Conceptual Realism In the Service of the Hypothetical

Conceptual Realism In the Service of the Hypothetical
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A collection of new paintings from a contemporary master.
Conceptual Realism: In the Service of the Hypothetical is a catalog accompanying Robert Williamsâ€™ Fall 2009 solo exhibition of new work at New York Cityâ€™s prestigious Tony Shafrazi Gallery; the show will continue on in 2010 to galleries in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and elsewhere. The book features approximately 25 new paintings, complete with essays on each piece by the artist, insights into the process behind each painting (including sketches, underpaintings, etc.), and many other surprises, including an introduction by painter, tattoo artist and international tattoo cultural advocate Don Ed Hardy.

The alternative art movement of the late 20th Century found its most congealing participant in one of Americaâ€™s most opprobrious and maligned underground artists, the painter, Robert Williams. It was Williams who brought the term â€œlowbrowâ€ into the fine arts lexicon, with his groundbreaking 1979 book, The Lowbrow Art of Robt. Williams. It was from this point that the seminal elements of West Coast Outlaw culture slowly started to aggregate.

Williams pursued a career as a fine arts painter years before joining the art studio of Ed â€œBig Daddyâ€ Roth in the mid-1960s. And in this position as the famous custom car builderâ€™s art director, he moved into the rebellious, anti-war circles of early underground comix. In 1968, Williams linked up with the infamous San Francisco group that piloted the flagship of the miscreant cartoon world, Zap Comix. Along with Robert Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, S. Clay Wilson, Spain Rodriguez, Victor Moscoso and Rick Griffin, Williams learned to function as an artist outside the walls of conventional art.

Known as the â€œartistâ€™s artist,â€ in early punk rock art shows held in after-hours clubs, Williams soon pioneered the first break-away art movement in California since the Eucalyptus Schoolâ€™s estrangement from Impressionism in the late 1920s. His bold use of underground cartoon figuration, paired with harshly contrasted psychedelic colors set a style that was an easily recognizable hallmark throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Williamsâ€™ new paintings, on display in Conceptual Realism, take the viewer into the world of subjective theoryâ€•a mock realm of violated graphic physics, and the next logical step into abstract thought. 120 color illustrations
Country USA
Brand Fantagraphics
Manufacturer Fantagraphics Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781606992999
ReleaseDate 2009-12-31
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781606992999

Country	USA
Brand	Fantagraphics
Manufacturer	Fantagraphics Books
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781606992999
ReleaseDate	2009-12-31
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781606992999

Conceptual Realism In the Service of the Hypothetical

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