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2019.10.20 19:26
가수 조니 미첼의 시와 그림 'Morning Glory on the Vine' 출간
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Morning Glory on the Vine: Early Songs and Drawings
Joni Mitchell
October 22, 2019
A gorgeous compendium of Joni Mitchell’s handwritten lyrics and drawings, originally handcrafted as a gift for a select group of friends in 1971 and now available to the public for the first time
In 1971, as her album Blue topped charts around the world, Joni Mitchell crafted one hundred copies of Morning Glory on the Vine as a holiday gift for her closest friends. For this stunningly beautiful book, Joni hand-wrote an exquisite selection of her own lyrics and poems and illustrated them with more than thirty of her original pictures. Handcrafted, signed, and numbered in Los Angeles, the existing copies of this labor of love have rarely been seen in the past half-century.
Now, during Joni’s seventy-fifth birthday year, Morning Glory on the Vine: Early Songs and Drawings will be widely available for the first time. In this faithfully reproduced edition, Joni’s best-loved lyrics and poems spill across the pages in her own elegant script. The lively, full-color drawings depict a superb array of landscapes, still lifes, portraits of friends, self-portraits, innovative abstractions, and more. All the artwork from the original book is included, along with several additional pictures that Joni drew of her friends from the same period. Finally, the refreshed volume features an original introduction written by Joni. Morning Glory on the Vine is a gorgeous and intimate keepsake and an invitation to explore anew the dazzling, visionary world of Joni Mitchell.
Review
"'Morning Glory on the Vine' feels like an extension of Mitchell’s already considerable reach—it’s a way of better understanding what she found beautiful, and worth holding onto. It is also a reassuring, almost palliative object on its own: these drawings and writings, arranged so artfully and carefully, feel like an anchor in an increasingly unsteady world. They worked that way for Mitchell, and now she hopes they’ll work that way for us." -- The New Yorker
About the Author
JONI MITCHELL is widely regarded as one of the greatest singer-songwriters of her generation. Her album Blue (1971) is often cited as one of the best albums of all time. Mitchell has won nine Grammys in various categories, including traditional pop, pop music and lifetime achievement. Born in Canada, she now lives in her longtime home of Los Angeles.
"나는 첫째로 화가이며, 두번째가 뮤지션이다...나는 항상 나 자신을 환경에 의해서 탈선한 화가로 생각해왔다."
-조니 미첼-
Joni Mitchell(Canadian, 1943- )
조니 미첼은 싱어송라이터이자 화가다. 1943년 캐나다 포크 마클레오드에서 태어난 그의 본명은 Roberta Joan Anderson. 어릴 적 그림에 소질을 보였다. 18세 즈음 에디트 피아프와 마일스 데이빗의 노래를 부르며 음악 활동을 시작했다. 삭스카툰기술학교에서 추상표현주의 화가 헨리 보닐을 사사한 후 칼가리의 알버타대에서 미술을 전공했다. 토론토에서 공연하다가 1965년 디트로이트로 이주한 후, 포크록 싱어송라이터로 명성을 얻게된다. 1967년 뉴욕에 정착, 1969년 'Chelsea Morning' 'Tin Angel' 'Both Sides Now' 등 명곡이 담긴 앨범 '구름(Clouds)'이 크게 히트했다. 1971년 앨범 '블루(Blue)'는 2000년 뉴욕타임스의 사상 위대한 앨범 25에 선정됐으며, 2017 NPR(국립공영라디오)는 여성 앨범 #1에 올랐다. 2006년 음악계에서 은퇴를 선언했다. 평생 그래미상 10개 트로피를 수상했으며, 2002년 그래미상 평생공로상을 수상했다. http://jonimitchell.com
