Download or read book Futura the Art of R Black written by Rich Black and published by Dark Horse Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sparkling as polished chrome, slick as oiled leather, hard as a scorned woman's stare, the poster art of Rich Black is renowned for its elegant line, razor-sharp design and dark pulp motifs, creating an instantly recognizable synergy of cool elegance and hot eroticism. Rich Black's dark world is a steamy landscape of leggy sirens, gleaming bikes, spiked heels and leather-clad devils. Foreword by Brian Ewing, illustrator and designer for companies such as DC Comics, Hustler, Marvel, Vans Warped Tour; and well known as a poster artist for bands such as My Chemical Romance, Dropkick Murphys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and more!
Download or read book Art in the Streets written by Jeffrey Deitch and published by Skira. This book was released on 2011 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A catalog of an exhibition that surveys the history of international graffiti and street art.
Download or read book Misery Obscura The Photography of Eerie Von 1981 2009 written by Eerie Von and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2015-05-27 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the deepest depths of punk rock's 1970s primordial wastelands, through the stygian goth swamps of the 1980s, and on into the bloodstained arenas of 1990s heavy metal, Eerie Von witnessed it all. Beginning as the unofficial photographer for punk legends The Misfits and later taking charge of the bass guitar as a founding member of underground pioneers Samhain and metal gods Danzig, the evil eye of Eerie Von's camera captured the dark heart of rock's most vital and bleeding-edge period, a time when rock and roll was not only dangerous, but downright menacing. Eerie Von's lens has documented everything from The Misfits' humble beginnings in Lodi, New Jersey, to the heights of Danzig's stadium-rock glory alongside metal superstars Metallica. As well as an essential visual document of music history, Eerie's road stories of triumph and damnation bring to life an era the likes of which will never again be seen.
Download or read book Futuratwothousand written by Futura 2000 and published by Booth-Clibborn. This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Futura has been bringing the visual language of hip-hop & the street to a worldwide audience for over three decades. Now he has produced his first book that is an extension of his work.
Download or read book Futura 2000 written by Magda Danysz and published by Drago (Roma). This book was released on 2019 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1980s until today, including backstage images of the artist at work through the decades and his artworks. Catherine Carrie, who photographed Futura and the family over the course of 35 years, sharing it today to illustrate the life and art of one of the greatest artist nowadays. 'As abstract graffiti artist Futura opened doors to a new form of creativity, paving the road for the most important art movement of the century to blossom. His contribution and the way he inspired then generations of street artists turned him into an American legend. A legend who's very much alive and whose family spirit and values have never change, making him also one of the most gracious artists to work with' adds gallery owner Magda Danysz who has met with Futura in 1991 in her teenage years and has written numerous text about Futura's art.
Download or read book Never Use Futura written by Douglas Thomas and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's everywhere, including the moon (on the commemorative plaque left by Apollo 11 astronauts), Nike sneakers, the artworks of Barbara Kruger, Ed Ruscha, and Jenny Holzer, 2001: A Space Odyssey credits, Domino's Pizza boxes, Absolut Vodka bottles, and Red Bull cans. Richard Nixon used it for his presidential campaign, as did Hillary Clinton. Indeed, Futura is one of the most used fonts in the world today—the typeface of modern design—more so even than Helvetica. This fascinating book explores the cultural history and uses of a face that's so common you might not notice, until you start looking, and then you can't escape it. Douglas Thomas traces Futura from its Bauhaus-inspired origin in Paul Renner's 1924 design, to its current role as the go-to choice for corporate work, logos, motion pictures, and advertisements. Never Use Futura is illuminating, sometimes playful, reading, not just for type nerds, but for anyone interested in how typefaces are used, take on meaning, and become a language of their own.
Download or read book 1 000 Type Treatments written by Wilson Harvey and published by Rockport Pub. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 1000 instances of thoughtful type usage along with credits that note what fonts were used in the design. The photography focuses in on the typography so readers can get an up-close look at the work.
Download or read book Futura written by Futura and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most in-depth and comprehensive survey of the life and career of one of the pioneering artists of the original graffiti generation. Having forged his graphic style painting subways in New York in the late 1970s, Futura was among the first graffiti artists to be shown in contemporary galleries in the early 1980s, where his paintings shared space with works by Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Kenny Scharf. As the commercialization of street culture in the 1990s inspired collaborations with fashion and lifestyle brands, Futura's work moved toward a more refined expression of his abstract graffiti style. Commissions from era-defining brands such as A Bathing Ape, Stüssy, Supreme, and Mo' Wax saw his artwork canonized as an elemental component of the street aesthetic. Collected here, among never-before-published reproductions of earlier paintings and drawings, is an archive of personal photography and ephemera that reveals how integral Futura has been to the evolution of street art and culture. Guided through more than forty years of work, and with interviews with key players in Futura's career, this is at once a definitive monograph of a legend of contemporary art and an indispensable chapter in the history of graffiti.
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Download or read book Black Futures written by Kimberly Drew and published by One World. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A literary experience unlike any I’ve had in recent memory . . . a blueprint for this moment and the next, for where Black folks have been and where they might be going.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) What does it mean to be Black and alive right now? Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham have brought together this collection of work—images, photos, essays, memes, dialogues, recipes, tweets, poetry, and more—to tell the story of the radical, imaginative, provocative, and gorgeous world that Black creators are bringing forth today. The book presents a succession of startling and beautiful pieces that generate an entrancing rhythm: Readers will go from conversations with activists and academics to memes and Instagram posts, from powerful essays to dazzling paintings and insightful infographics. In answering the question of what it means to be Black and alive, Black Futures opens a prismatic vision of possibility for every reader.
Download or read book The Black Speculative Arts Movement written by Reynaldo Anderson and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contributes to Afrofuturism studies by focusing on the Black creative experience. Contributors analyze philosophies of utopia, art, music, and histories of visual resistance, and they critique noted works by authors and artists like Octavia Butler, Ralph Ellison, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Janelle Monae, and Colson Whitehead.
Download or read book Futura isms written by Futura and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of fascinating quotations from the legendary artist and graffiti pioneer Futura is a living legend—a world-renowned painter, designer, and photographer who was a pioneer of graffiti art and New York City’s “subway school.” His radical abstract work in the street and on canvas established him as a central figure in an important art movement that included Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Rammellzee, Lee Quiñones, and Dondi White. Futura-isms is a collection of essential quotations from this fascinating artist. Gathered from four decades of interviews and panel discussions, this memorable selection illuminates Futura’s thoughts on legal and illegal art, his influences, fellow artists, and the past, present, and future. He also offers colorful memories of his adventurous life—growing up in New York City, serving in the Navy, touring with The Clash—and reflects on how his experiences have shaped his art. Select quotations from the book: “Graffiti was a way for me to exist. I wanted the world to know my name. I wanted to be somebody.” “The essence of what graffiti is . . . is creating this identity and taking it to the public.” “My whole life, I think, I’ve been a nomad.” “I was always at home in the subway system.” “People say, ‘Let’s play within the rules.’ I say, ‘No—let’s break the rules a little bit.’”
Download or read book The Art Museum in Modern Times written by Charles Saumarez Smith and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling examination of the art museum from a renowned director, this sweeping book explores how architecture, vision, and funding have transformed art museums around the world over the past eighty years. How have art museums changed in the past century? Where are they headed in the future? Charles Saumarez Smith is uniquely qualified to answer these questions, having been at the helm of three major institutions over the course of his distinguished career. For The Art Museum in Modern Times, Saumarez Smith has undertaken an odyssey, visiting art museums across the globe and examining how the experience of art is shaped by the buildings that house it. His story starts with the Museum of Modern Art in New York, one of the first museums to focus squarely on the art of the present rather than the past. When it opened in 1939, MoMA’s boldly modernist building represented a stark riposte to the neoclassicism of most earlier art museums. From there, Saumarez Smith investigates dozens of other museums, including the Tate Modern in London, the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the West Bund Museum in Shanghai, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. He explores our shifting reasons for visiting museums, changes to the way exhibits are organized and displayed, and the spectacular new architectural landmarks that have become destinations in their own right. Global in scope yet full of personal insight, this fully illustrated celebration of the modern art museum will appeal to art lovers, museum professionals, and museum goers alike.
Download or read book Typeset in the Future written by Dave Addey and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A designer’s deep dive into seven science fiction films, filled with “gloriously esoteric nerdery [and] observations as witty as they are keen” (Wired). In Typeset in the Future, blogger and designer Dave Addey invites sci-fi movie fans on a journey through seven genre-defining classics, discovering how they create compelling visions of the future through typography and design. The book delves deep into 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Alien, Blade Runner, Total Recall, WALL·E, and Moon, studying the design tricks and inspirations that make each film transcend mere celluloid and become a believable reality. These studies are illustrated by film stills, concept art, type specimens, and ephemera, plus original interviews with Mike Okuda (Star Trek), Paul Verhoeven (Total Recall), and Ralph Eggleston and Craig Foster (Pixar). Typeset in the Future is an obsessively geeky study of how classic sci-fi movies draw us in to their imagined worlds.
Download or read book Digital Deli written by Marco Scozzaro and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital Deli explores the current visual vernacular and the circulation of images. In its layered architecture, the book expands the conventional structure of the page spread and sequencing as a narrative strategy. By juxtaposing images of different sizes, each photograph creates associations with fragments from other pages and becomes the texture of a new and complex image, that is more than the sum of all the photographs in the book. Through Digital Deli I comment on mainstream media and consumer culture. I appropriate the language of advertising, television, and social media to create playful but uncanny tableaus that question the rhetoric and the power structures behind that language.Ultimately the book investigates the identity of photography and challenges its conventions and the related expectations of the viewer.
Download or read book Parthian Words written by Storm Jameson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short book offers the dispassionate but sharp-tongued comments on the novel, by an old fiction hand, a personal exercise of taste and judgment, backed by a life interest in the history and methods of literary criticism. It reviews the evergreen question of the death of the novel, so often and confidently announced; the difficulties, peculiar to our nihilistic and often brutal age, that press on the contemporary novelist; the effect on him and his work of the technological revolution; his increasing diffidence in face of the overwhelming prestige of science in our day; the changing language of fiction; the novel as an art form; the nouveau roman, and its most sophisticated and more esoteric cousin, the nouvelle critique; the eruption into common daylight of pornographic fiction; the use and misuse of censorship. It attempts to decide whether the traditional or classic novel has a future and what sort of future. Though it may offend a great many solemn persons it has not been written to give offence, but in a serious effort to reach some positive conclusions about the health, the moral and aesthetic worth, of the novel in a day when our minds are, as never before, at the mercy of their worst dreams.
