanticipated ways to reveal truths that are at once humorous and poignant.
Shaw’s digital bookshelf prints are, at first glance, charming achievements in trompe-l’oeil, yet a closer look reveals that they cast a cynical eye on culture, daily life, current events and the human condition. Combining rigorous research and creative playfulness, the images in this book demand a second look.
With extensive commentary by the artist and an autobiographical essay providing insight into Shaw’s career as a polymath spanning art, music and scientific research, Phil Shaw: Shelf Obsession is a comprehensive and entertaining presentation of this groundbreaking British digital printmaker.
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