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This monograph is the first to explore the work of the street artist Swoon, drawing readers into her imaginative world and showcasing the full range of her artistic practices, from street art to studio work and junkyard boats to spontaneous street parties. Arranged around a loose chronology, the book focuses first on her street art: life-size prints and paper cutouts of figures that take on a new life as natural elements slowly erode and destroy the paper. The same faces she once pasted on the street corners of New York starting ten years ago begin to appear in gallery spaces and in installations that have been exhibited around the world. Also included are her most recent and highly publicised projects, the Swimming Cities, created by scavenging junk to craft makeshift steamships that are part floating artwork, part performance and part experiments in communal living. With the help of friends and volunteers, Swoon launched a group of these riverboats first down the Mississippi River, then the Hudson River and in June of 2009 into Venice for the Biennale. Also featured are images of her art collective Toyshop, which orchestrates a form of organic public theater that could include anything from a ragtag band patrolling Manhattan's Lower East Side to a pirate takeover of the Staten Island ferry. The texts include essays from fellow artists and collaborators such as famed gallery owner Jeffrey Deitch, playwright Lisa D'Amour, writer and activist Rollo Romig and artist Jeff Stark.
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Format:Hardcover
If you don't know who SWOON is, buy this book and let this insiprational, highly creative artist into your life. If you do know who she is, this book is a fantastic collection of her work, showing her creative processes with some wonderful images to support. It also contains interviews and essays around her artwork. SWOON is quite political/ ethical so this would appeal to people who are interested in 'green/ sustainable' art too, as well as street art lovers.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Making Permanent the Impermanent Art of Swoon
18 Dec 2010
Format:Hardcover
SWOON is the nom de plume of Caledonia "Callie" Dance Curry, a out in the open 'street artist' from New York City who has made her mark on the art world by creating life-size wheatpaste prints and paper cutouts of family and friends going about the very ordinary aspect of daily life, superimposed on her own bizarre yet realistic renderings of bridges, fire escapes, sidewalks. Her works are not created to last: they weather rain and snow and wind and graffiti and the changes that these elements create sometimes enhance the original work. She has created altars, decorated ships, public theater - her influence is ubiquitous in New York and in gallery and building settings and in Berlin and other parts of the world, much to the favor she finds in the hands of Jeffrey Deitch.
This monograph is generous in the number of images created by Swoon and given the fact that her art is by nature temporary, the book saves much of her work for posterity. There are essays accompanying the works - describing her Swimming Cities and Toyshop projects - and while these essays are not always particularly well written they do add flavor that enhances the imagery. The curator of this book is MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch, an important art figure who is currently facing the cloud of censorship for his act of covering a mural placed outside the Los Angeles MOCA facility. This controversy makes reading about Swoon and Deitch's promotion of her while in Deitch Projects in Brooklyn all the more timely! Grady Harp, December 10
This monograph is generous in the number of images created by Swoon and given the fact that her art is by nature temporary, the book saves much of her work for posterity. There are essays accompanying the works - describing her Swimming Cities and Toyshop projects - and while these essays are not always particularly well written they do add flavor that enhances the imagery. The curator of this book is MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch, an important art figure who is currently facing the cloud of censorship for his act of covering a mural placed outside the Los Angeles MOCA facility. This controversy makes reading about Swoon and Deitch's promotion of her while in Deitch Projects in Brooklyn all the more timely! Grady Harp, December 10
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
real street art and beautiful hand made!
20 July 2010
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book is very interesting all people, who liked street art, modern art, hand made, paper art.
Swoon is original street artist. She is the best.
Swoon is original street artist. She is the best.
7 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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16 Jun 2010
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I bought the book for the eye candy, and it didn't disappoint.
Swoon's visuals are as fresh and energized as an Anthropologie storefront.
The writing, on the other hand, I found depressing.
I'd always thought of Swoon as a mysterious, spectral figure leaving intriguing graffiti in dark alleyways and urban corners. This book sure shattered that illusion.
The chapters felt like infomercials.
Swoon is the "can-do" gal scooting around the streets of Brooklyn on her trusty bike (that surely has a name).
Her adventures and team spirit are the makings of a family channel series for pre-teens. She hatches an idea, and rallies the team - adults with so much time on their hands, they can follow merrily along, helping her vision to fruition.
The sequence of group adventures had the smell of vacuous self-promotion schemes. Even the outrageous subway ad caper was, in reality, squeaky clean, with a possible grant on the agenda. I started feeling that even her famous graffiti was little more than calculated.
That being said, I admire this woman's business acuity, as well as her amazing ability as a producer.
Artists might find it demoralizing that summer camp stunts are mandatory to get recognized in a city where artists are as ubiquitous as roaches.
Swoon's visuals are as fresh and energized as an Anthropologie storefront.
The writing, on the other hand, I found depressing.
I'd always thought of Swoon as a mysterious, spectral figure leaving intriguing graffiti in dark alleyways and urban corners. This book sure shattered that illusion.
The chapters felt like infomercials.
Swoon is the "can-do" gal scooting around the streets of Brooklyn on her trusty bike (that surely has a name).
Her adventures and team spirit are the makings of a family channel series for pre-teens. She hatches an idea, and rallies the team - adults with so much time on their hands, they can follow merrily along, helping her vision to fruition.
The sequence of group adventures had the smell of vacuous self-promotion schemes. Even the outrageous subway ad caper was, in reality, squeaky clean, with a possible grant on the agenda. I started feeling that even her famous graffiti was little more than calculated.
That being said, I admire this woman's business acuity, as well as her amazing ability as a producer.
Artists might find it demoralizing that summer camp stunts are mandatory to get recognized in a city where artists are as ubiquitous as roaches.
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