Process Recess Volume 1: The Art Of James Jean Hardcover – April 19, 2005

This book really should go back in print. As a huge James Jean fan myself, i willing bought a second hand version for a few hundred dollars. I know.. I know.. very pricey decision but i thought it was all worth it. This book is actually very small, but contains a distillation of James's earlier works. It really gives you an insight into his ideas and developments during the earlier stages of his career, and let me just say that this guy was indeed incredibly talented. His sketches and earlier works reflect a surrealism and cross culture influence that is still prevalent in his newer and more refined works today. To sum up this book" Today i continue to struggle with the shape of things, imagined and invisible, to condense the spectrum of experience into technicolor. My conviction wavers: A step forward, a step back, indeterminate future and past- there is PROCESS, and there is a RECESS" - James Jeanthus the title Process Recess.

I am a huge fan of James Jean, I was very excited about purchasing this book. When I got it, I opened it, I did know It was a small book but I was disappointed about the quality paper. the printing quality is not good enough, you barely see the shapes and the excellent imagination of James Jean but not in great quality. It's a gorgeous book but the printing quality should be the best compared with the price…

As always JJ doesn't fail to impress and inspire. The book was smaller than I expected, I was too excited to get it I didn't read the full description.

When i first opened the box that contained this book, the Fed Ex guy was barely out the door, i was pretty excited, but i was instantly unsure of myself when i saw the format of the book. Small and thick. I started doubting that this was a good deal. I have been purchasing a lot of art books lately, and most are the large format books with huge pages. About a minute into flipping the pages of it though, all my fears and uncertainty were put to rest. This is a wonderful book. It is jam packed with art. Drawings, pencil, ink, paintings, mixed media, lots of finished pieces, but also lots of pages right out of his sketchbook. These sketchbook pages give you an intimate look at the artists work, you can see lots of ideas flowing, and that he fills every page with them. Being able to look at a fellow artists sketchbook is a very eye opening experience for anyone because you get to see the things that they do that dont necessarily make it into a gallery showing, or on a website, this is raw. I love that on some of the pages accompanying a nicely worked figure drawing, was a quickly written list of things he had done on that day, such as go to a gallery, and watch. " a beautiful mind." Again, just a peek into the life of this artist. Not only that, but he gives you a look at which materials he uses to create his works, from certain paints and mediums, to his cotton weaved sketchbook.If you know his work at all, you will love this book, if you dont, look him up on the net or just take a chance with this, you will most likely love it.I have shown it to a few of my artist friends and they have all inquired as to where they can get a copy. If i had to come up with a slight downside to the book, it is the size, and only because i would like to have this match up with the rest of the books on my self and perhaps be able to see the detailed paintings and drawings in a little bigger format. But this is digging for something bad because it doesnt even really bother me.

I first noticed James Jean's art on the covers of the Fables TPBs and I couldn't forget some of them. Beautiful paintings.So I decided to try this book but I had no idea how talented this guy is!What you get is 200 pages of pure beauty. Whether it's a sktetch, a painting, a collage or a writing, everything is gorgeous with details everywhere that makes you go back as soon as you have turned a page.Yes the format of the book is quite small but it's a nice object and you get A LOT for your money here.

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