Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture

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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 have been the result of a few like 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 by the popular underground youth subcultures of the day, such as skateboarding, graffiti, street fashion 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 art that reflected the lifestyles they led Many had no formal training and almost no conception of the inner workings of the art world They learned their crafts through practice, trial and error, and good old fashioned innovation Not since the Beat Generation have we seen a group of creative individuals with such a unified aesthetic sense and varied cultural facets The world of art has been greatly affected by their accomplishments as have 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 like Jean Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and Larry Clark, to 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 have championed these beautiful losers from the start This paperback reprint includes pages, images, an exhibition checklist, installation shots from a variety of exhibitions and an interview with Beautiful Losers advocate Agnes B. Best Download Books Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture Author Aaron Rose – kino-fada.fr The accompanying documentary movie to the Beautiful Losers exhibit is currently available to stream on Netflix and is quite good.A great book that dives into the amazing world of the most beautiful side of the human race arts It is awesomely well written.I aslo have the DVD I think it would be biased to think that it sums up the underground art culture, but if you dig a little deeper, you can find that the dynamic portrayed in this book, in the movie in the differences of states, background and v...Amazing This book has helped propel me the last month Literally, back on a skateboard after being inspired here Great art and cultural discourse smashed together really giving a big picture of what went down in the 90s and 00 s regarding some of the greatest street and gallery art ...La mejor cr nica que he le do jam s de la cultura Do It Yourself.Many of my favorite artists be up in herr.This is a amazing book, that I went to the exibit at Yerba Buena Gardens Museum AMAZInGAmazing art book here I am going to purchase this one Great for the coffee table or a den of dissident s.scored off union square.Good one

Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture
  • English
  • 02 January 2018
  • Paperback
  • 256 pages
  • 1933045302
  • Aaron Rose
  • Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture