Fink on Warhol

Fink on Warhol
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Publisher : Damiani Limited
Total Pages : 109
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ISBN-10 : 886208515X
ISBN-13 : 9788862085151
Rating : 4/5 (5X Downloads)

Synopsis Fink on Warhol by : Larry Fink

These pictures of Andy Warhol and his tribe were taken within a time frame of four or five days. The rest of the images in the book were taken between 1964-1968. America was in the Throes of a certain revolution, that revolution comprised of Civil Rights, anti-war, and anti-establishment. These elements were all extremely active. Warhol's significance was that he took what were iconic commercial objects and made them into clever art. He signified the Commodification of the art world, which was soon to come. Warhol personally floated on the periphery of haute couture society like a hummingbird married to a leech. That said, the pictures of Andy and his tribe represented here are just a small moment within his larger life.

Larry Fink

Larry Fink
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Publisher : Phaidon Press Limited
Total Pages : 136
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ISBN-10 : UCSC:32106018331667
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Larry Fink by : Laurie Dahlberg

An introduction to the 40 year career of the American photographer.

The Beats

The Beats
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Publisher : powerHouse Books
Total Pages : 97
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ISBN-10 : 9781576876893
ISBN-13 : 1576876896
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis The Beats by : Larry Fink

In the late 50s after an unsuccessful stint in college, Larry Fink dropped out and began an odyssey of hitchhiking through America. Striking out that great Beat mecca, New York City, Fink settled down on Minetta Lane with a chap who fancied himself a poet. Larry was quick to hit McDougal Street where he met Turk, Mary, Bobbie, Motha, Ambrose, Randy and Mike Stanley, and not to mention Hugh Romney (aka Wavy Gravy) and LeRoi Jones and so many more - they soon left New York to cross America for Mexico - in search of the freedoms of the road.

Culture Jamming

Culture Jamming
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Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 481
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ISBN-10 : 9781479806201
ISBN-13 : 147980620X
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Culture Jamming by : Marilyn DeLaure

A collaboration of political activism and participatory culture seeking to upend consumer capitalism, including interviews with The Yes Men, The Guerrilla Girls, among others. Coined in the 1980s, “culture jamming” refers to an array of tactics deployed by activists to critique, subvert, and otherwise “jam” the workings of consumer culture. Ranging from media hoaxes and advertising parodies to flash mobs and street art, these actions seek to interrupt the flow of dominant, capitalistic messages that permeate our daily lives. Employed by Occupy Wall Street protesters and the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot alike, culture jamming scrambles the signal, injects the unexpected, and spurs audiences to think critically and challenge the status quo. The essays, interviews, and creative work assembled in this unique volume explore the shifting contours of culture jamming by plumbing its history, mapping its transformations, testing its force, and assessing its efficacy. Revealing how culture jamming is at once playful and politically transgressive, this accessible collection explores the degree to which culture jamming has fulfilled its revolutionary aims. Featuring original essays from prominent media scholars discussing Banksy and Shepard Fairey, foundational texts such as Mark Dery’s culture jamming manifesto, and artwork by and interviews with noteworthy culture jammers including the Guerrilla Girls, The Yes Men, and Reverend Billy, Culture Jamming makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of creative resistance and participatory culture.

The Flamethrowers

The Flamethrowers
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 432
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ISBN-10 : 9781439142011
ISBN-13 : 1439142017
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis The Flamethrowers by : Rachel Kushner

* Selected as ONE of the BEST BOOKS of the 21st CENTURY by The New York Times * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * New York magazine’s #1 Book of the Year * Best Book of the Year by: The Wall Street Journal; Vogue; O, The Oprah Magazine; Los Angeles Times; The San Francisco Chronicle; The New Yorker; Time; Flavorwire; Salon; Slate; The Daily Beast “Superb…Scintillatingly alive…A pure explosion of now.”—The New Yorker Reno, so-called because of the place of her birth, comes to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art. Her arrival coincides with an explosion of activity—artists colonize a deserted and industrial SoHo, stage actions in the East Village, blur the line between life and art. Reno is submitted to a sentimental education of sorts—by dreamers, poseurs, and raconteurs in New York and by radicals in Italy, where she goes with her lover to meet his estranged and formidable family. Ardent, vulnerable, and bold, Reno is a fiercely memorable observer, superbly realized by Rachel Kushner.

Life is Paradise

Life is Paradise
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Publisher : powerHouse Books
Total Pages : 204
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105028471576
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Life is Paradise by : Francesco Clemente

An original Clemente aquatint etching, printed in Rome, signed and numbered, measuring nine by four teen-and-a-half inches, made especially for this edition of LIFE IS PARADISE; the trade edition of which is completely sold-out. Includes a specially printed slipcase just for this edition.

Maripolarama

Maripolarama
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1576872726
ISBN-13 : 9781576872727
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Maripolarama by : Maripol

From celebrated stylist Maripol this ultimate 'who's who' of the early 80s art, music and fashion scenes in downtown New York captures highly stylish, utterly inspiring and ultra vivid polaroid. As an image maker and stylist for Madonna during her 'Like a Virgin' days, Maripol relentlessly documented the movers and shakers of the early 80s through the lens of her instant Polaroid SX-70. This collection is for those with long memories and vast vinyl collections and also for the people who weren't there to see it firsthand.

The Imaginary Portraits of George Condo

The Imaginary Portraits of George Condo
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Publisher : powerHouse Books
Total Pages : 158
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ISBN-10 : UCSD:31822022079974
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Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis The Imaginary Portraits of George Condo by : George Condo

Essay by Ralph Rugoff In this journey through the last 30 years of Condo's distinguished career as an artist, early sketches and studies accompany their now classic transformations into paintings, offering readers a glimpse into condo's wickedly trippy world. Whether it's visions of Lucy Ricardo and Gomer Pyle, visual interpretations of the melodies of John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk, or a sci-fi universe inhabited by his iconic pod people, this work represents his distinctive and widely renowned style. 100 full-colour reproductions.

Ex Libris

Ex Libris
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Publisher : powerHouse Books
Total Pages : 152
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105114349454
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Ex Libris by : Ralph Gibson

An artist-printed signed and numbered silver-gelatin photographic print, eight by ten inches, inside a specially produced clothbound slipcase with a book signed and numbered by the artist.

Schapiro's Heroes

Schapiro's Heroes
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Publisher : powerHouse Books
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : UCSD:31822034256461
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Schapiro's Heroes by :

An extraordinary collection of behind-the-scenes photographs of famous people including Muhammad Ali, Robert Kennedy, Andy Warhol, Martin Luther King Jr, Jackie O, Barbra Streisand and Truman Capote, from celebrated documentarian Steve Schapiro. A rare and intimate glimpse of a major period of American history, photographed during the golden age of photojournalism.