Posts Tagged ‘culture’

26
Oct

Feed Your Head: Weirdo Deluxe

   Posted by: Kenneth Rougeau    in Art, Artists, Books, art history

Feed Your Head:
Weirdo Deluxe

Weirdo Deluxe: The Wild World of Pop Surrealism & Lowbrow Art
Weirdo Deluxe:
The Wild World of Pop Surrealism & Lowbrow Art

“Lowbrow” it may be called, but high-profile best describes the cultural impact of this contemporary art movement. Found everywhere from wine labels & high-end bar accessories to major motion pictures, the visibility of this dynamic work has rapidly increased in the last few years to worldwide recognition and acclaim. Weirdo Deluxe is the first significant manifesto of the genre a riotous blend of pop culture, street culture, pop art, & surrealism and includes profiles of & interviews with 23 leading artists & hundreds of outrageous examples of their work. Special features include an expansive timeline, & peeks at the artists’ collections and influences. Weirdo Deluxe is at once a primer & lowbrow art sourcebook as well as a visual homage to pop culture.

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5
Oct

Feed Your Head: The Book As Art

   Posted by: Kenneth Rougeau    in Art, Artists, Books, art history

Feed Your Head:
The Book As Art
The Book as Art: Artists' Books from the National Museum of Women in the Arts

The Book as Art:
Artists’ Books from the
National Museum of Women in the Arts

Culled from over eight hundred unique or limited-edition volumes held by the National Museum of Women in the Arts these books explore the form as a container for ideas. Descriptions of the works are accompanied by colorful illustrations and reflections by their makers, along with essays by leading scholars and a lively introduction by the most famous book artist in our culture, best-selling author Audrey Niffenegger. The exquisitely crafted objects in the The Book as Art are sure to provoke unexpected and surprising conclusions about what constitutes a book.

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28
Sep

Feed Your Head: The ABC’s of Dada

   Posted by: Kenneth Rougeau    in Art, Artists, Movies, art history

Feed Your Head:
The ABCs of Dada
The ABCs of Dada (streaming art history documentary video)

The ABCs of Dada

The Dada movement was a protest against the barbarism of World War I, the bourgeois interests that Dada adherents believed inspired the war, and what they believed was an oppressive intellectual rigidity in both art and everyday society. Dada was an international movement, and it is difficult to classify artists as being from any one particular country, as they were constantly moving from one place to another.

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