Dick Raaijmakers Monografie

  • Nederlands
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Publisher: V2_Publishing, Rotterdam
Editors: Arjen Mulder and Joke Brouwer
Bound, 448 pages, illustrated
 (color and b/w), format: 22 x 27 cm
ISBN 978-90-5662-600-6

€ 59,90 (incl. VAT)
 
 
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Realized with support of:
 FAPK, Fonds BKVB, Gemeente Eindhoven,
Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds,
Société Gavigniès, STROOM hcbk, VSB fonds

Dick Raaymakers: artist and pioneer

“By thinking outside of musical frames Raaymakers has been able to unite music, theater and visual art like no one else.” — Reinbert de Leeuw 

  

Dick Raaymakers (1930) is widely recognized as one of the founders of Dutch electronic music in the 1950s, and as a multimedia artist he was way ahead of his time. Dick Raaymakers' works and installations as well as his music and theater performances are so original that they are unique in the world. His influence on colleagues of his own generation but especially on younger generations of artists cannot be overestimated.

The English edition of the 2007 complete monograph about this striking artist, covering the breadth and depth of his work, is now available. The 450 page, richly illustrated book offers insight into Raaymakers' work methods, thought processes and motivation and is a must-have reference work. This overview is complemented by a number of essays by experts from the world of music and theater, such as Elmer Schönberger, Frans Evers, Kees Tazelaar, Michael van Hoogenhuyze and Paul Slangen.
    Together with V2_Institute for the Unstable Media, Dick Raaymakers has been digging through his personal archive for two years in order to track down the first sketches, correspondence, final concepts and often intense collaborations and performances of all of his works. This does not only offer an insight into the work of Dick Raaymakers, but into a major part of Dutch postwar art as well.

The Dick Raaymakers monograph is a book that should be in the collection of every lover of electronic music, theater, art and performance.

Translations: Hepzibah Kousbroek, Laura Martz and Leo Reijnen

 

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Orders can be made through the webshop of V2_Institute for the Unstable Media. You can pay using iDeal, Paypal or by international bank transfer.

The photograph on the cover is an image from the NPS documentary In Search of a Lost Application (2000) by Jacqueline Oskamp.