Customer Reviews

Morning Wood

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This is a massive collection of "alternative art". I can't recommend this book highly enough. It works as a reference for up and coming "outsider art", an inspirational tool for artists, or straight-up eye candy for your dome.
There's a strong connection between all of the art in the book even though the contributors come from diverse backgrounds. "Graduates from the school of graffiti" such as ESPO, SABER, & WISE are well represented, but there are also some fine photographers like Dave Schubert, Cynthia Connolly and Carlos Batts here too. On top of this there's a strong showing from a new crop of artists that don't really fit in to the the mainstream, but transcend the Juxtapoz definition of outsider art like Ben Woodward from Space 1026 in Philadelphia. A few old skool contributors like Ricky Powell, Jamie Reid and John Pound round out the collection nicely. 50 artists and bios, more than 300 pages, what's not to like...

This jawn is A+. It is the first time I have heard of a few of these cats, but I can dig it...

Excellent book if you are into street art/graffiti! Tons of today's best artists! Highly recommended.

I'm really admiring Roger Gastman and all the artists from New Image Art Gallery. So when I decided to buy this book is because I think this book quitely seems like that Vitamin P book (from Phaidon?) for the low brow art, and yes it is. The only thing that make me didn't give 5 stars is because the example of the art works from each artists are very few, c'mon... we need more...