In the mid-1970s the influential stop-motion animators Stephan and Timothy Quay (born 1947) embarked on a series of dark graphite drawings, conceived as imaginary film posters. They kept their first autonomous art project hidden for decades, allowing only a few glimpses to transpire in some of their animation classics such as 'Nuctura Artificialia, Street of Crocodiles' and their live-project 'Witlold Lutoslawski--Paraphrase on: The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other'. In hindsight, the 'Black Drawings' can be considered as a blueprint for their future work. This book offers a first in-depth exploration of this important graphic series that reveals many of the themes and techniques that would come to life in their celebrated animation films

• Vingt ans juxqu'a la mort
• Ceux qui désirent sans fin
• Električka v Katedrale
• Château de Labonnécuyère
• Paysage plus loin que varsovie
• The goal keeper's anxiety at the penalty kick
• The trumpet through the elms
• The lover practicing hate
• First communion
• Jó Menö Szerelmesek
• Gégène-Le-Joyeux
• Guégamp-sans-gavotten
• Castle to castle
• Bagatelles pour un massacre
• L'Ecole des cadavres
• Kiev vs Wales
• The suburbs of long suffering
• Midday curfew (Cyrffew canol dydd)
• List of works: The black drawings
• Other illustrated works
• Exhibition history