The graphic art of the underground : a countercultural history / Ian Lowey and Suzy Prince.

By:

Lowey, Ian [author.]

Contributor(s):

Prince, Suzy [author.]

Material type: Text

TextLondon : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2014Description: 272 p. : col. ill. ; 31 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780124160422 (hbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

709.0407 LOW 23 007402

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Table of contents

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction Chapter 1 - Remembrance of Finks Past: Kustom Kulture and Automotive Art Chapter 2 - Out Come the Freaks: The Emergence of the Psychedelic Underground Chapter 3 - Punk Graphics: The Subversion of Style Chapter 4 - LA Lure: The Weird and Wonderful World of Lowbrow art and Pop Surrealism Chapter 5 - Something Old, Something New: Designer Toys and Indie CraftingBibliographyIndex.

Summary: "The Graphic Art of the Underground: A Countercultural History showcases the visual art and design that has emanated from a series of iconoclastic, underground youth movements within Western pop culture since the 1950s, and which have challenged the perceived social and cultural complacency of the establishment.As such, it takes the reader on a colourful and provocative journey through the art of Californian custom car decoration (Kustom Kulture), psychedelia, underground comix and countercultural magazines, punk graphics, Lowbrow and Pop Surrealist art, designer vinyl toys and indie crafting. In doing so, it draws upon the work of an array of artistic figures - many of whose lives have proved as colourful as their work - such as Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth, Kenny 'Von Dutch' Howard (who gave his name posthumously to an internationally successful clothing brand), Robert Williams, Robert Crumb, Frank Kozik, Jamie Reid, Gee Vaucher, James Cauty, Barney Bubbles and Banksy, among numerous others"--

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-267) and index.

"The Graphic Art of the Underground: A Countercultural History showcases the visual art and design that has emanated from a series of iconoclastic, underground youth movements within Western pop culture since the 1950s, and which have challenged the perceived social and cultural complacency of the establishment.As such, it takes the reader on a colourful and provocative journey through the art of Californian custom car decoration (Kustom Kulture), psychedelia, underground comix and countercultural magazines, punk graphics, Lowbrow and Pop Surrealist art, designer vinyl toys and indie crafting. In doing so, it draws upon the work of an array of artistic figures - many of whose lives have proved as colourful as their work - such as Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth, Kenny 'Von Dutch' Howard (who gave his name posthumously to an internationally successful clothing brand), Robert Williams, Robert Crumb, Frank Kozik, Jamie Reid, Gee Vaucher, James Cauty, Barney Bubbles and Banksy, among numerous others"--

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