LG Williams At HI Gallery
Title | LG Williams At HI Gallery PDF eBook |
Author | LG Williams |
Publisher | PCP Press |
Pages | 72 |
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Genre | Art |
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LG Williams An Appreciaiton Catalogue Raissoné 1985 – 2001
Title | LG Williams An Appreciaiton Catalogue Raissoné 1985 – 2001 PDF eBook |
Author | LG Williams |
Publisher | PCP Press |
Pages | 408 |
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Genre | Art |
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Banksy Punked
Title | Banksy Punked PDF eBook |
Author | LG Williams |
Publisher | PCP Press |
Pages | 397 |
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Genre | Art |
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Obey
Title | Obey PDF eBook |
Author | Shepard Fairey |
Publisher | Gingko Press Editions |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Art |
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E Pluribus Venom collects a large body of work produced by Shepard Fairey and presented at the Jonathan Levine Gallery during his massive exhibition in the summer of 2007. The title, which translates Out of many, poison is derived from E Pluribus Unum (out of many, one) an early motto adopted by the U.S. Government which appears on U.S. currency. The artists thesis is that many becoming one, or a loss of power and influence of the individual in favor of homogeny is a symptom of a society in decline. The book is comprised of artworks designed to question the symbols and methods of the American machine and American dream and also celebrate those who oppose blind nationalism and war. Some of Faireys works use currency motifs or a Norman Rockwell aesthetic to employ the graphic language of the subjects they critique. Other works use a blend of Art Nouveau, hippie, and revolutionary propaganda styles to celebrate subjects advocating peace.
To Life!
Title | To Life! PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Weintraub |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2012-09-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0520273613 |
This title documents the burgeoning eco art movement from A to Z, presenting a panorama of artistic responses to environmental concerns, from Ant Farms anti-consumer antics in the 1970s to Marina Zurkows 2007 animation that anticipates the havoc wreaked upon the planet by global warming.
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Title | Corcoran Gallery of Art PDF eBook |
Author | Corcoran Gallery of Art |
Publisher | Lucia Marquand |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Painting |
ISBN | 9781555953614 |
This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.
Everyone Sucks
Title | Everyone Sucks PDF eBook |
Author | LG Williams |
Publisher | PCP Press |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2016-10-26 |
Genre | Art |
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"EVERYONE SUCKS" by LG Williams has an apocalyptic-looking cover and a title that needs explication. The book is not an aesthetic doomsday scenario, quite the contrary, as the explanation of the title will show. Williams, who is an unemployed surfer in Beverly Hills, completed this artwork in late 2002, and in it, he explains in a logical, well-considered progression why he believes that art is at a final resting point in progressive art history, and that that future art will render humanity as less than what it could be - comfort seeking, self-involved, "men without chests." The book, which could be subtitled "I Love Art and Why You Should Too", builds on LG's idea that there could be further, progressive art. This is what LG is referring to when he says that Art has reached its end; he doesn't mean that nothing else will happen, but that the progression of art history toward a universally beneficial system of brilliant nonsense has culminated in commercial mediocrity and bureaucrats. He defines mediocrity "as a rule of art that does not recognise individual genius or freedoms from forces of control, stupidity, and domination" and he defines those rights in three classes, wrong rights, commercial rights and left rights. But he cautions that Nietzsche believed in war and conflict as a way for humanity to express its passions, and that without conflict in the Jungian sense (LG says that great artist do not attack each other), humans will become soft, meaningless, and passionless. LG does not advocate that artist become "the last artists," even though in this volume, he believes the End of Art is near.