First comprehensive survey of the Pop Surrealism/Lowbrow art movement. With its origins in 1960's hot rod culture and underground comics, Pop Surrealism has evolved into a vilified, vital, and exciting art movement. Includes: * informative essays by art luminaries Robert Williams, Carlo McCormick, and Larry Reid * a forward by Kirsten Anderson * images from twenty-three of the movment's top artists including: Anthony Ausgang, Glenn Barr, Tim Biskup, Kalynn Campbell, The Clayton Brothers, Joe Coleman, Camille Rose Garcia, Alex Gross, Charles Krafft, Liz McGrath, Scott Musgrove, Niagara, The Pizz, Lisa Petrucci, Mark Ryden, Isabel Samaras, Todd Schorr, Shag, Robert Williams, and Eric White.
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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I do not come from the lowbrow culture ,whatever that is, and have never paid it any heed. But I came across this book and my eyes have been opened. This art is NOT what I had assumed - it's clever, thoughtful, insightful, and challenging. It has an in-your-face attitude which I think held me at bay for a while. But through this book I have learned to relax, to appreciate and to enjoy. Many thanks and much admiration to Kirsten Anderson for assembling this, and for including three short but effective essays by three painters who helped me discover a whole new world lying right before my eyes.
55 of 66 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Can't say enough terrific things about this, it's one of the best selections of modern art available. Yeah. I said modern art and not "outsider" art. Sorry kids, but that new crap we see in Artforum and in the big museums is the hellspawn of marketing, grant maggotry, the corporate world, and the new corporate academia. It has little to do with the natural evolution of Western Art. If it tickles you to think you're being a Bad-Boy/Girl/Whatever by liking this "outsider" stuff then you're falling right into their game plan, you're a niche market and they'll try to eat up this world just like they ate up "alternative music" in one big gulp. This art is the art of true Americans and that other yuck--the so-called mainsteam (which includes the pre-fab avant-garde nowadays no matter how middle-class titilating and naughty it be) is the Devils' work--the real Devil, the one that created Wal-Mart and George W. Bush.
Love this art, demand that your museums purchase it, rejoice in the fact that you'll never see some Ryden or Williams hanging in a corporate headquarters, sing Hosannas that some trendy art monkey with a Smith degree won't be writing pompous reviews using terms like "globalization" and "gender" about this stuff, wrap yourself in the red, white, and blue, and sing the Star Spangeled Banner! I just wish we could find some equivalent modern creative types with this kind of vitality in music and architecture.
(Recommended--read Paul Johnson's recent history of art, especially the bit where he talks about how the modern art world went all to hell because someone figured out how to market the bejesus out of it)
Love this art, demand that your museums purchase it, rejoice in the fact that you'll never see some Ryden or Williams hanging in a corporate headquarters, sing Hosannas that some trendy art monkey with a Smith degree won't be writing pompous reviews using terms like "globalization" and "gender" about this stuff, wrap yourself in the red, white, and blue, and sing the Star Spangeled Banner! I just wish we could find some equivalent modern creative types with this kind of vitality in music and architecture.
(Recommended--read Paul Johnson's recent history of art, especially the bit where he talks about how the modern art world went all to hell because someone figured out how to market the bejesus out of it)
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
What is 'lowbrow' art? This book attempts to assemble a collection of art from an ever growing movement of artists going against assumptions of conventional art. But don't you think this is a boring book of essays. Only the first few pages are text, the rest is pure visual feast, as it should be.
Shock-full of colorful art sometimes cartoonesque and always thought-provoking, this book is destined to become known as the first collection of artist works in the vein of Mark Ryden, Marion Peck or Liz McGrath.
Also, if you like this kind of art, don't miss out on the magazine Juxtapoz. If by now you haven't been properly exposed to 'lowbrow' art or 'surrealist pop' or even 'rebel art' as we're still struggling to name it, check out this beautiful book. You won't be disappointed.
We only wish the book was thicker.
Shock-full of colorful art sometimes cartoonesque and always thought-provoking, this book is destined to become known as the first collection of artist works in the vein of Mark Ryden, Marion Peck or Liz McGrath.
Also, if you like this kind of art, don't miss out on the magazine Juxtapoz. If by now you haven't been properly exposed to 'lowbrow' art or 'surrealist pop' or even 'rebel art' as we're still struggling to name it, check out this beautiful book. You won't be disappointed.
We only wish the book was thicker.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good buy
My friend took me to Mark Ryden's exhibit a while back, that was when I was first exposed to this pop-surrealism genre of modern art. The exhibit really blew my mind. Read more
Published on March 30, 2011 by dachi
5.0 out of 5 stars
Beautiful Book!
This is a beautiful book with gorgeous pictures of a vast array of artists. If you enjoy this type of art, get this book.
Published on November 19, 2010 by amye
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great history of Modern Pop Surrealism.
The book covers many artists. Gives a great overview of the pop surrealism movement.
Published on March 29, 2010 by Tyson
2.0 out of 5 stars
An Okay Introduction
An okay introduction to the genre, with some of the originators but too many of the copycats. Artists like Anthony Ausgang and The Pizz have been trying for years to be well known... Read more
Published on March 24, 2010 by S. Beal
1.0 out of 5 stars
Muddled Thinking...
This is the kind of book that helps perpetuate the sense of confusion. It is also a misleading title since it really has absolutely nothing to do with surrealism. Nothing at all. Read more
Published on April 8, 2009 by Athanore
5.0 out of 5 stars
Buy It Now!!
Many of what I consider to be the most interesting and thought-provoking artists of our time are compiled here. Read more
Published on August 17, 2008 by Bauhausaurus
4.0 out of 5 stars
trends of pop culture
It's on the surface and all over all around you. Mind as well take it in and enjoy it. Play with it. There isn't any escaping it really. Read more
Published on August 12, 2008 by 2 cents
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent
This is a great book. Lots of great featured artists with excellent examples of their work. If you have any interest in this style (lowbrow) art, you can't go wrong with this... Read more
Published on November 12, 2005 by MonCho
5.0 out of 5 stars
Our Times
Great book to get a well laid out view of the pop art of our times.
While the mainstream media ignores low brow art as if it doesn't exist, on the contrary it is very... Read more
While the mainstream media ignores low brow art as if it doesn't exist, on the contrary it is very... Read more
Published on August 2, 2005 by Sal Canzonieri
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent collection also known as Lowbrow Art.
Nice reproductions from the original paintings that I have seen from Gallery shows. Weirdo Deluxe is a similar book which I would recommend as well. Read more
Published on July 12, 2005 by J. Neill
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