- Paperback: 96 pages
- Publisher: McSweeney's Publishing; First Edition edition (1 May 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1932416994
- ISBN-13: 978-1932416992
- Product Dimensions: 30.9 x 23.3 x 1.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 969,580 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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With "The Berlin Years, " Marcel Dzama's visions of elegant, enigmatic bears, bats, and sexy ladies were delivered to a slumbering nation. Now, "The Berliner Ensemble Thanks You All" provides entirely new artwork for an eager audience. The book -- actually a redesigned envelope with 28 loose-leaf prints suitable for framing -- features watercolors and drawings of bats, nurses, horses, guns, girls, masks, ballerinas, cowboys and more, and shows why Dzama is sought after by such luminaries as Beck and Nick Hornby, and collected by Jim Carrey and Steve Martin.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Wonderful Art, Great Deal
15 Aug 2009
Format:Paperback
For the price you get this great portfolio of prints from Marcel Dzama to hang up and display. If you like Dzama's art then you really can't go wrong here. Each individual print is worth the asking price. The Berliner Ensemble is an entirely new collection of prints. There is no overlap with the earlier Berlin Years portfolio. The quality of the printing is the same for each portfolio and looks good. The main difference is the "style" of Dzama. The Berlin Years tends to have more simple compositions and a mostly muted green and brown color palette. The Berliner Ensemble is more reflective of his current work and has denser compositions and a brighter color palette with lots of saturated reds. I personally like that each has a distinct tone and one is not a repeat of the other. If you haven't bought this one yet then don't put it off too long, eventually it will go out of print and become a collector's item like the Berlin Years. At this price it's a no-brainer!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Pretty Great
24 April 2009
Format:Paperback
Great item for those who are fans of the artist, although I liked the scrapbook that came along with the item more than the prints.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Not Perfect But Definitely Worth The Price
25 May 2008
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Inevitably this collection of prints is going to be compared with "The Berlin Years". The packaging and the prints are a bit smaller than "The Berlin Years". The printing quality is on par with the second edition of "The Berlin Years", i.e., no where near as good as the first edition. About 25% of the prints have what I would consider printing defects, mostly minor but still noticeable. These defects range from incomplete image printing (very minor but noticeable if you're looking) to ink in areas where there should be no ink, which marks areas of the print with subtle tonal gradations instead of a clean ground - not really a big deal but noticeable if you have a keen eye. I bought multiple sets, and each set has prints with these defects.
The imagery in this collection is more jam-packed than the images included in "The Berlin Years". Almost all of the prints have many characters engaged in some kind of curious activity or arranged in an odd vignette. I suppose it comes down to personal taste, but I prefer the more spartan images included in "The Berlin Years".
This collection includes a poster and a set of four prints that when combined makes one large image (28 prints in total including this set of four). The set of four is curious as the prints can be combined in any layout you wish to make the complete image. They can be arranged horizontally, vertically, or a grid of four. It's kind of fun, and the complete image is one of the more interesting in the collection of prints. If you wanted to go hog wild you could cover an entire wall as the prints connect in any arrangement, no matter if you have four, ten, or one hundred sets of these four prints. I'm not so fond of the poster. It's probably my least fave image included (a group of guys on horseback arranged in a circle on a black ground ), so I was bit disappointed that it was the one chosen for the poster.
The scrapbook is pretty much the same layout as the one included in "The Berlin Years" but not as fun. The pages are not as frenzied and the imagery not as interesting; again, I suppose this a matter of personal taste.
I'm not as enthusiastic about this set as I was with "The Berlin Years" but am happy to have more examples of M. Dzama's work to enjoy.
The imagery in this collection is more jam-packed than the images included in "The Berlin Years". Almost all of the prints have many characters engaged in some kind of curious activity or arranged in an odd vignette. I suppose it comes down to personal taste, but I prefer the more spartan images included in "The Berlin Years".
This collection includes a poster and a set of four prints that when combined makes one large image (28 prints in total including this set of four). The set of four is curious as the prints can be combined in any layout you wish to make the complete image. They can be arranged horizontally, vertically, or a grid of four. It's kind of fun, and the complete image is one of the more interesting in the collection of prints. If you wanted to go hog wild you could cover an entire wall as the prints connect in any arrangement, no matter if you have four, ten, or one hundred sets of these four prints. I'm not so fond of the poster. It's probably my least fave image included (a group of guys on horseback arranged in a circle on a black ground ), so I was bit disappointed that it was the one chosen for the poster.
The scrapbook is pretty much the same layout as the one included in "The Berlin Years" but not as fun. The pages are not as frenzied and the imagery not as interesting; again, I suppose this a matter of personal taste.
I'm not as enthusiastic about this set as I was with "The Berlin Years" but am happy to have more examples of M. Dzama's work to enjoy.
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