Bücher von Stefan Marx

In 2019, Berlin-based contemporary artist Stefan Marx created a series of drawings for a daily column in The New York Times. Now, he has turned his Reading the News series into quite a unique board book. Whether you think of it as an artist's book, a coloring book, or an inspiring children's book, it opens up unusual spaces for our imaginations. With just a few concise lines, Stefan Marx cheerful fruit and veg will change your frame of mind about reading the news.Over the past 20 years, contemporary artist, skateboarder and illustrator STEFAN MARX (*1979 Schwalmstadt, Germany) has lent his unique handwriting to a variety of media: paper, canvas, porcelain and textiles. He publishes artists' books and zines, designs record covers for various labels, and shows his work in international exhibitions, at art book fairs and galleries. Marx lives and works in Berlin.

The Medium and the Message Words become images-writing, drawings, designs. For around twenty years Stefan Marx has been studying script. Lines of songs, sayings, sentences, and quotations, which he then translates in his own script, his graphic writing, into paintings or drawings-two-dimensional surfaces. The poetry of the statements and the painterly quality of the execution combine to form strong works of art. Marx develops each of his pieces with great precision for the specific situation, for the individual work of art, regardless of whether it is an edition, a unique work, a house, or a small invitation card. This is the first book about his Word Paintings in their many varieties and in all media. Essays explain Marx's drawing, printmaking, and painting, as well as his unique interplay of art and pop culture, sign and life.STEFAN MARX (*1979, Schwalmstadt) is an artist, a skateboarder, and a cultural philosopher. He published artist's books through his own publishing company, designs record covers for various labels, and exhibits his works at art book fairs and galleries. His work has been seen in many international exhibitions, as well as in his graphic designs for programs and labels. In August 2019 his drawing column appeared daily in the New York Times.

Als Ende der 90er-Jahre Tony Blair und Gerhard Schröder an die Macht kamen, war viel die Rede von Neuer Mitte und Spin Doctoring - linke Politik in neuer Verpackung. Stefan Marx, selbst aktiver Beobachter des politischen Geschehens in Berlin und London, beleuchtet die Hinterbühnen der Regierungszentralen unter Tony Blair und Gerhard Schröder. Er vergleicht den Stil der Informationspolitik der beiden Regierungschefs. Der Autor sprach dafür mit 50 Spitzenakteuren aus Polit-PR und Journalismus. Seine Untersuchung zeigt: Der Hype um den angeblich allmächtigen Spin Doctor verdeckt das eigentliche Phänomen - die verzweifelte Suche der Regierenden nach Antworten auf das rasante Tempo der neuen 24-Stunden-Newsmedien.