Blogcritics and Electric Artists are pleased to host a giveaway in conjunction with today's release of the new David Gilmour DVD, Remember That Night - Live from the Royal Albert Hall. One lucky winner will get a signed lithograph.
One critic described David Gilmour's On An Island Royal Albert Hall concert, as "a near-perfect gig, where the magic kept coming, as did the surprises." Now music fans, who may have missed Gilmour's 2006 tour, get a chance to share in that magic with the release of Remember That Night - Live At The Royal Albert Hall, a double DVD commemorating Gilmour's highly acclaimed SRO tour. Lasting more than five hours, Remember That Night - Live At The Royal Albert Hall includes Gilmour's rave-reviewed London concert — featuring special guest appearances from David Bowie, Robert Wyatt, David Crosby and Graham Nash — as well as over two and a half hours of extras, notably a revelatory fly-on-the-wall documentary following Gilmour and his band on tour. A 20-page booklet accompanies the DVD.
How to enter the David Gilmour Signed Lithograph giveaway:
- Fill out the entry form. link removed - contest has ended
- Only one entry per person.
- Entries must be received by October 9, 2007.
- Winner will be drawn after October 10, 2007.
- Winner will be notified by e-mail and in the comments section below.
Article comments
1 - Eva Pepitone
My mind cannot be spoken
2 - David
Thanks from a DG fan.
3 - Karima
Glad for the giveaway. I flew over the pond to attend DG's Royal Albert Hall gig and it was indeed a magical night.
4 - Gary Arseneau
Dear Ms. Creech:
The so-called David Gilmour lithographs, in your article, are non-disclosed reproductions being misrepresented, with or without intent, to help promote his upcoming DVD/concert.
Lithographs are an original labor intensive creative medium where an artist draws on a stone, plate or mylar. The image drawn by the artist is the tool. That tool is printed by the artist resulting in multiple original works of visual art ie. lithographs.
This is confirmed by U.S. Customs regulations Informed Compliance publication August 2004, which states a lithograph "must be wholly executed by hand by the artist" and "exclude all mechanical and photomechanical processes."
Now compare that fact to David Gilmour's website where his bio makes absolutely no mention of his knowledge or participation in the original creative medium of lithography.
Unfortunately, this is another example of abusing terminology for profit.
This abuse is confirmed on David Gilmour's website. In part, it states: "Something Good On TV Shock - 'David Gilmour In Concert' On Air .... which features several Ross Halfin lithographs, photos from the pre-tour sessions at."
Remember, lithographs are not photographs.
In closing, one could argue David Gilmour and others are unaware of the difference between a reproduction and a lithograph but that would be an explanation but not an excuse.
I hope you might consider publishing this post for full and honest disclosure.
Gary Arseneau
artist, creator of original lithographs, scholar & author
5 - Anna Creech
Mr. Arseneau,
I do not like the accusatory and haughty tone of your message, but I will try to not take it personally since you do not know me and I do not know you.
The signed lithograph in question is being provided by the company that is promoting the release of the DVD. I do not have the item in my possession, so I cannot personally verify if it is a lithograph or simply a photographic reproduction. The description was provided to me by the promotions company, and I must take their word for it.
6 - Gary Arseneau
Dear Ms. Creech:
Respectfully, I thank you for your reply.
If you want confirmation that the so-called "lithograph" being offered is a non-disclosed reproduction just ask the promotional company the following questions: "Is it from an original?"
If they state -yes-, that is a confirmation it's a reproduction and not a lithograph.
Remember, lithographs are original works of visual art and would -never- be trivialized as a copy of anything.
If they state: -don't know-, that is confirmation they don't know what they are promoting.
That response would not give one any confidence that they know what they are doing.
Once again, respectfully, these kind of deceptive promotions by many in the music industry of reproductions as lithgraphs for monetary considerations are too numerous to count.
So, please followup and ask and/or email those questions enclosed to the promotional company who gave you that description.
Their answers might make you reconsider your promotional position for this so-called lithograph.
Any questions or comments, please email.
I look forward to your reply
Sincerely,
Gary Arseneau
artist, creator of original lithographs, scholar & author
7 - steve the printer
Dear Gary the Arteest,
Apparently you never heard the term OFFSET LITHOGRAPHY, which, in common language, people call PRINTED LITHOGRAPHS.
Duh, this Gilmore thing is a poster not a fine work of art. Get a clue.
If you have to explain it, it aint art.
Frank Zappa said so.
Steve
critic of boneheads, phi kappa phi, plus many more REAL credentials that i dont need to pompously list.
8 - Gary Arseneau
Respectfully, you have a common misconception that even I at one time had. The following will document the clear difference between an offset lithograph and and reproduction
An offset lithograph is an original work of visual where the artist draws on a plate and that plate is printed, with their approval, on an offset lithograpic press. The result being original artist created offset lithographs.
A reproduction of a pre-existing work of visual art, such as a painting, reproduced on an offset lithographic press is a reproduction.
An offset lithograpic press is a tool. What is printed or reproduced with that offset lithographic press determines what it is.
That conclusion is once again supported by U.S. Customs regulations, U.S. Copyright Law, statutory law and independent documented definitions.
Gary Arseneau
garyarseneau.blogspot.com
9 - JONI CHADWELL
this is a really cool prize!
10 - Anna Creech
Congratulations to William W. (Maryland)!
11 - DoctorDee
Mr Arseneau, you repeatedly (and ad nauseum) quote that: 'Lithographs, like any original printmaking medium, are original works of visual art “wholly executed by hand by the artist” and “exclude any mechanical and photomechanical processes".' Let us ignore the essential illiteracy of your unintentional assertion that any printmaking MEDIUM is an original work of visual art, since this is clearly not true, and one must assume that you were referring to the product of any original printmaking medium.
Your thesis is based on a misquote, since the source material - a US Customs publication supporting the harmonised commodity codes system, states that "ORIGINAL engravings, prints and lithographs... means impressions produced directly, in black and white or in color, of one or of several plates wholly executed by hand by the artist".
This definition is purely for assigning the appropriate customs duty rate to a work of art and has no greater currency.
Indeed, the idea that an original lithograph or sérigraph must be "wholly executed by hand by the artist" and cannot include " any mechanical and photomechanical processes" would render many of the (original) works of Andy Warhol, Gilbert and George, Damien Hirst, and many other significant artists, as fakes by your definition.
The fact is, in very many of the cases where you take issue no deception whatsoever is undertaken, since the public is fully aware that the works are reproductions. Rather than tilting at windmills, you would do your cause much more justice if you restrained yourself to only complaining where deception was actually taking place, and if you did not rely so heavily (and so repeatedly) on a citation misquoted and taken out of context.