6/29/2023 0 Comments Book beautiful losers![]() This approach involves doodling, spreading graffiti and taking snapshots of their friends naked. ![]() Bucking the traditional art school route, these self-taught artists prefer a more laid-back, ""D.I.Y."" (""do it yourself"") attitude. Yet the loosely affiliated group of skateboarding and punk music aficionados represented in this book seems to have a considerable amount of cachet invested in their outsider status, their ability to see the beauty in being a ""loser."" Many of the painters, photographers and cartoonists in this book appear to be taking a cue from the most famous insider/outsider of them all, Andy Warhol: witness Harmony Korine's photo-collage of a disaffected Macauley Culkin, Terry Richardson's photo of a young man sitting on a toilet or a scarf design by Mike Mills titled ""Fight Against the Rising Tide of Conformity."" The artists consume popular culture and then spit it back out in a highly personalized form to express their alienation from the usual boogeymen (suburbia, capitalism, middle-class middlebrow culture). ![]() ![]() Nor can its makers, artists whose work is now displayed in museums and top galleries around the world, really be considered losers. ![]() Most of the work in this exhibition catalog is not beautiful by traditional standards. ![]()
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