Die Ente ist Mensch geworden - Das zeichnerische Werk von Carl Barks

Hardcover, 296 pages, ISBN 3-8118-5341-4

Wir sind Gottfried Helnwein zu grossem Dank verpflichtet, dass er die erste bedeutende Ausstellung von Carl Barks' Kunstwerken und den damit verbundenen Katalog ermöglicht hat. Gottfried Helnwein, selbst ein anerkannter Künstler, hat der Kunstwelt mit diesem Projekt einen grossen Dienst erwiesen, indem er über 300 Arbeiten des Künstlers für dieses wirklich bedeutsame Ereignis zusammengestellt hat.

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Nachts war mein Kinderzimmer in ein tiefes rotes Licht getaucht- meine Spielsachen, die Möbel, mein Bett, meine Hände: alles hatte die gleiche Farbe und schien aus demselben weichen Material zu sein. Als wären die Naturgesetze aufgehoben, schien alle Materie von innen heraus zu glühen. Die Ursache dieser roten Wundernächte war der riesige leuchtende Stern der Roten Armee auf dem Dach der Fabrik gegenüber, der nachts seine Glut in meine Kinderstube goss.

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English translation of "Erinnerungen an Entenhausen" ("Micky Maus unter dem Roten Stern")
Opening one of these comic books felt like seeing the daylight again for someone who had been trapped underground by a mine-disaster for many days. I blinked carefully because my eyes hadn’t gotten used to the glistening sun of Duckburg yet, and I greedily sucked the fresh breeze into my dusty lungs that came drifting over from Uncle Scrooge’s money bin.
I was back home again, in a decent world where one could get flattened by steam-rollers and run through by bullets without serious harm. A world in which the people still look proper, with yellow beaks or black knobs instead of noses. And it was here that I met the man who would forever change my life - a man who, as the Austrian poet H.C. Artmann put it, is the only person today that has something worth telling us - Donald Duck.

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11. July 1992
Grants Pass
Oregon
Helnwein visits Carl Barks in Grants Pass, Oregon, July 11, 1992

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(German translation)
11. July 1992
Barks: "Ja, mit so einem Geldspeicher kann man eine Menge Spaß haben."

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by Charsten Laqua

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25. July 2003
Generated by DVEGEN
A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe
This page contains a list of rare art that is printed in the first print of the German book "Wer ist Carl Barks" by Gottfried Helnwein, either in colour or greyscale.

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01. July 2003
www.eclectica.org
Donald Ault, University Press of Mississippi
Kevin McGowin
Helnwein talks with Carl Barks
For me, the real highpoint of Conversations is the 1992 interview with Gottfried Helnwein, the Austrian-born creative genius whom Donald Ault has justly called "One of the greatest conceptual artists of the past hundred years."
His interview engages Barks in a spirit of imagination and play, and Barks responds to it: What if there were a real Duckworld? What would its layout be?
If anyone can take this idea into the 21st century in current available media, it's Helnwein, whose surreal Duck portraits reveal a dark undercurrent probably always present to one degree or other in Barks's own work—Helnwein's ducks are surreal, haunting, yet strangely funny at the same time. A parody of the dark side of the comic, the work reminds one of Chris von Allsburg, WeeGee, Jim Jarmusch, David Lynch, others. And this is just where the influence is most obvious, in paintings of Donald Duck.
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Carl Barks: Conversations, Donald Ault, Ed.
University Press of Mississippi (2003) 238 pages

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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
September 01, 2000 - January 02, 2001
The Darker Side of Playland
Childhood Imagery
from the Logan Collection
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Helnwein and the Comic Culture

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