Lowbrow Art Of Robert Williams

Author : Robert Williams
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1683960270
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robert Williams written by Robert Williams and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Williams: The Father of Exponential Imagination is a comprehensive career spanning, comprehensive collection of the iconic painter’s fine art, including every one of his remarkable oil paintings along with a presentation of his drawings, sculptures, and works in other media. Simply put, this is the art book of the decade, and the book that Williams has been working toward his entire career. In the late 20th and early 21st century, diverse forms of commonplace and popular art appeared to be coalescing into a formidable faction of new painted realism. The new school of imagery was a product of art that didn’t fit comfortably into the accepted definition of fine art. It embraced some of the figurative graphics that formal art academia tended to reject: comic books, movie posters, trading cards, surfer art, hot rod illustration, to mention a few. This alternative art movement found its most apt participant in one of America’s most controversial underground artists, the painter, Robert Williams. It was this artist who brought the term “lowbrow” into the fine arts lexicon, with his groundbreaking 1979 book, The Lowbrow Art of Robt. Williams. Williams pursued a career as a fine arts painter years before joining the art studio of Ed “Big Daddy” Roth in the mid-1960s. From this position he moved into the rebellious, anti-war circles of early underground comix, as one of the celebrated ZAP cartoonists. Featuring an introductory essay by Coagula Art Journal founder Mat Gleason along with a new art manifesto and foreword by Williams himself, as well as tons of rare photos and ephemera.

Author : Robert Williams
Publisher : Last Gasp
ISBN 13 : 9780867198904
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lowbrow Art of Robert Williams written by Robert Williams and published by Last Gasp. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reprint edition of the classic book of Robert Williams paintings, drawings and comics. This edition is enhanced with newer, more vibrant and accurate color images. This hardcover edition has a faux leather cover and debossed and tipped in cover imagery as well as foil stamping features. This book is the first to featuring the amazing artwork of Robert Williams, containing an overview of Williams's early work until 1979. T-shirt designs, comics, posters, and all paintings are accompanied by a text commenting on them and introducing Mr. Williams to the public. In the late 20th and 21st century diverse forms of commonplace and popular art appeared to be coalescing into a formidable faction of new painted realism. The phenomenon owed its genesis to a number of factors. The new school of imagery was a product of art that didn't fit comfortably into the accepted definition of fine art. It embraced some of the figurative graphics that formal art academia tended to reject: comic books, movie posters, trading cards, surfer art, hot rod illustration, to mention a few. This alternative art movement found its most congealing participant in one of America's most opprobrious and maligned underground artists, the painter, Robert Williams. It was this artist who brought the term "lowbrow" into the fine arts lexicon, with his ground breaking 1979 book, The Lowbrow Art of Robt. Williams. It was from this point that the seminal elements of West Coast Outlaw culture slowly started to aggregate. Williams pursued a career as a fine arts painter years before joining the art studio of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth in the mid-1960's. And in this position as the famous custom car builder's art director, he moved into the rebellious, anti-war circles of early underground comix.

Author : Robert Williams
Publisher : Rip Office Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896201156
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lowbrow Art of Robert Williams written by Robert Williams and published by Rip Office Press. This book was released on 1990-04-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matt Dukes Jordan
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811842419
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weirdo Deluxe written by Matt Dukes Jordan and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2005-03-03 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together work of leading Lowbrow and Pop Surrealist artists. With over 100 examples by two dozens artists. Provides a timeline of the movement with graphic artists profiles.

Author : Robert Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781614040125
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slang Aesthetics written by Robert Williams and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An all-new collection of paintings and sculpture by art legend Robert Williams. First exhibited at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in early 2015, the work in this oversized, hardcover exhibition catalog is accompanied by insightful essays by the artist. --- "The current international capitol of artistic sophistication is New York City. Ever since the end of the Second World War, every small city in the United States that has an art community has looked to New York for cultural parenting. However, an interesting anomaly has developed over the years. "Sophistication," like any other folkway, travels slowly with misinterpretations happening along the way. By the time high culture reached the West Coast it had traded its Brooks Brothers suit for cut-offs, a Hawaiian shirt, and flip-flops. Art on the West Coast, as much as it tries to maintain blue blood affectations shows mutations. It just doesn't have the aloof adroit coldness the Eastern Seaboard art society seems to portray." - Robert Williams, from his introduction to Slang Aesthetics

Author : Kirsten Anderson
Publisher : Last Gasp
ISBN 13 : 0867196181
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pop Surrealism written by Kirsten Anderson and published by Last Gasp. This book was released on 2004 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its origins in the 1960s hot rod culture and underground comix and rock music posters, Pop Surrealism/Lowbrow Art has evolved and expanded into the most vilified, vital, and exciting movement in contemporary art. Pop Surrealism is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of this movement featuring twenty-three of today's most important and interesting artists.

Author : Robert Williams
Publisher : Last Gasp
ISBN 13 : 9780867194180
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lowbrow Art of Robert Williams written by Robert Williams and published by Last Gasp. This book was released on 1994 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the first one featuring the amazing artwork of Robert Williams, has been unavailable for many years. The book contains an overview of Williams's early work until 1979. It features images from t-shirt designs, comics, posters and oil paintings.

Author : Robert Williams
Publisher : Last Gasp
ISBN 13 : 9780867193992
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Views from a Tortured Libido written by Robert Williams and published by Last Gasp. This book was released on 1993 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects 60 of Williams's paintings. Hot rods, monsters, girls in bikinis and taco stands are among the prominent elements. The chromatic chaos disseminated by Williams in this multimedia book is about as masterful as it can get in the wood-pulp page-trade. Heisenberg's SurRealities involved continual change and self-determined subjective, bizarre singularities. Introduction by Timothy Leary.

Author : Robert Williams
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conceptual Realism written by Robert Williams and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The painter Robert Williams brought the term "lowbrow" into the fine artslexicon, defining West Coast Outlaw culture into alternative art movement of thelate 20th century (the first break-away art movement in California since theEucalyptus School's estrangement from Impressionism in the late 1920s). Hiswork, which features bold use of underground cartoon figuration, paired withharshly contrasted psychedelic colors, spans through the "Big Daddy Roth" carculture of the early '60s, the underground comics movement led by Robert Crumbin the late '60s and early '70s, punk in the late '70s, to today: it became aneasily recognizable hallmark throughout the 1980s and 1990s

Author : Robert Williams
Publisher : Last Gasp of San Francisco
ISBN 13 : 9780867195163
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through Prehensile Eyes written by Robert Williams and published by Last Gasp of San Francisco. This book was released on 2005 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Williams' most recent 58 paintings ranges from Williams' familiar lowbrow biker culture, stretching deep into faux science of quantum mechanics, leaving the viewer in a world of scientific mind play. Robert Williams sprang from the custom car culture of Southern California and was one of the original Zap Comix artists. He transcended the constraints of both, mastering oils and forging a career as the pre-eminent artist among a generation of imagist painters. Williams has now penetrated the inner sanctum of the fine arts movement.