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"This album is about expression. The imagination and personality of the individual cannot be trapped by small minds or defined by any one person. The genious of arts finds sanctuary among children and madmen to survive. That is who we are."
Marilyn Manson has collaborated with Gottfried helnwein for the album's artwork which is part of a greater series that will be published in a book and exhibited in museums across the world. ...

Seine Kunst arbeitet meistens mit dem Element des Schocks. Er zeigte offen den Zynismus einer Gesellschaft, die nicht mehr die Dinge so sieht, wie sie sind, sondern dessen Sichtweise durch bereits bekannte 'Bilder über Dinge' geprägt ist.
"Die Funktion des Künstlers besteht darin, die Erfahrung eines überraschten Erkennens wachzurufen: dem Betrachter zeigen, was er weiß, von dem er aber nicht weiß, dass er es weiß.- Helnwein ist ein Meister dieses überraschten Erkennens." (William Burroughs) ...

Disney artist Carl Barks (1901-2000) created one of Walt Disney's most famous characters, Scrooge McDuck. Barks also produced more than 500 comic book stories. His work is ranked among the most widely circulated, best-loved, and most influential of all comic book art.
Although the images he created are known virtually everywhere, Barks was an isolated storyteller, living in the desert of California and preferring to labor without public fanfare during most of his career.
The influence of Barks's work on such filmmakers as George Lucas and Steven Spielberg and on such artists as Gottfried Helnwein has extended Barks's significance far beyond the boundaries of comics. ...

(Katalog)
36 Seiten, Heft, farbig. BxH: 24,5x30,5cm. Cobra museum voor moderne kunst 2004.
Sprache: Niederländisch, Englisch
Katalog der Ausstellung 'Donald Duck 70 jaar jong!' in Amstelveen, 2004. Texte und Bilder zu Donald Duck, Kaj Stenvall, Gottfried Helnwein und Carl Barks. Beilage: faksimilierte Reprint-Ausgaben der Nummern 1 (1952) und 2500 des holländischen Magazins Donald Duck, een vrolijk Weekblad. ...

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Cover: painting "Mouse I" by Gottfried Helnwein ...

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How can one recount the Holocaust? That is certainly one of the major questions confronting any writer who tries to write on this theme. How is one to transform the horrific and inconceivable reality into fiction? How can one create a feeling of aunthenticity in the reader? How to disturb his emotional world without resorting to sentimental manipulation and how to avoid banality? ... ...

... Gottfried Helnwein, and a guy named Paul who ran the first real magazine I wrote for when I was twenty. None of them are musicians, but each of them taught me about persona, conception, manipulation, and the manifestation of what is ... ...

The father role is played with gravity by Christopher Lee who hooks his candy-deprived child up to elaborate Helnwein-style dental monstrosities. ... ...

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Putting Holes into Happiness,
Kneel down humble men and become the height of our children. Let your heart crawl into your knee and realize that all knowledge lives through imagination. This is the nursery business, always get a photocopy. Our cultures may continue to disintegrate but we just rebuild with abusement parks, filming the process and replaying it as situation comedy. We wear ribbons, hold hands, celebrate and concentrate on camps that train our kindergartens to shout out "star-spangled" banter.
We will medicate the lunacy of "degenerate" art with heavy doses of old-fashioned (original recipe) family virtues. "Let's make sure all of these offensive forms of entertainment are shown publicly, and burned immediately as a warning to us all!" ...

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Working with renowned Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein, the new look encompassed mock Nazi regalia and an overall feel of camp and cinematic menace. The album, The Golden Age Of Grotesque (2003) - featuring ... ...

... und der österreichische Künstler Gottfried Helnwein verfolgte in seiner Inszenierung von Strawinskys The Rake's Progress das Eindringen des Horrors in den Alltag ebenso unerbittlich, wie er dies in seinen photorealistischen Bildern ... ...

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Inszenierung, Choreografie: Gregor Seyffert
Bühne, Video, Licht, Kostüme und Maske: und Gottfried Helnwein
Dichtung aus "Lalla Rookh" von Thomas Moore
für Solostimmen, Chor und Orchester ...