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The resurgence in the popularity of illustrative art can be attributed to an array of factors. Although the acceptance of graphic novels as something more than just comic books has been established for quite some time, when McSweeneys released its all-comics issue in 2004, the mainstream medias reaction elevated the medium, its words and images, to something beyond genre. As a result, such drawings and illustrations have found their ways into marketing campaigns, ads and galleries. While the work of individual artists varies greatly, much of it strikes an irresistible pose, whether viewers are staring at enlarged heads on distorted bodies or a shot-dead bird, its killer and a birdhouse both crying. The work is at once disturbing but oddly attractive. Here at MBP we have dubbed this quality EdgyCute. For more than a decade, Harry Saylor, owner of Orbit Gallery, has been an advocate of art ranging from Neo-Pop to Low Brow, having represented the likes of Gary Baseman, Kathie Olivas, Travis Lampe, Angelique Hautkamp and Michael Caines. With EdgyCute: From Neo-Pop to Low Brow and Back Again, Saylor utilizes his vast expertise in the field to compile a contemporary look at practitioners of this aesthetic, from the famous to the unknown. With more than 100 examples of this work, many of which have been commissioned for this book, and artist interviews, EdgyCute is sure to appeal to anyone with an interest in bleeding-edge illustration.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Blab started as a fanzine and then grew. This is the final offering bringing together a number of categorisations because us humans love to put things into perspectives
Disney Poison and Anime Erotica
Evil Seduction
Mid CenturyNostalgia
Bizarre Grotesque
Heroes
Surreal
This mixes my personal faves; Kathie Olivas, Ryan Heshka, Angela Houltkamp, Lisa Petrucci, Keith Weesner, Elizabeth McGrath with hosts of people new to me, a total of 48 artists in all.
It is a large book based on the discarded themes of the American Empire; Marilyn, Disney, Elvegren, Barbie, Tex Mayer, tattooing, pulp fiction, rockabilly, Dan Dare, punk rock, Harley Davidson- in effect all the things that made America greeeeeaaaaat. All grated, chopped and peeled.
Then doused en flambe with a heavy sous of European surrealism to combine the ingredients and mould them together. The flavours combined to complement, such as; futuristic vintage, dark light, bitter sweet, beauty ugliness, gentle harsh, innocent depraved, sensual asexual, male female, mad sane, urban country, cartoon reality, animalistic human. Jumbled within the process they emerge doused in rich technicolour sauces
Brian Viveros produces sensual asexual depraved innocents beaten into beauty as a form of madness.
Weesner delivers futuristic vintage beauties flying over urban ugliness.
Mitch O'Connel creates cartoon realities of animalistic humans parading a sensual asexuality.
The juxtapostion of opposites creates the artistic tension as America may be nosediving economically but rising head and shoulders artistically over the rest of the world
Disney Poison and Anime Erotica
Evil Seduction
Mid CenturyNostalgia
Bizarre Grotesque
Heroes
Surreal
This mixes my personal faves; Kathie Olivas, Ryan Heshka, Angela Houltkamp, Lisa Petrucci, Keith Weesner, Elizabeth McGrath with hosts of people new to me, a total of 48 artists in all.
It is a large book based on the discarded themes of the American Empire; Marilyn, Disney, Elvegren, Barbie, Tex Mayer, tattooing, pulp fiction, rockabilly, Dan Dare, punk rock, Harley Davidson- in effect all the things that made America greeeeeaaaaat. All grated, chopped and peeled.
Then doused en flambe with a heavy sous of European surrealism to combine the ingredients and mould them together. The flavours combined to complement, such as; futuristic vintage, dark light, bitter sweet, beauty ugliness, gentle harsh, innocent depraved, sensual asexual, male female, mad sane, urban country, cartoon reality, animalistic human. Jumbled within the process they emerge doused in rich technicolour sauces
Brian Viveros produces sensual asexual depraved innocents beaten into beauty as a form of madness.
Weesner delivers futuristic vintage beauties flying over urban ugliness.
Mitch O'Connel creates cartoon realities of animalistic humans parading a sensual asexuality.
The juxtapostion of opposites creates the artistic tension as America may be nosediving economically but rising head and shoulders artistically over the rest of the world
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Nice book overall. Like the premise. Readers may also like Art That Creeps and Kustom Graphics: Hot Rods, Burlesque and Rock 'n' Roll.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
A New World of Art for Many...relax, drop criticisms, enjoy the madness
2 Jun 2010
Format:Hardcover
EDGYCUTE is a term used by Harry Saylor to describe the odd conglomeration of images contained in this unique collection. By definition, it means 'cuteness on the edge of insanity' and refers to the at collected by Saylor form 1989 to the present - that once collected became roommates fleshing out Saylor's gallery of art. This book, under the first class design influence of Mark Batty Publisher, contains the works of a number of artists whose core is a variation of Pop Art pushed to the extremes of Disney and anime. As in Kathie Olivas' fine introduction she states 'Disney Poison, Anime Erotica and an affection for cult and the bizarre are just part of what enables the EdgyCute phenomenon. A growing subculture within the lowbrow/Pop Surrealism art movement of today, there isn't quite enough arm's-length distance to really justify or interpret the movement as a whole just yet. It continues to evolve and re-examine itself by each contributing artist in what should still be considered an introduction.'
What follows is the work of 48 artists of this movement (some with names as strange as their art!) divided into the following categories: Disney Poison, Poison Control, Evil Seduction, Mid-Century Nostalgia, Bizarre Grotesque, Heroes, and Surreal. They are is basically figurative, like a civilization of large headed dolls, aliens, and puns on the advertising schemes that flood our brains. Is it great art? Who knows how history with judge it. There are some famous practicing fine artists who use these ideas and images, especially from the vast amount of imagery rolling in from Asian countries obsessed with anime.
But give this large book a chance to get under your skin - and it will. This art is meant to do that: it i a wake up call to roust us out of the usual and accepted schools of classical, abstract, modern, neo-this and neo-that, etc. This is a dodgy ride through the imagination of a whole other group of creative artists, and these artists deserve at least our momentary attention this book provides! Grady Harp, June 10
What follows is the work of 48 artists of this movement (some with names as strange as their art!) divided into the following categories: Disney Poison, Poison Control, Evil Seduction, Mid-Century Nostalgia, Bizarre Grotesque, Heroes, and Surreal. They are is basically figurative, like a civilization of large headed dolls, aliens, and puns on the advertising schemes that flood our brains. Is it great art? Who knows how history with judge it. There are some famous practicing fine artists who use these ideas and images, especially from the vast amount of imagery rolling in from Asian countries obsessed with anime.
But give this large book a chance to get under your skin - and it will. This art is meant to do that: it i a wake up call to roust us out of the usual and accepted schools of classical, abstract, modern, neo-this and neo-that, etc. This is a dodgy ride through the imagination of a whole other group of creative artists, and these artists deserve at least our momentary attention this book provides! Grady Harp, June 10
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
A Great Beginning
19 April 2010
Format:Hardcover
The author takes on just about every contemporary artist in the Neo-Pop Low Brow genre today. With informative biographies and a great introduction by Monte Beauchamp, the publisher of Blab!, this is a must have for every art and toy lover out there.
Inspiring and mad, in a good way!
2 April 2012
Format:Hardcover
For everyone who loves the neo-pop approach to art, this is like a dream come true. One of my favourite art books.
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