Beautiful Losers Contemporary Art & Street Culture Hardcover KAWS NEW! SEALED!

Description: Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture. Brand new in shrinkwrap! Hardcover exhibition catalog. 11 x 8.5 inches. Hardcover second edition of 500. Published by Iconoclast Editions. This is the limited edition hard cover version of the book. Edition of only 500. These were never released publicly or made available. The idea when we were doing the second edition (soft cover) was to do a small limited run of a hard cover version. The first edition was only published in hard cover. But with the second edition, we expanded the book by about 32 pages and included installation images of the show as well as some interviews - and we wanted a hard cover version of the expanded edition. This is a VERY physically substantial book; bigger and heavier than the others. 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. Over the years, the group has matured, and many have become more establishment-oriented; but no matter, their independent spirit has remained steadfast. 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 more recent adherents Ryan McGinniss, 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. WE COMBINE SHIPPING on multiple auctions, but shipping is based on exact weight, so if you are bidding on multiple auctions, you must pay at one time to receive shipping discount. WE SHIP WORLDWIDE, but buyer's are responsible for all customs fees and VAT upon arrival if applicable.

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