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OverviewWho wants a book that just sits on the coffee table? Here's one to decorate not only the coffee table but the refrigerator, notebooks, laptop computers, public walls, cars - practically any other surface! Ron English's Stickable Art Offenses is a book of stickers readers can actually put up in their own environments, packed with mini-billboards, 'subvertisements' and other visual enhancements from one of the most prolific and recognisable artists working today. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ron English , Randy JohnsonPublisher: Last Gasp,U.S. Imprint: Last Gasp,U.S. Dimensions: Width: 27.90cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.585kg ISBN: 9780867197594ISBN 10: 0867197595 Pages: 100 Publication Date: 23 February 2012 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Awaiting stock Table of ContentsReviews.. .one of the art world's most effective and visually candid critics of this or any troubled time. -- Juxtapoz .. .the brilliant guerilla artist notorious for replacing corporate billboards and advertisements with satirical and pointed attacks on consumer culture. -- New York Magazine .. .a latter-day American hero, a Robin Hood who does not so much steal from the rich as steal the rich's thunder by making their products seem wicked or idiotic. -- The Guardian , one of the art world's most effective and visually candid critics of this or any troubled time.” -- Juxtapoz .. .one of the art world's most effective and visually candid critics of this or any troubled time. -- Juxtapoz Author InformationOne of the most prolific & recognizable artists today, Ron English has bombed the global landscape with unforgettable images, on the street, in museums, in movies, books, television, & album covers. English coined the term POPaganda to describe his signature mash-up of high & low cultural touchstones, from superhero mythology to totems of art history, populated with his vast and constantly growing arsenal of original characters, including MC Supersized, the obese fast-food mascot featured in the hit movie ""Supersize Me,"" & Abraham Obama, the explosive fusion of America's 16th & 44th presidents Grandson of Premier Sideshow Banner painter Fred G Johnson, he is currently a Sr Designer/Art Director with a top shelf consulting firm. He has exhibited sculpture in the US and Internationally, curated exhibitions for the Illinois Arts Council, U of Ill. CU and Intuit: the Center for Outsider and Self Taught Art. Johnson co-wrote and designed the book Freaks Geeks and Strange Girls, Sideshow Banners of the Great American Midway which favored rave reviews by World Art Magazine, the New York Times, American Heritage Magazine, Playboy and Raw Vision and was featured on Sex and the City Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |