Beautiful Losers Contemporary Art and Street Culture Paperback Pdf
Cute Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture (D.A.P./ICONOCLA)
The greatest cultural accomplishments in history have never been the result of the brainstorms of marketing men, corporate focus groups or any homogenized methods; they have always happened organically. More often than not, these manifestations take been the event of a few similar-minded people coming together to create something new and original for no other purpose than a common love of doing it. In the 1990s, a loose-knit group of American artists and creators, many just out of their teens, began their careers in just such a way. Influenced past the popular underground youth subcultures of the day, such every bit skateboarding, graffiti, street fashion and independent music, artists like Shepard Fairey, Marker Gonzales, Spike Jonze, Margaret Kilgallen, Mike Mills, Barry McGee, Phil Frost, Chris Johanson, Harmony Korine and Ed Templeton began to create fine art that reflected the lifestyles they led. Many had no formal training and almost no formulation of the inner workings of the art earth. They learned their crafts through practice, trial and fault, and expert old-fashioned innovation. Non since the Beat Generation accept nosotros seen a grouping of creative individuals with such a unified aesthetic sense and varied cultural facets. The world of fine art has been greatly afflicted past their accomplishments equally take the worlds of fashion, music, literature, film, and, ironically, athletics. Beautiful Losers is a retrospective celebration of this spirit, with hundreds of artworks by over two dozen artists, from precursors similar Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and Larry Clark, to more recent adherents Ryan McGinness, KAWS and Geoff McFetridge. Work in all conceivable mediums is included, plus reproductions of reams of ephemera. The accompanying essays are contributed by a half-dozen writers who accept championed these beautiful losers from the start. This paperback reprint includes more than pages, more images, an exhibition checklist, installation shots from a variety of exhibitions and an interview with Beautiful Losers advocate Agnes B.
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Harmony Korine was built-in in Bolinas, California in 1974. At 19, he wrote the screenplay for Kids, directed by Larry Clark, and subsequently wrote and directed Gummo, which won awards at the Venice and Rotterdam film festivals, and Julian Donkey-Boy, which won an honour for best art direction at the Gijon International Film Festival in Spain. He is the author of the novel A Crack Up at the Race Riots.
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Most of the work in this exhibition catalog is non beautiful by traditional standards. Nor tin can its makers, artists whose work is now displayed in museums and meridian galleries around the world, actually be considered losers. Yet the loosely affiliated group of skateboarding and punk music aficionados represented in this book seems to have a considerable amount of cachet invested in their outsider condition, their ability to see the beauty in being a "loser." Many of the painters, photographers and cartoonists in this book appear to exist taking a cue from the most famous insider/outsider of them all, Andy Warhol: witness Harmony Korine's photograph-collage of a disaffected Macauley Culkin, Terry Richardson's photo of a young man sitting on a toilet or a scarf design by Mike Mills titled "Fight Confronting the Ascent Tide of Conformity." The artists eat popular civilisation and then spit it back out in a highly personalized form to limited their alienation from the usual boogeymen (suburbia, capitalism, middle-class middlebrow civilization). Bucking the traditional art school road, these self-taught artists adopt a more than laid-back, "D.I.Y." ("practice it yourself") mental attitude. This approach involves doodling, spreading graffiti and taking snapshots of their friends naked. The book's accompanying essays characterize the development of these street culture artists with an absurdly exacting level of detail, the kind commonly reserved for the lives of geniuses who've been expressionless for at to the lowest degree 10, maybe fifty-fifty twenty years. And while the volume is excellently produced and the works in it are a lot of fun, information technology'due south difficult non to wonder if these artists bask posing as outsiders a little too much, particularly given their newfound success. 200 color & 200 b/w illus.
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