Just got this book and loved every minute of it! I still find myself cracking it open and looking at the art everytime I glimpse the cover.
Pop Surrealism- The Rise Of Underground Art has essays by Robert Williams, Carol McCormick and Larry Reid.
In a nutshell, they write about the origins of Pop Surrealism art and what it has evolved to. The book boasts of over 150 full-color images and being the "first book to offer a comprehensive survey of this fascinating new art movement and its top renegade artists." In my opinion, they definitely delivered what they promised.
Some of the artists featured are Don Ed Hardy, Mark Ryden, Liz McGrath, Camille Rose Garcia, Kalynn Campbell, Robert Williams and much more.
If you want to get the skinny on this somewhat new art movement than definitely pick up a copy. It does more than educate on the origins (which was interesting all on its own); it also talks about the pattern of being unacknowledged by the artists that might be considered (for lack of a better word) "highbrow". It really inspires us "renegades of the art world" to continue at our craft, not be caged in order to be accepted.
I personally have this mindset with my own art so definitely a book chock full of affirmations for me.
(Stay tuned for a book review of Juxtapoz Erotica as well as an interview of a surprise local artist!)
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