Anthony Goicolea [Hardcover]

Anthony Goicolea (Author), Jane Harris (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Twin Palms Pub; First Edition edition (December 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1931885117
• ISBN-13: 978-1931885119
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 12.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #777,843 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great book--but Amazon doesn't have it, July 30, 2004

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Clayton Doyle - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Anthony Goicolea (Hardcover)

This is a great book at a great price--the only problem being that Amazon doesn't actually have any to sell. I ordered this book in June (when the site offered shipping in 24-48 hours) and in their latest email they have pushed the delivery date to mid September. A phone call to customer service revealed they actually have no idea when or if they can get this book. I've had this problem before trying to order art books published in limited editions from Amazon. They'll never admit they won't ship something, so if you don't get your order quickly, I advise you to cancel and go to another source. They will never have this book in stock. You can however, still get it from the publisher, just not at Amazon's low price.

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Vignettes of Pubertal Narcissism Starring Sex and Aggression, February 17, 2004

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Christopher Schmitz (Rocky River, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Anthony Goicolea (Hardcover)

To open an art mag is to see so much art. Our world has become more and more visual in the last 20 years: MTV, Industrial Light & Magic, flashy product design... So little actually can be called arresting. Flipping through magazines, Anthony Goicolea's work actually caught my attention in the riot of color that is our modern world. Its themes are strangely diffuse but all very relevant: Our growing interest in male adolescent sexuality and aggression, our nervous anticipation of human cloning, our need to find the last taboo standing.

Goicolea's work is photomontage in which the 20something artist dresses and poses in such a way as to seem 13-15 years old. Usually, his photographs contain multiple images of himself as an early adolescent interacting with each other to produce the effect of a gaggle of boys doing boyish things. These might be anything: bullying, bare-knuckles fighting, masturbation, receiving Holy Communion, playing a prank, engaging in sport.

The photos are highly stylized, slick and beautiful. They appear a bit like movie stills of a film never made. It adds to their mystique that we are forced to fill in narrative around them. It is interesting the artist chooses to focus on early male adolescence, a time of isolation and transgression. The photos then are cool and distant while hinting at a roil of desire.

With his interchangable and narcissistic boy-clones/septuplets, Goicolea makes a statement about the closed world of the pubertal boy. His secret wants, his bewildering changes are kept to himself. The viewer looks on voyeuristically, never to truly enter the sexually febrile, wildly imaginative, wolfishly violent mind of our subject and his Doppelgangers.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars insane, February 6, 2004

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Brooke (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Anthony Goicolea (Hardcover)

off-the-hook beautiful. dark, satyrical, amazing and original
storytelling - painstaking composition,staging. an eye for
stark, whimsical truth.

highly recommended...