This past August, Century Guild exposed Clive Barker fans to the grand creator's hauntingly beautiful paintings and drawings crafted from 1993 – 2012 in Imaginer. Now they are diving back into Clive's incredible imagination and extraordinary dreamscapes with Imaginer 2, another 208-page collection of the legendary artist's creations that you can help bring to fruition via its Kickstarter campaign.
Launched by Thomas Negovan, the Kickstarter campaign for Imaginer 2 is underway and gaining steam. Century Guild is looking to make a beautifully bound book with an identical format to Imaginer, with over 75 new image captures of Clive Barker's artworks.
If the fundraising goal of $13,000 is met by November 2nd, then 1,000 limited edition hardcover copies of Imaginer 2 will be printed, with "100 special signed and numbered bookplate editions" also produced. If preorders through the Kickstarter campaign exceed 1,000 and 100 for the respective editions, then more will be printed to accommodate everyone.
Like its predecessor, Imaginer 2 includes over 75 artworks and 208 pages in a large format of 10″ by 13.” The captured images are completely new and feature the highest resolution ever printed of the master of horror’s artwork. Here is the official announcement from Century Guild (via Kickstarter):
"CLIVE BARKER: IMAGINER, VOLUME TWO
For over twenty years the imagination of Clive Barker has been hailed as a genius by a generation of creatives including such notable visionaries as Stephen King and Guillermo del Toro. But where does Clive Barker find his primal inspiration?
Clive has said from his first interviews that he keeps a brush and ink next to his bed to capture fragments of dreams, and that his stories originate as visuals first- the works on canvas are more often than not Clive's inital introduction to the characters and universes that he then picks up a pen to illuminate. The most recent example of this is his world of Abarat:
"I'm painting these pictures in the expectation that... interesting, strange characters and landscapes will come into my mind and into my mind's eye and appear on the canvas through the brush. There is something willfully strange about this process- that you stand back at the end of a night's work and you look at something and you say, 'Where did that come from?' I mean, I'm not the only artist who does that - lots of artists do that, I know. And it's been wonderful because if I had created Abarat from words- if I'd written Abarat and then illustrated it... it would not be anything like as rich or as complex or as contradictory a world as it is. Because this is a world which has been created from dream visions... What I'm doing is finding stories that match the shape of my dreams."
IMAGINER 1 was the first comprehensive volume documenting the artwork of Clive Barker; the format of IMAGINER 2 is identical- with all new words and images. Featuring over 75 artworks and 208 pages, the book will be a gorgeous large format of 10" x 13" inches. The book is composed of entirely ALL NEW and ULTRA HIGH RESOLUTION image captures, painstakingly color corrected to the original paintings. The detail is impeccable, and Clive flatteringly described the difference in the detail and accuracy of the new captures to any previously printed ones as the difference between "chalk and cheese".
This is an art book of the highest quality, and is being created with the utmost attention to detail to present the artwork as though you were witnessing the paintings in person.
The purest, most direct path from the raw creative mind of Clive Barker to our world is through his artworks. We are in the process of exhuming and documenting a lifetime of genius; these artworks are the origin points of characters we recognize, and hold hints of stories yet to come. ALL PROFITS FROM IMAGINER and our EDITION PRINTS will be put directly towards the archiving of the artworks, journals, and manuscripts of Clive Barker.
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Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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