Kid a Mnesia: A Book of Radiohead Artwork -- Thom Yorke

<p>Whilst these records were being conceived, rehearsed, recorded and produced, Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood made hundreds of images. These ranged from obsessive, insomniac scrawls in biro to six-foot-square painted canvases, from scissors-and-glue collages to immense digital landscapes. They utilised every medium they could find, from sticks and knives to the emerging digital technologies.<br></p><p><br>The work chronicles their obsessions at the time: minotaurs, genocide, maps, globalisation, monsters, pylons, dams, volcanoes, locusts, lightning, helicopters, Hiroshima, show homes and ring roads. What emerges is a deeply strange portrait of the years at the commencement of this century. A time that seems an age ago - but so much remains the same.</p><p><br></p> <p/> <p/><p>A celebration of the Radiohead albums <i>Kid A</i> and <i>Amnesiac</i>, this book showcases more than 300 colour artworks. It features a dialogue between Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood about the creative process and a specially commissioned essay, Kid Alphabet, by Gareth Evans about Radiohead's body of work.</p><p>This is the first book from Radiohead of their artwork. It is publishing alongside a book of lyrics and scribblings, <i>Fear Stalks the Land!</i></p><br><p></p> <p/><br><p><i>Kid A Mnesia</i> is a 240 x 189mm hardback with a paper case cover printed in 5 colours on uncoated stock with debossing on the front and spine and a specially designed, peelable sticker. Inside, the endpapers are dyed b