Aaron Rose Texts (5 results)

Softcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 16 x 23 cm, 96 pages, 16 color illustrations - The first decade of the twenty-first century appears to belong to the collagist, for whom the creative act is not creation sui generis, but rather the collecting, cutting and pasting of the already extant. Collage, which began as an art meant to confound the brain with its disparate components, has jumped the flat surface, so that almost all musicians, designers, writers and bloggers might today be described as collage artists.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine in publisher's sleeve. First edition. Folio. 248pp. Original black cloth in photo-illustrated dustjacket with green lettering on cover and spine. Photo-illustrated endpapers. Ari Marcopoulos 'Out & About' should be considered a diary of one photographer's journey through two decades of New York life. Originally form the Netherlands, Marcopoulos moved to New York at the end of the '70s. Out and About covers his photographic activity in New York, spanning from images of underground artists and celebrities of these times, to the snapshots documenting street life and the telling portraits of Marcopoulos himself, his wife and his children. Different images, all equally characterized by an unmistakable element. As Aaron Rose writes in his introductory text: What Ari was doing photographically with the art and music stars of the Eighties is the same thing he was doing in our little misfit art scene in the Nineties and he still continues today. He is consistently seeking style, substance and spirit in the places most people forget to look. He is Out and About, exploring the world in search of subjects and situations from which we all can learn. It's true that the photographs in this volume represent a time and place in New York that is long gone now. [] But thanks to the photographs of Ari Marcopoulos some evidence of that time can live on not only in the pages of this book, but in the hearts and minds of everyone whom Ari's photographs have touched. The book also features critical essays by Harmony Korine and Diego Cortez. (Publisher).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. First edition. Small Folio. 159 [1]pp.; 4 plates of color photographs. Original black half cloth over photo-illustrated paper-covered boards with white lettering on cover and spine. Photo-illustrated endpapers in color. Signed by Gusmano Cesaretti on title page. Beautifully illustrated with b/w photo-reproductions and four plates of color photographs, three of them double page. Includes interview of Gusmano Cesaretti by Aaron Rose, and index of images at rear. "A modest, but astonishing book on the graffiti culture of East LA in the early 1970s was my most exciting discovery in the preparation of "Art in the Streets," the exhibition that Roger Gastman, Aaron Rose and I curated for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 2011. Nearly forty years after it was made, Gusmano Cesaretti's work remains fresh and revelatory. Looking at his images, we are still entering a secret world. Gusmano's special rapport with his subjects that allowed him such direct access also remains after the passage of four decades.".

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine condition. First edition. Large Quarto. 256 (14)pp. Original red cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine, in original, color-illustrated dustjacket, black lettering on spine. Decorative endpapers. 13 frontsipieces, three of them double-page. Catalog for the traveling exhibition Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, and Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach. Profusely illustrated with color and b/w reproductions of street art by Thomas Campbell, Cynthia Connolly, Brian Donnelly, Cheryl Dunn, Shepard Fairey, Phil Frost and others. Comprehensive overview of the works in historical context with insights into methods and inspirations. Conatains biographical notes on artists and contributors at rear. Dustjacket with minor wear along edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine to fine condition. First edition. Small Folio. 298pp. Original illustrated gray boards with black lettering on cover and spine. Yellow endpapers at front, brown at rear. Drawing by and signature of Chris Johanson on half-title. Artwork photographed by Tobin Yelland, Cheryl Dunn and others. Retrospective survey of Chris Johanson work with an introduction by Aaron Rose. Profusely illustrated with color reproductions of Chris Johanson's paintings, watercolors, drawings and installations throughout. With credits for images and photos at rear. "In Chris Johanson's open-wound heart and comically sinister universe, nudist dancers, good vibes, emotionally centered people, forest energy and rainbows transform the fleeting and commonplace activities of the human experience into affecting parables frozen in time." (Publisher). Text in English and Italian. Minor wear of binding.