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T H E  B E R L I N  Y E A R S M A R C E L  D Z A M A - - - - Full color, on paper stock used by the artist for his original work; 13" x 10" ISBN: 0-9719047-8-2 Marcel Dzama is a very young Canadian artist who might very well change everything we know about art that involves alligators and men in bear costumes holding guns. Dzama is from Winnipeg, and his work shows frequently in New York and elsewhere. He is also the founder of the Royal Art Lodge, a Canadian art group that gathers around and creates hundreds of drawings in hours and sells them for $10 each. His book for McSweeney's will be in full color, on the paper stock he uses for his original work, and will feature paintings, drawings, and scrapbook pages. "Dzama's lucid pen and watercolor figures inhabit a place falling between surrealism and the Theatre of the Absurd. In a drama-less world comical circumstances imply a dead-end and dead-on deadpan. Nary a dull moment." - Artnet "Dzama draws freely on the Gothic adventures of the Brothers Grimm and the would-be-grown up sleuthing of Nancy Drew..., infecting the genres with a winsome and perverse horror that today seems fresh and new." - Art in America