Download or read book LG Williams Band Aids At FUCKTHATGALLERY written by LG Williams and published by PCP Press. This book was released on 2003-12-31 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something has a great effect on everything. It gives great emphasis. And, hey, did you know there's a line on a box of Band-Aids that says: Greater comfort and flexibility! — LG Williams On September 25, 2009, FUCKTHATGALLERY will inaugurate a new avant-garde contemporary art venue in Waikiki with an exhibition of new wall installations by LO Williams entitled "Band-Aids 8." Williams has made many significant exhibitions with galleries and museums all over the world and was the subject of the major traveling European retrospective survey "LG Williams: No Way, Way, Which Way, Anyway You Gotta Be Kidding" initiated by Tate Modern, London in 2008, which traveled by land and sea and the dance of the honeybee (via The Tao of Physics) to the Guggenheim Bilbao and Museum of Modern Art Rome in 2009. Two major museum exhibitions "LG Williams: Go To The Beach, Kiss An Ass, And Ass Kiss The Fucking Natural World Goodbye, Selected Works 2950-2007 BCE," that inaugurated the new wing of The Art Institute of Chicago and "LG Williams: Sensations Of The Smart Fart Moment" at Museo Museum Um Moderner Kitty-Kant Kunst, Vienna Hot Dog, runs until October 11, 2009. An exhibition of new furniture sculptures will open at FUCKTHATGALLERY in December.

Download or read book My Fists R Free written by Raymond Pettibon and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new volume in the PCP Press 'Editions Du Piràtes' poetry series explores Pettibon's Twitter poetry, written between November 27, 2012 - July 28, 2016.Appearing for the first time in a PCP Press paperback edition, my fists r free combines 186 Twitter poems from Pettibon's Twitter account. Included are such favorites as "More Oral?", "I play golf w/Truympf n OJ. Both cheaters" and "Balls Don't Lie," along with the usual Pettibon dazzle of satirical exposition, love poems, and syntactical provocations.In the landmark volume of Raymond Pettibon's monumental Twitter masterpiece, the character Raymond Pettibon moves to Twitter, where, having left his wife, he leads a solitary artistic existence. He strikes up a deep friendship with other Twitter followers, including Nietzschean intellectuals and baseball fanatics. He also tracks down major and minor figures of Western Civilization and Culture, past and present, who fascinates him deeply.my fists r free is at heart an art love story―the story of Petition falling in love with his artistic gifts. But this poetry also tells other stories: of becoming a father, of the turbulence of family life, of outrageously unsuccessful attempts at creative vacations, of the emotional strain of art gallery parties for art admirers, and of the daily frustrations, rhythms, and distractions of city life keeping him from (and filling) his gifts.This landmark publication is a brilliant work that delivers on the unlikely promise that many hundreds of pages later, readers will be left breathlessly demanding more from this unrivaled American poet. Raymond Pettibon (born Raymond Ginn; June 16, 1957, in Tucson, Arizona) is an American artist who lives and works in New York City. Pettibon came to prominence in the early 1980s in the southern California punk rock scene, creating posters and album art mainly for groups on SST Records, owned and operated by his older brother, Greg Ginn. He has subsequently become widely recognized in the fine art world for using American iconography variously pulled from literature, art history, philosophy, and religion to politics, sport, and sexuality. Lawrence Graham Williams III (born LG Williams; April 1, 1969, in Shell Knob, Missouri in The Ozarks Mountains in Northeastern Arkansas) received his B.A. from The Kansas City Art Institute, M.F.A. from University of California, Davis, and Honorary Ph.D. from Institute of Subversive Art and Analysis (ISSA), Cedar Rapids, IA.

Download or read book Bosoms and Bottoms written by LG Williams and published by PCP Press. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bosoms and Bottoms, a series of photographs and large-scale artist book by LG Williams, records the activity of the artist in Hawaii when he was wary of surfing dangerously large waves in the winter swells of 2001-2002. With a small digital camera, LG, in his words, "used this camera as a way of documenting beautiful areas of the beach, not fully appreciated, over-looked, or discarded." Two hundred and thirteen photographs reveal facets of LG's walk along the beautiful beaches of Waikiki. His camera caught everything up-close and personal: bosoms and bottoms, thongs and towels, along with other images indicative of Hawaii's tropical scenery. LG caught many bright flashes of movement with his lens, like a hand covering a bellyring with suntan lotion, or striking head-on images of sunbathers, eyes glowing as they bask in the sun. References to the artist's imaginative process implicit in Bosoms and Bottoms invokes certain early pieces of the artist's work from of the late 1990s, when he directed his focus to pursuing representative images in his Southern California Bel Air studio. For Year in Rearview (1997), LG committed himself to making one hundred ephemeral condom photos in a year. His series of paintings from this time, such as End of a Legend (1999) and The Bottom Line and The Position Paintings (2000-2001), were also conceived in this studio and involve one long concentrated activity repeated in provocative and suggestive ways. Today, many consider LG among the elite pioneers working in the visual arts. In his current involvement with incidents ostensibly both banal and pointed, he reverts to a recurrent theme in his oeuvre that has consistently proven as deceptive as it is alarming. More information can be found at www.BosomsAndBottoms.com # # # # #

Download or read book Everyone Sucks written by LG Williams and published by PCP Press. This book was released on 2016-10-26 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "EVERYONE SUCKS" by LG Williams has an apocalyptic-looking cover and a title that needs explication. The book is not an aesthetic doomsday scenario, quite the contrary, as the explanation of the title will show. Williams, who is an unemployed surfer in Beverly Hills, completed this artwork in late 2002, and in it, he explains in a logical, well-considered progression why he believes that art is at a final resting point in progressive art history, and that that future art will render humanity as less than what it could be - comfort seeking, self-involved, "men without chests." The book, which could be subtitled "I Love Art and Why You Should Too", builds on LG's idea that there could be further, progressive art. This is what LG is referring to when he says that Art has reached its end; he doesn't mean that nothing else will happen, but that the progression of art history toward a universally beneficial system of brilliant nonsense has culminated in commercial mediocrity and bureaucrats. He defines mediocrity "as a rule of art that does not recognise individual genius or freedoms from forces of control, stupidity, and domination" and he defines those rights in three classes, wrong rights, commercial rights and left rights. But he cautions that Nietzsche believed in war and conflict as a way for humanity to express its passions, and that without conflict in the Jungian sense (LG says that great artist do not attack each other), humans will become soft, meaningless, and passionless. LG does not advocate that artist become "the last artists," even though in this volume, he believes the End of Art is near.

Download or read book The Art of Art History written by Donald Preziosi and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology is a guide to understanding art history through critical reading of the field's most innovative and influential texts, focusing on the past two centuries.

Download or read book In the Aftermath of Art written by Donald Preziosi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By juxtaposing issues and problems, Donald Preziosi's latest collection of essays, In the Aftermath of Art, opens up multiple interpretive possibilities by bringing to the surface hidden resonances in the implications of each text. In re-reading his own writings, Preziosi opens up alternatives to contemporary discourses on art history and visual culture. A critical commentary by critic, historian, and theorist Johanne Lamoureux complements the author's own introduction, mirroring the multiple interpretations within the essays themselves.

Download or read book Wasted Words written by Dave Hickey and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between June 2014 and April 2015, Dave Hickey posted almost 3,000 digital comments on social media, prompting nearly 700,000 words in response from art lovers, acolytes, and skeptics. Wasted Words is an unedited comprehensive transcript of these exchanges. This polyphonic digital discourse reveals the range of Hickey's strong opinions, as he embarks on a crypto-enlightenment project for the benefit of "dunces" and "pricks." Dave Hickey's digital writings highlight the impact of digital technology on culture, while allowing a more intimate glimpse of their author. These writings reveal the well-known critic in a creative-informal, rather than critical-formal, mode. Not only do they flesh out many of the ideas elucidated in Hickey's essays on art, but they also cover a variety of topics, including the year 1972, Texas Eagle Scouts, and Hickey's own academic misadventures.

Download or read book Kingdom of Back written by LG Williams and published by PCP Press. This book was released on 1986-08-09 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LG WILLIAMS's place among the great emerging artists of this last decade is firmly established. These thirty-two poems, written over a period of six weeks, show conclusively that his work is remarkably original, versatile and powerful. He writes poignantly of things he cherishes - art, women, sex, drugs and rock-and-roll. Whatever his subject, he addresses it with an artist's resonant sophistication, a scholar's precision, and the persuasive powers of a great poet. This volume has been selected by Jenny Saybaugh, literary critic and one-time visiting professor at the University of California, Davis. "To read LG is not to agree or disagree with his strange sensibility, but rather to enter the enchanting moments of a fertile imagination." - Don Ryan, Surfer. "Ranging from near to far, these remarkable passionate writings...function as a savvy handbook into one of the best minds of a generation." - Wally Hedrick, Artist.

Download or read book The Story of Art Workbook written by L. G. Williams and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story Of Art Workbook is designed specifically to accompany the classic text, The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich. This supplemental drawing workbook has roughly 400 assignments to help students get the most they can out of The Story of Art, and out of their art history and art appreciation courses. The workbook challenges students to undertake fun-to-­do drawing excersises that help them experience and understand the concepts firsthand, before or after they've read about in the textbook. As a supplemental workbook, The Story Of Art Workbook uniquely addresses the most pressing paradox that currently exists in every college and university Art Appreciation and Introductory Art History classroom in the United States. Namely, the seminal visual principals, theories, and concepts in Art's history are still delivered solely through the same old, textual approach. This antiquated methodology remains to this very day, as distant, passive, and ineffectual as it was since its conception. After all, one cannot and should not expect the major achievements of the visual arts to be fully understood, grasped or appreciated by any means other than a direct, hands-on approach. The Story Of Art Workbook's various assignments are presented in the workbook in simple, contemporary terms and scenarios. The Table of Contents closely follows many versions of Gombrich's classic text, and is organized along the lines of a typical Art History and Art Appreciation course. For more information visit www.DrawingUponArt.com # # # # #

Download or read book Killer Beings written by L. G. Williams and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LG WILLIAMS isn't just about poetry. His success tells us as much about ourselves (and our desire to create beautiful, serene worlds to live by and share) as about his imaginative skills. LG's lyrics aren't as much about word and image as they are about style and presentation. The voice is often simple (that's good, because it means less work for the reader), and beautifully crafted. You may find some of it a bit beyond your time or taste, but it's fun to look at the beautiful lines and dream. In any case, LG's latest book, Killer Beings, should be proudly displayed on your living room table - right next to your latest issue of Martha Stewart Living. It has a complete assortment of goodies, for nearly any occasion. You will find old friends and new ideas, like the wonderful poems of love and longing, which help one get through the stressful workdays or family holidays. More at: www.lgwilliams.com

Download or read book The Book of Kelly written by L. G. Williams and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book Of Kelly is another installment in a series of photography books by American artist LG Williams. The Book Of [Your Name Here] series, originating in January 2015, is an artistic re-examination of the "miracle" of the daguerreotype photograph, in which the artist reaches back to the origins of photography. On August 19, 1839 the French Academy of Sciences announced the invention of the daguerreotype by the scene painter and physicist Louis-Jaques-Mande Daguerre (1787-1851). Word of the discovery spread swiftly, and the daguerreotype photography enjoyed great popularity until the 1850s, especially in America where the process was free from patent restrictions. While there was great demand for portraits captured by the "miracle" of photography, early daguerreotype technology had its shortcomings. The necessarily long exposure times that were required to capture an image, fifteen minutes on average under bright lights, led to necessarily inevitable lacunae in representing the subject. The resulting single image daguerreotypes are de facto composites of the lapsed long exposure time, but not, as was purported, scientifically captured replicas of both time and image. This publication and series presents an opportunity for Williams to provide an artistic, political, and social perspective on the missing truths, images, and loss of time that occurred during the age of Daguerre. In other words, each book from this single-portrait-series consists of hundreds of continuous images during a fifteen-minute stretch of time, or just about as many images as the artist could take as fast as possible using his out-dated FujiFilm FinePix Z70 3-MP Digital Camera. From this historical perspective, Williams' series points to the limitations of daguerreotype photography with the seemingly limitless possibilities of contemporary analogue-image capture and production.