BEAUTIFUL LOSERS: CONTEMPORARY ART AND STREET CULTURE - LIMITED HARDBOUND EDITION WITH INSTALLATION PHOTOGRAPHS [Hardcover]

Aaron & Christian Strike, Editors. With Essays by Alex Baker, Thom Collins, Jeffrey Deitch, Rene deGuzman, Carlo McCormick & Jocko Weyland Rose (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Iconoclast Productions in Association with D.A.P. (Distributed Art Publishers) (2007)
• ISBN-10: 1891024744
• ISBN-13: 978-1891024740
• ASIN: B001QD6Q0I
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.7 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,902,621 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great pictures, great read, April 2, 2005

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L. Bennett - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beautiful Losers (Hardcover)

Its definately worth $25.17, or whatever price theyve stuck on it by now. Its includes pictures of, and interesting stories about a few of the Beautiful Losers aswell as full pages of artwork (in color). Its no picture book either, in addition to the stories, its got the histories of various subcultures that influenced the artists (skateboarding, graffiti, etc.) So it'll keep you busy for a minute.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Historicly important exhibition catalog with great essays., October 9, 2005

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Jonathan E. Dones (Detroit, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beautiful Losers (Hardcover)

Beautiful Losers exhibition is a document of an epoch centered on the twenty year history of street art and culture from the walls of urban landscapes across America to the walls of the dopest west and east coast galleries. Really great essays. Read the one by McCormick, its especially good. Well printed and designed. Everything in this book is imperative to know about if you are an artist, especially young artists in their formative years.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars its good to be a loser, October 30, 2007

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Michelle Robinson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beautiful Losers (Paperback)

ok- this book is pretty brilliant... despite the fact that the artwork included is a catalogue of some of the most important, interesting and (previously- time will tell??) underground /fringe dwelling artists and contemporary contributors in the last 25 or so years and that in itself is reason enough to love this book, you would be CRAZY not to read the essays... they are insane- so brilliant and you are not even touching the surface of this book unless you read them..
if you have any interest in graf/ skating/ contempory artists / beautiful things / whats going down then youll love beautiful losers and regret very badly that you didnt get to see the exhibition...like i am now.