Paul Davis (3)
Autor de Us and Them: What the British Think of The Americans; What The Americans Think of The British
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Sobre El Autor
Paul Davis, is an internationally acclaimed theoretical physicist, writer, and broadcaster. In 1995 he won the prestigious Templeton Prize for his work on the philosophical meaning of science, and was recently awarded the Kelvin Medal by the U. K. Institute of Physics for his success in bringing mostrar más science to the wider public. He is based in Australia but travels, teaches, and lectures frequently in the U. S. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Paul Davis - Graphic Artist
Obras de Paul Davis
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Conocimiento común
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
- Organizaciones
- fellow of the American Academy in Rome
- Biografía breve
- Paul Davis, illustrator, graphic designer, and Oklahoma native had his first illustrations published in Playboy in 1959. Soon thereafter, he joined Push Pin Studios. He began his freelance career in 1963, and has since had work appear in most major U.S. publications, including Time, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Fast Company, and Worth. He has served as art director for Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival as well as for Wig Wag and Normal magazines. Recent clients include UNITE!, McKinsey & Co., and A&E. Davis's work has been the subject of numerous one-man exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout Europe, the United States and Japan. He is on the faculty at the School of Visual Arts, a fellow of the American Academy in Rome, a member of the Art Director's Hall of Fame, and a member of the prestigious Applemaster program
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- #483,027
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I had never heard of Paul Davis before perusing Us & Them, hardly surprising given that my knowledge of comics and graphic art is so limited, and this book certainly doesn't inspire me to discover more. While I find the premise appealing in the abstract, the execution just doesn't live up to my expectations.
The illustrations themselves were crude and unappealing, looking like nothing so much as a grade schooler's self-indulgent scribbling. As someone who is frequently drawn to the beautiful ugliness of the grotesque and the irregular (as witnessed by my love of the incomparable Gertrude Degenhardt), I do not require that art be "pretty." But if it lacks the power to move me, and displays no technical skill whatsoever, as is the case here, I fail to see the point of looking at it.
The responses that Davis recorded from his subjects were no more rewarding than his drawings, being neither especially funny nor particularly penetrating. The stereotypes of the oblivious American, ignorant of the wider world, and the judgmental Briton, wrapped in an impenetrable cloak of assumed superiority, are here for the browsing. We're more alike than we think, apparently, at least when it comes to lazy thinking and shallow analysis... but I didn't need to read Us & Them to discover that.… (más)