Out of My Head

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The Imaginary Creatures of Josep Baque

By Brian Chidester and Josep Baque

Summary

Out of My Head is the first critical biography of Josep Baqué, exploring his art within the context of 20th-century movements, the Franco dictatorship in Spain, and his personal archives. Author Brian Chidester reveals how Baqué's creative process and imagination served as tools to transcend oppression through wonder.
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Ideal for readers interested in arts and culture, art history, and the impact of political regimes on creative expression.

Out of My Head: The Imaginary Creatures of Josep Baqué tells the unbelievable story of a World War II-era police officer in Barcelona who in his private time created 1500 imaginary creatures and told not a soul about them.

Description

In this first-ever critical biography of Baqué, art historian, author, and curator Brian Chidester reflects the artist and his creation through the prism of 20th century art, the Franco dictatorship in Spain (1939–75), and the few correlative records in Baqué's personal archive.

Yet the book doubles as a manual of sorts on the creative process, and most fascinatingly, speaks to the deeper role the imagination plays in overcoming oppression through wonder.

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A stunningly comprehensive collection praised for spotlighting Baqué as an extraordinary "outsider artist." The book functions as both a critical biography and a field guide to one of the 20th century's most unique and overlooked imaginations, earning commendation from ‘‘Four Color Apocalypse.’’

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781683966814

Publisher: Fantagraphics

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 30 May 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Fantagraphics

Illustration: 400 Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 285.0mm

Height: 156.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 528

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Arts & Culture Brian Chidester Josep Baque Non-Fiction

About the Author

Brian Chidester is an art historian, author, documentarian, and journalist. Exhibitions he has curated include: One Day You'll See: A History of Afrofuturism and Charles A.A. Dellschau and the Mythology of Flight. He is a contributor of articles and reviews for The American Prospect, The Atlantic, L.A. Weekly, Paste, and The Village Voice, and is the author of Pop Surf Culture: Music, Design, Film, and Fashion from the Bohemian Surf Era (Santa Monica Press). Chidester has also been a writer/researcher/producer of documentaries for the BBC, PBS, and Showtime, and is the director of the feature-length film As the Wind: The Enchanted Life of Eden Ahbez. He lives in New York City. Josep Baqué was born in 1895 in Barcelona where he worked as a policeman for much of his life. His bound collection of 1500 imaginary creatures (or bestiary) remained hidden to all but himself and his family until its rediscovery over forty years after his death in 1967.