Stranger Than Kindness
Nick Cave
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A Sunday Times top ten bestseller. A journey in images and words into the creative world of musician, storyteller and cultural icon Nick Cave
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Stranger Than Kindness is a journey in images and words into the creative world of musician, storyteller and cultural icon Nick Cave.
This highly collectable book invites the reader into the innermost core of the creative process and paves the way for an entirely new and intimate meeting with the artist, presenting Cave’s life, work and inspiration and exploring his many real and imagined universes. It features full colour reproductions of original artwork, handwritten lyrics, photographs and collected personal artefacts along with commentary and meditations from Nick Cave, Janine Barrand and Darcey Steinke.
Stranger Than Kindness asks what shapes our lives and makes us who we are, and celebrates the curiosity and power of the creative spirit.
The book has been developed and curated by Nick Cave in collaboration with Christina Back. The images were selected from ‘Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition’, opening at the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen in June 2020.
“A scrapbook of rarely seen photos and sketches traces Nick Cave’s transformation from Aussie teenager into an international artist … It takes on a life of its own, revealing his often compulsive way of working, as well as his abiding interests and obsessions: desire, faith, sin, despair, redemption, grief, love, and the transformative thrust of language itself”
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“Goes deep into Cave’s creative process, via his artwork, lyrics and photographs, and his ever-succinct commentary”
guardian, 5 Of The Best
“A carefully curated collection of artwork, handwritten lyrics, photographs, personal possessions and essays, Stranger Than Kindness is a proper deep-dive into the story and creative processes of Nick Cave”
nme, Best Music Books Of The Year
“[Takes] us on a detailed journey into his creative psyche. It features everything from school reports and scribbled shopping lists to lyric sheets and handwritten dictionaries – “the secret and unformed property of the artist,” as Cave puts it”
evening Standard, Best Music Books Of The Year
“The material evidence of Cave’s creative life. [There is] an excellent introduction from Darcey Steinke … a book of beauty and understated style … The book serves best as an invitation to explore Cave’s work further, whether one is a novice or a committed celebrant. It is worth the effort”
herald
Nick Cave
Nick Cave has been performing music for more than forty years and is best known as the songwriter and lead singer of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, whose latest album Ghosteen was widely received as their best work ever. Cave’s body of work also covers a wider range of media and modes of expression including film score composition and writing of novels. His recent Conversations events and Red Hand Files website have seen Cave exploring deeper and more direct relationships with his fans.
Stranger than Kindness, the new collection from Nick Cave traces his transformation from Aussie teenager into an international artist. This book invites the reader into the innermost core of the creative process and paves the way for an entirely new and intimate meeting with the artist, presenting Cave’s life, work and inspiration and exploring his many real and imagined universes.
The Observer
The Observer
