LG Williams: Band Aids At FUCKTHATGALLERY PDF Download

Author: LG Williams
Publisher: PCP Press
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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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.

Author: L. G. Williams
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781546415695
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Languages : en
Pages : 50

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On September 25, 2009, FUCKTHATGALLERY inaugurated a new avant-garde contemporary art venue in Waikiki with an exhibition of new wall installations by LG Williams entitled "Band-Aids." LG 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 F-ing Natural World Goodbye, Selected Works 1969-2007 BCE," that inaugurated the new wing of The Art Institute of Chicago and "LG Williams: Sensations Of The Smart Fart Moment" at Museo Museum Urn Moderner Kitty-Kunst Kunst, Vienna Hot Dog, runs until October 11,2009. # # # # #

Author: LG Williams
Publisher: PCP Press
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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"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.

Author: LG Williams
Publisher: PCP Press
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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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 # # # # #

Author: L. G. Williams
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781543266047
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Languages : en
Pages : 118

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The exhibition takes its title from the central sculpture in the exhibition, a large red carpet with two suspended velvet ropes and metal stanchions. A poignant and evocative image, this spectacular totem acts as a powerful coda to Take A Fucking Break (2009). Party Every Night proffers a heraldic icon, the preeminent and majestic emblem of wealth, popularity and splendor. While Take A Fucking Break symbolized the worshipping of rest, relaxation and private carnal knowledge, with Party Every Night (2010) Williams targets the penultimate public celebrity symbol and, by extension, initiates an unprecedented series of Hollywood myth-making performance/parties with Hollywood's top A-list celebs.

Author: Dave Hickey
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781517287108
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Languages : en
Pages : 586

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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.

Author: Raymond Pettibon
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Languages : en
Pages : 390

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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.

Author: Raymond Pettibon
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Languages : en
Pages : 670

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Raymond Pettibon's writing embraced the expanse of social-media digital technology for his art while allowing a more intimate glimpse at the artist. Between February 2011 and February 2021, Pettibon posted something in the region of eighteen thousand digital comments on Twitter. SCKONTHIS!! is based on the entire transcripts that appear here for the first time. This eclectic collection demonstrates the range of Pettibon's thinking as he embarks on an artistic enlightenment project. Pettibon's digital rants reveal the artist in a creative-informal rather than critical-formal mode. They flesh out ideas elucidated in his artworks, none of which are represented here. The twits cover topics as varied as golf, oral, life, and art history-subjects chosen at random for broad appeal and examined with passion and insight. Raymond Pettibon's (b. 1957) influential oeuvre engages a wide spectrum of American iconography variously pulled from literature, art history, philosophy, religion, politics, sports, and alternative youth culture, among other sources. Intermixing image and text, his drawings engage the visual rhetorics of pop and commercial culture while incorporating language from mass media as well as classic texts by writers such as William Blake, Marcel Proust, John Ruskin, and Walt Whitman. Through his exploration of the visual and critical potential of drawing, Pettibon's practice harkens back to the traditions of satire and social critique in the work of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artists and caricaturists such as William Hogarth, Gustave Doré, and Honoré Daumier, while reinforcing the importance of the medium within contemporary art and culture today. PCP Press has been a publisher of Avant-Garde art books and insurgent authors since '69.

Author: L. G. Williams
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781523839643
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Languages : en
Pages : 202

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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 # # # # #