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Beautiful losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture

on the occasion of the exhibition "Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture" ... Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Lois Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 13 - May 23, 2004, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, July 17 - October 3, 2004, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, February 5 - May 8, 2005 ...
Author: Search for this author Exhibition Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture <2004 - 2005, Cincinnati, Ohio u.a.> (compiler); Contemporary Arts Center <Cincinnati, Ohio> (compiler)
Year: 2010
Publisher: New York, NY, Iconoclast [u.a.]
Media group: Buch
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"Exhibition Title: Beautiful Losers. Contemporary Art and Street Culture Travelling exhibition: Tampa; Baltimore, Newport Beach, San Francisco, Cincinnati 2004/2005 Curator: Aaron Rose, Christian Strike" 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 more recent adherents Ryan McGinniss, KAWS, and Geoff McFetridge. Work in all conceivable mediums is included, plus reproductions of reamsof ephemera. The accompanying essays are contributed by a half-dozen writers who have championed these beautiful losers from the start. This paperback reprint includes more pages, more images, an exhibition checklist, installation shots from a variety of exhibitions, and an interview with "Beautiful Losers" advocate, Agnes B.

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Year: 2010
Publisher: New York, NY, Iconoclast [u.a.]
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ISBN: 1-933045-30-2
Description: 2. ed., 256 S., [16] Bl. : überw. Ill.
Tags: 90's, Contemporary Art, Graffiti, Graffito, street culture
Participating parties: Search for this character Strike, Christian (editor); Baker, Alex (writer of supplementary textual content)
Language: Englisch
Media group: Buch