Slang Aesthetics
Will be published approx. on 31. December 2015
Book
Hardback
72 pages
978-1-61404-012-5 (ISBN)
Description
An all-new collection of paintings and sculpture by art legend Robert Williams. First exhibited at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in early 2015, the work in this oversized, hardcover exhibition catalog is accompanied by insightful essays by the artist.
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"The current international capitol of artistic sophistication is New York City. Ever since the end of the Second World War, every small city in the United States that has an art community has
looked to New York for cultural parenting.
However, an interesting anomaly has developed over the years. "Sophistication," like any other folkway, travels slowly with misinterpretations happening along the way. By the time high
culture reached the West Coast it had traded its Brooks Brothers suit for cut-offs, a Hawaiian shirt, and flip-flops. Art on the West Coast, as much as it tries to maintain blue blood affectations shows mutations. It just doesn't have the aloof adroit coldness the Eastern Seaboard art society seems to portray." - Robert Williams, from his introduction to Slang Aesthetics
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"The current international capitol of artistic sophistication is New York City. Ever since the end of the Second World War, every small city in the United States that has an art community has
looked to New York for cultural parenting.
However, an interesting anomaly has developed over the years. "Sophistication," like any other folkway, travels slowly with misinterpretations happening along the way. By the time high
culture reached the West Coast it had traded its Brooks Brothers suit for cut-offs, a Hawaiian shirt, and flip-flops. Art on the West Coast, as much as it tries to maintain blue blood affectations shows mutations. It just doesn't have the aloof adroit coldness the Eastern Seaboard art society seems to portray." - Robert Williams, from his introduction to Slang Aesthetics
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Van Nuys, CA
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
Illustrations
72 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 309 mm
Width: 304 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
1142 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61404-012-5 (9781614040125)
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Persons
Robt. Williams has spent his career challenging the fine art establishment with an unrelenting onslaught of work too boisterous to ignore. His journey through hot rod culture, underground comix, punk rock, and East and West Coast gallery scenes has been revolutionary. In addition to shattering the boundaries of contemporary art through his provocative paintings, he has rallied a new generation of artists through the creation of Juxtapoz magazine. He is the leading pioneer of an unstoppable art movement that he has described as "Feral Art"...art that's had to raise itself out of the wilderness.