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Football Dreams • Nearly 100 of British football’s major figures in surreal scenarios reflecting their personalities and events surrounding their careers
• A unique collection of digital paintings: some humorous, some poignant, others sharply observant • If they’re a name in British football in the last decade, they’re in there! • The book every football fan will want to own The book Football Dreams is a book of digital paintings, portraying nearly 100 of football’s major figures in settings that suit their images. Within these pages you will find Wayne Rooney dressed as a streetwise scouser in a burger bar; David Beckham crucified in front of a tower block estate following his 1998 World Cup send-off; Roy Keane as a Big Brother contestant; Jurgen Klinnsman as a German soldier proffering a football as a peace offering in the First World War Christmas truce and Ron Atkinson frantically dancing in the street at the Notting Hill Carnival to atone for his sins. These specially commissioned digital paintings, produced on a computer, have an uncanny photographic quality. Whether the illustration is of Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger as two grumpy old men, Brian Clough portrayed as a solitary drinker in a bar or of Frank Lampard as an Essex Man, it looks like the real thing. The artist has caught the essential nature of each character and you will never look at them the same way again. The authors Chris Lightbown was a football writer on The Sunday Times for twenty-five years, attending many World Cups and interviewing most of the major names in English football. Michael Bennett is renowned for his work in Private Eye, the Sunday Times and many other publications. Format: 276 x 216 mm 144 pages Binding: Paperback Illustrations: Full-colour digital paintings ISBN: 1 86105 853 5 Price: £14.99 |
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