Carouschka's Tickets is at once a museum of objects, a record of movement, a catalog of graphic form and typography, and a concentrated experience of travel. Hundreds of plane tickets, train tickets, airline baggage tags, bus transfers, taxicab receipts, parking permits, and other bits of travel ephemera from 70 countries are displayed against rich fields of color. Travelers' thoughts and ...
+ Bay Area Figurative Art: 1950-1965 + For all.. but best for artists
I had the opportunity to see this show in Philadelphia and it absolutely blew me away. Not only does it include Richard Diebenkorn's best work, but it also includes work by Paul Wonner, Elmer Bischoff, Manuel Neri, Nathan Oliveira and David Park (among others). I have drawn endless inspiration ...
" Horizontality and Perpendicularity" documents the various places visited by Japanese artist On Kawara through his projects "I GOT UP" and "I WENT ", ongoing projects begun in 1968. "I GOT UP" consists of stamped postcards--stating time, venue, sender, and addressee--sent twice a day by Kawara from cities all over the world to friends and acquaintances. "I WENT" documents the distances covered ...
Hello potential Amazon customer. If you've read this far you already know what the book you're contemplating forking over your hard-earned dough is about. It's a coffee table book, right? About a graffiti artist, yes? That will either appeal to you on those merits or it won't. But there's ...
With full-page representations of postage stamp art
+ innovative, daring, fine art
This lavish oversized paperback is packed with full-page representations of postage stamp art, while accompanying text provides a postal history of stamp art. From early postal system stamps to the evolution of the stamp as a work of art, Stamp Art & Postal History Of Michael Thompson and Michael ...
Addressing the Rauschenberg posters, I had expected more on the earlier years, particularly the civil rights posters and processes, and I was disappointed. But that not withstanding, you will find much rich material and insights which make this books worth owning.
Peter Blake (b. 1932) was a pioneer of the Pop art movement in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. His interest in and appropriation of popular culture, as seen in his portraits of movie and pop stars and his re-creations of commercial packaging, predated Warhol. In 1967 he created one of the most famous icons of the era, the cover of The Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. ...
It would be unfortunately difficult to identify the last time I was confronted with artwork so powerful that I found myself stopping mid-sentence to examine it. Where Barbara Kruger's work is moving, Jenny Holzer is compelling to the point of aggressiveness. The work Holzer's presents in ...
+ Is It Possible to Capture Ray Johnson in One Book?
This book is exactly what I was looking for, a nice compliment to the mail art piece of Johnson's that I recently purchased. Shipping didn't take too long. Great transaction!
The African (usually Nigerian) scammer letter has become iconic in western culture over the past 20 years. In the 80's I got letters in the mail, in the 90's it was faxes, and these days e-mails of course. There has been plenty of coverage about horror stories connected with these letters, that ...
+ a little history from the streets of the big apple
When I heard John Evans was going to have a book published on his unique and beautiful collages, I eagerly awaited it's arrival. It was worth the wait and I can say it did not disappoint! Enjoy the vibrancy of his work while taking a stroll through history beginning in the 70's. His ability to ...
Part master craftsman, part zen-master. Part philosopher, part clown. This book deserves five stars because of its subject: Ray Johnson. Finally the world is treated to a decent monograph about this very important American artist and that is reason enough to run out and buy it while it's still on ...
Grip is a fascinating collection of drawings, photographs, cartoons and writings by one of Britainīs most popular and controversial new artists. As an artist whose dominant aesthetic is the raw, stripped-down vernacular of graffiti, doggerel, cartoon and frank confrontational prose, the humor in his work draws on and incorporates religious allegory and pivots on the deep absurdities inherent in ...
I'd better admit something before I start this review. I'm a friend of Istvan Banyai. We've been known to drink aviator cocktails in New York bars. We've laughed a lot. Both before taking off with the aviators and also in flight. Minus Equals Plus is a portfolio of Istvan's illustration work. On a ...
An odd, fun visually embellished collection evolves
+ My new best friend + Droll Art Book Communicates With the WorlD BeyonD
Presented in the visual postcard style of Griffin And Sabine, Postal Seance: A Scientific Investigation Into The Possibility Of A Postlife Postal Existence is a fun hypothesis where author/illustrator Henrik Drescher wonders about the ability of inhabitants of the afterworld to receive letters ...
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