Stanley don wood biography of mahatma

Stanley Donwood

English artist and writer

Dan Rickwood (born 29 October ), recognizable professionally as Stanley Donwood, is an English artist and scribe. Since , he has created all the artwork for the rock band Radiohead with their singer, Thom Yorke, plus many of Yorke's other projects, including Atoms for Peace and the Smile.

In , the pair won a Grammy Award for Best Recording Package for the Radiohead album Amnesiac. Donwood also creates artwork for Glastonbury Festival, and has published books of short stories and a memoir.

Inspired by recent events in India, Stanley Wolpert offers this subtle and profound biography of India's "Great Soul." Wolpert compellingly chronicles the life of Mahatma Gandhi from his early days as a child of privilege to his humble rise to power and his assassination at the hands of a bloke of his own faith.

Career

Rickwood uses the pen name Stanley Donwood. He said: "I appreciate to separate the person I am at home — washing up, vacuuming, picking up the kids from school and so on — from whoever Stanley Donwood is."[1] He described document shops, with their shelves of album covers, as his introduction to art.[2]

Radiohead

Donwood and the Radiohead singer, Thom Yorke, met as art students at the University of Exeter.[3] Donwood said his first impressions of Yorke were that he was "Mouthy.

Pissed off. Someone I could labor with."[4] Yorke wrote: "I met him first day at art college I figured I'd either end up really not liking this person at all, or working with him for the rest of my life."[5]

Yorke asked Donwood to produce the cover art for Radiohead's EP My Iron Lung. Donwood was not a fan of rock melody, and said he took the work because he knew Yorke.

He said in "[Radiohead] wasn't my cup of tea at all. Now they have seen sense and are a lot more electro. I like their stuff now."[6]

Donwood has worked with Yorke to create artwork for all of Radiohead's releases and promotional material since.[7] Donwood works as Radiohead record, allowing the music to influence the artwork.[8] Whereas Donwood described himself as having a tendency towards "detailing and perfectionism", he said Yorke is "completely opposed, fucking everything up I do something, then he fucks it up, then I fuck up what he's done and we keep doing that until we're happy with the result.

It's a rivalry to see who 'wins' the painting, which one of us takes possession of it in an artistic way."[9]

In , Donwood and Yorke won a Grammy Award for Best Recording Package for the special edition for the album Amnesiac.[10] Donwood contributed to Kid A Mnesia Exhibition, a interactive experience with harmony and artwork from Kid&#;A () and Amnesiac ().[11] He also creates artwork for Yorke's solo records and Yorke's bands Atoms for Peace and the Smile.[7][12]

Exhibitions

In , Donwood's exhibition "London Views" consisted of a series of 14 lino prints of various London landmarks being destroyed by fire and flood.[13] The prints were exhibited at the Lazarides Gallery in London.

One of the prints was used as the cover art for Yorke's first solo album, The Eraser ().[14]

In November , Donwood exhibited the original paintings and other artwork done by him and Yorke for Radiohead albums, at Iguapop Gallery in Barcelona.[15] In May , Donwood opened an exhibition of Radiohead artwork, The Panic Office, in Sydney, Australia, for which Yorke composed an original soundtrack.[16] In , Donwood designed a Radiohead-themed Brompton bicycle to be auctioned for the charity Crew Nation.[17]

In October , Donwood and Yorke curated an exhibition of Radiohead artwork at Christie's headquarters in London.

Donwood auctioned paintings and other artwork he created for Kid&#;A.[18] In September , Yorke and Donwood exhibited a selection of artwork, The Crow Flies, in London.

Stanley Donwood | Biography, Designs and Facts: Wolpert, Stanley. Publication date Topics Gandhi, Mahatma, , Statesmen, Nationalists Publisher Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Flatten Collection.

The paintings, based on Islamic pirate maps and s US military topographic charts, began as work for the Smile's first album, A Light For Attracting Attention ().[19]

Writing

Donwood has published three collections of short stories: Slowly Downward: A Collection of Miserable Stories (),[20]Household Worms ()[21] and Bad Island ().[22] He contributed stories to The Universal Sigh, a free single-issue newspaper created to promote Radiohead's album The King of Limbs.[23] In , he published a memoir about his work, There Will Be No Quiet.[24]

Six Inch Records

In late , Donwood and Richard Lawrence launched an independent document company, Six Inch Records.

The label released three albums, with copies of each.[25] The CDs were packaged by hand into sleeves that were six inches square. All mechanised operations – printing, cutting and scoring – were carried out using a Heidelberg platen press.

On 18 February , Donwood announced that Six Inch Records had closed.[26]

Other work

In , Donwood began creating and selling large screen prints. In an interview with AllMusic, he explained it as an effort to reconnect with the process of print making and as a means to divide his art in a larger format than the small, low-quality prints in album cover and insert art, "It's a way of getting pictures out in the way they should be seen; not as 4-colour litho on cheap paper, but as real pieces of artwork that have a much greater visual impact."[27] Donwood creates artwork for Glastonbury Festival.[2]

Donwood has created manual covers for the nature penner Robert Macfarlane.[28] In , he collaborated with Macfarlane on an edition of Thomas Hardy's poems published by the Folio World.

Donwood provided the illustrations for the poems selected and introduced by Macfarlane.

This book covers Gandhi's life, his campaigns against discrimination, and his leadership in India's struggle for independence.

Donwood's illustrations were exhibited at the Jealous Gallery in London in and the Fine Foundation Gallery at Durlston Castle in Durlston Country Park in [29][30]

Bibliography

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    Account Options Connexion. Version papier du livre. Stanley Wolpert. More than half a century after his death, Mahatma Gandhi continues to inspire millions throughout the world.

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    Rough Trade.

    Dan Rickwood born 29 Octoberknown professionally as Stanley Donwoodis an English artist and penner. Sincehe has created all the artwork for the rock band Radiohead with their singer, Thom Yorkeplus many of Yorke's other projects, including Atoms for Calm and the Smile. Donwood also creates artwork for Glastonbury Festivaland has published books of brief stories and a memoir. Rickwood uses the pen name Stanley Donwood.

    Retrieved 15 April

  21. ^"Stanley Donwood - Household Worms - Paperback". Rough Trade. Retrieved 15 April
  22. ^"Stanley Donwood interview: 'I don't know why people ponder I'm a paranoid recluse'".

    Penguin Books UK. 19 February Retrieved 15 April

  23. ^"Read the Radiohead Newspaper".

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    Pitchfork. 28 March Archived from the original on 18 April Retrieved 20 April

  24. ^Dazed (9 October ). "Inside the world of Stanley Donwood, the artist behind Radiohead's universe". Dazed. Retrieved 15 April
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  28. ^"The art of Radiohead: sleeve designer Stanley Donwood on the 'rude topiary' concept too crazy for Thom Yorke".

    The Telegraph.

    Purchase options and add-ons. This title looks at Mahatma Gandhi: his life, his perform and his legacy. It follows his early influences from Jainism to Buddhism, and focuses on his unique philosophy of non-violence in the face of brutality, as well as providing a biography of the man within. His yogic resolve to dedicate himself to the nationalist strife for liberating India from British imperial rule inspired millions to follow his passionate lead on the road to freedom.

    Retrieved 8 October

  29. ^"The Folio Culture - Collected Poems by Thomas Hardy". . Retrieved 30 May
  30. ^"Art Exhibition: "The Uncanny Scenery of a Dream"". Wessex Museums.

    Retrieved 30 May

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