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Kris Kuksi's sculptures, rendered in immaculate detail, evoke a grandeur reminiscent of the Baroque era. Kuksi successfully merges this sumptuous echo of the past with a satirical and critical commentary of our modern industrial world. These finely crafted sculptures employ images of Gods and Goddesses from past and present mythologies and examine religious belief and iconography. Despite the frequent portrayal of corruption, violence, chaos and degeneration, the works in this book challenge aspects of our beliefs.
" Laurie Lipton's vast and eerily memorable drawings have been widely recognised for their sublime references to life's predicaments. Portrayed with a teeth-clenching humour and consummate skill, her work is rich in imagination, artistry and social awareness. ....The subject of her art - fear, politics, sexuality, murder, mayhem, greed, indifference - are timelessly classic..." -- back cover.
From his beginnings in the Hollywood special effects industry to his establishment as a widely respected fine artist, Chet's unique world of monsters has fascinated and influenced those in fields as varied as tattooing, music and art academia. Now, through this publication, Chet gives us unprecedented access to his story. In addition to Chet's own reminiscences, this book offers contributions from creative forces who run the retrospective gamut of Chet's career, including: renowned tattooist Paul Booth, author Jovanka Vuckovic and director Guillermo del Toro.
Three short stories that focus on loss and despair ; the final story, The rabbits, was written by John Marsden.
A bold exploration of modern psychedelic culture, its history, and future • Examines 3 modern psy-culture architects: chemist Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin, mycologist-philosopher Terence McKenna, and visionary artist Alex Grey • Investigates the use of microdosing in extreme sports, the psy-trance festival experience, and the relationship between the ego, entheogens, and toxicity • Presents a “History of Visionary Art,” from its roots in prehistory, to Ernst Fuchs and the Vienna School of the Fantastic, to contemporary psychedelic art After the dismantling of a major acid laboratory in 2001 dramatically reduced the world supply of LSD, the psychedelic revolution of the 1960s appea...
An eye-popping collection of fantastical, imaginative, pop-surrealist and just plain twisted contemporary figurative art, executed with top-notch technique and mad skills by some of the finest and most influential artists working today. It features 50 contemporary artists, including HR Giger, Ron English, Robert Williams, Chris Mars, Lori Earley, Tiffany Bozic, Shawn Barber, Octavio Ocampo, Amanda Sage, David M. Bowers, Heidi Taillefer, David Stoupakis, Travis Louie, James Zar and many others.
In The Icarus Syndrome, Peter Beinart tells a tale as old as the Greeks - a story about the seductions of success. Beinart describes Washington on the eve of three wars - World War I, Vietnam and Iraq - three moments when American leaders decided they could remake the world in their image. Each time, leading intellectuals declared that history was over, and the spread of democracy was inevitable. Each time, a president held the nation in the palm of his hand. And each time, a war conceived in arrogance brought untold tragedy. In dazzling colour, Beinart portrays three extraordinary generations: the progressives who took America into World War I, led by Woodrow Wilson, the lonely preacher's s...
Beautiful Taiwanese Girls 明知故犯-程永熏 「坦白」是一種美麗,那麼程永熏一直都是這麼美麗─無論她有沒有整型。當她坦白地承認自己姣好的容貌是整型的結果時,她已經比所有習慣「詐騙」的女人們都要真實而美麗。所以,請你再一次仔細看看程永熏:她的眼淚是真的,笑容是真的,愛自己的美麗心情是真的。
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