Beautiful Losers Contemporary Art and Street Culture Paperback Forum Ebook
Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Fine art and Street Civilisation (D.A.P./ICONOCLA)
The greatest cultural accomplishments in history take never been the effect of the brainstorms of marketing men, corporate focus groups or any homogenized methods; they take e'er happened organically. More often than not, these manifestations have been the result of a few agreeing 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 grouping of American artists and creators, many just out of their teens, began their careers in just such a way. Influenced by the popular underground youth subcultures of the day, such as skateboarding, graffiti, street manner and independent music, artists like Shepard Fairey, Mark 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 most no conception of the inner workings of the art earth. They learned their crafts through practice, trial and mistake, and practiced sometime-fashioned innovation. Non since the Beat Generation take we seen a group of creative individuals with such a unified aesthetic sense and varied cultural facets. The earth of art has been greatly affected by their accomplishments every bit have the worlds of way, music, literature, movie, and, ironically, athletics. Beautiful Losers is a retrospective commemoration of this spirit, with hundreds of artworks by over two dozen artists, from precursors like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and Larry Clark, to more contempo adherents Ryan McGinness, KAWS and Geoff McFetridge. Piece of work in all believable mediums is included, plus reproductions of reams of ephemera. The accompanying essays are contributed by a 6 writers who have championed these beautiful losers from the beginning. This paperback reprint includes more pages, more than images, an exhibition checklist, installation shots from a variety of exhibitions and an interview with Beautiful Losers abet Agnes B.
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About the Author:
Harmony Korine was born in Bolinas, California in 1974. At nineteen, he wrote the screenplay for Kids, directed by Larry Clark, and afterwards wrote and directed Gummo, which won awards at the Venice and Rotterdam movie festivals, and Julian Donkey-Boy, which won an award for best fine 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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Nigh of the work in this exhibition catalog is not cute past traditional standards. Nor can its makers, artists whose work is now displayed in museums and top galleries around the world, really be considered losers. Yet the loosely affiliated grouping of skateboarding and punk music aficionados represented in this book seems to have a considerable corporeality of cachet invested in their outsider status, their power to encounter the beauty in being a "loser." Many of the painters, photographers and cartoonists in this volume appear to be 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 beau sitting on a toilet or a scarf blueprint by Mike Mills titled "Fight Against the Rising Tide of Conformity." The artists consume popular civilization then spit information technology back out in a highly personalized form to express their breach from the usual boogeymen (suburbia, capitalism, heart-course middlebrow culture). Bucking the traditional fine art school road, these self-taught artists prefer a more laid-back, "D.I.Y." ("do it yourself") attitude. This arroyo involves doodling, spreading graffiti and taking snapshots of their friends naked. The book's accompanying essays narrate the development of these street culture artists with an absurdly exacting level of detail, the kind normally reserved for the lives of geniuses who've been dead for at least 10, maybe even 20 years. And while the book is excellently produced and the works in it are a lot of fun, it's hard not to wonder if these artists enjoy posing as outsiders a trivial too much, particularly given their newfound success. 200 color & 200 b/w illus.
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