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Stanley Donwood
To the Ultimate, 2000Ink, paper7 1/2 x 5 1/4 in
19 x 13.5 cmSeries: Kid A and Amnesiac (1999 - 2001)versoSDO 0034Stanley DonwoodPhoto: Stanley Donwood'The phrase ‘frightfully bad for business ‘ is from a newspaper account of (I think) a war or violent conflict, from the perspective of foreign investors. Hence the best holding a gun… the rest of the picture has that strange Medusa-headed man offering a journey of a lifetime… perhaps to the other side.' Stanley Donwood
Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood never worked together in an obvious way. Instead, they created a different way of thinking about creativity. Two people producing in tandem with each working concurrently and constantly bouncing images and ideas between them – pages torn from sketchbooks shared via fax (in 1999, the internet and emails were still in their infancy). Their drawings, which feed into record covers and Radiohead's expanded website and visual material, are more like diptychs than duets.TEST SPECIMENS brings together 60 works on paper Yorke and Donwood created in 1999-2001, whilst also working on the iconic turn of the millennium albums Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001).
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