NASHVILLE RADIO: ART, WORDS AND MUSIC

Book ID/图书代码： 11684020C00016

English Summary/英文概要： Beyond his work as a musician, Jon Langford has attracted attention as a visual artist in recent years. Nashville Radio is the first collection of his art. It reproduces 215 paintings, as well as song lyrics and autobiographical writings. The book includes a CD of Langford performing 18 of the printed songs. Langford s song-paintings fuse portraiture with imagery derived from folk art, Dutch still life, classic Western wear, and the cold, cold warall instilled withhis trademark sardonic wit. He applies this distinctive style to the depiction of American musical icons like Bob Wills, Hank Williams, and Johnny Cash, but also to more ghostly, marginal figuresblindfolded cowboys, astronauts, and dancerswho are jerked around by success and exploitation, fame and neglect. Underlying his work is a deep love of musical lore, twinned with fierce opposition to the death-dealing tendencies in the culture of his adopted homeland, from the killing off of authentic popular music by mass-marketed drivel to the embrace of capital punishment as a response to social ills. Langford s work offers an alternative perspective, recalling a time when great visionaries and pioneers thrived at the heart of the mainstreamand the lid wasn t on so tight. "

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 除了作为音乐家的工作，乔恩·兰福德近年来作为视觉艺术家引起了人们的注意。《纳什维尔广播》是他的第一个艺术收藏。它复制了215幅画作，以及歌词和自传体作品。这本书包括一张朗福德表演18首印刷歌曲的CD。朗福德的歌曲绘画融合了来自民间艺术、荷兰静物、经典西方服饰和冷战的意象，所有这些都灌输了他标志性的讽刺智慧。他将这种独特的风格运用到对美国音乐偶像如鲍勃·威尔斯、汉克·威廉姆斯和约翰尼·卡什的刻画上，同时也运用到对那些被成功、剥削、名声和忽视所蒙蔽的牛仔、宇航员和舞蹈演员的刻画上。在他的作品背后，隐藏着对音乐知识的热爱，与他的第二故乡文化中对死亡交易的强烈反对相辅相成，从大量销售的胡言乱语扼杀真正的流行音乐，到作为对社会弊病的回应而接受死刑。朗福德的作品提供了另一种视角，让人回想起伟大的梦想家和先驱者在主流的中心蓬勃发展的时代，那时没有那么严密的控制。（WYL）

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About the Author/作者介绍： 约翰·朗福德出生于威尔士新港，在利兹大学学习美术。他是利兹传奇朋克乐队迈肯斯的创始成员，艺术金属力量三人组“三个约翰斯”和好战的硬地摇滚乐队“瓦科兄弟”。自1992年搬到芝加哥以来，他广泛展出自己的艺术作品，为汉克·威廉姆斯和巴迪·盖伊的专辑设计封面，反对死刑，出版了一部讽刺音乐产业的漫画，还当过两次爸爸。他目前的项目包括一个口语多媒体表演，执行时代的最后一首歌，他在2006年在北美巡演;还有一张独唱CD，《金砖:伟大探险家的谎言/哥伦布在关塔那摩湾》。

John Langford was bornin Newport, Wales and studied Fine Arts at Leeds University. He is the founding member of legendary Leeds punk band the Mekons, art-metal power trio the Three Johns and militant hard-country rockers the Waco Brothers. Since moving to Chicago in 1992 he has exhibited his artwork extensively, designed covers for albums by Hank Williams and Buddy Guy, campaigned against the death penalty, published a volume of cartoons lampooning the music industry, and become a dad twice over. His current projects include a spoken-word multimedia performance, The Executionera (TM)s Last Songs, with which he will tour North America in 2006; and a solo CD, Gold Brick: Lies of the Great Explorers/Columbus at Guantanamo Bay.

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