Steven Shearer (17 results)

Illustrated Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 126 unmarked pages. Contributors include Laurence Goldstein, Lawrence Dietz, Burt Prelutsky, Harry Shearer, Digby Diehl, David Paletz, Norman Hartweg, Steven Zwicker, Lanny Sher, Chris Breyer, Fidel Danieli, Bruce Williams and K. S. Kynell. Covers clean and bright. J. Agazzi (illustrator).…

Stapled wraps. Condition: Very Good. Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr College of Art & Design (Vancouver BC) , 1995, stapled wraps. Paperback about 9x9, Very Good (light edgewear, crease to top corner of front cover). Unpaginated, ART EXHIBITION CATALOG; F1956 Shlf; Unpaginated pages.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very Good paperback about 6½x9¾ inches with some cover edgewear. 192 pages, unmarked. ; OVR28 EBD; 192 pages.

Poster. The original announcement poster for an exhibition of work by Steven Shearer, held at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, August 30 - October 25, 2014. Single sheet of glossy paper, printed both sides; 11.5 x 16.5 inches. Condition: Fine, virtually As New, folded twice as issued, with light flaking to the folds. Will be sandwiched securely between stiff layers of cardboard and shipped the next business day.…

Condition: Good. Mul. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Poster with Steven Shearer poem on front and text on rear side;measuring 24 x 17 inches; very good condition; machine folded 4 times into 8 sections; a mailed copy with address label on rear. Will be mailed folded.

Hardcover without dustjacket as issued, 380 pages, as new condition, clean and crisp; no internal marks. German and French stapled text booklets laid in at rear. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Softcover, 258 pages; in English, French and Italian; as new condition; clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Qto., 112 pages, colour illustrated. A New copy in dust jacket.

Hardcover. First edition, 2007, first printing. Fine hardcover in a Near Fine minus dust jacket with light shelf wear. All dust jackets are protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. "This first monograph on Canadian artist Steven Shearer plunges the reader into the phenomenally versatile work he creates based on material in his extensive image bank of some 36,000 JPEGs of clippings, Xeroxes, and found photos. Shearer's obsession is his own development as a teenaged boy, and issues around teen identity and social class. The works presented here -- a mix of paintings, posters, highly intricate photo-collages, drawings and written poems, from his 2007 exhibitions at Ikon and The Power Plant galleries -- while animated by the culture of Heavy Metal music, ultimately reveal the need to belong that helps define the human condition, especially during adolescence." Essays by curators Nigel Prince, Helena Reckitt, and Nancy Tousley. 144 pages; color plates and text illustrations throughout; 9 x 11.25 inches. Plate list.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Adopting and elaborating upon stylistic repertoires drawn from the history of figure painting, Steven Shearer makes formal and thematic parallels between art history and the iconography associated with various contemporary subcultures including their modes of dissemination such as fanzines and image shrines on personal websites. He is interested in how contemporary society unconsciously echoes specific manners of appearance that have been explored by historical movements or schools. Seen in this light, the resemblance between the long, flowing hair of his metal-head rockers and the tresses of Pre-Raphaelite heroines is not fortuitous. Central to Shearer's work is his ongoing compilation of an archive of thousands of images culled from magazines, songs and the internet. In his paintings, text-based works, sculptures and photographic compilations, these sources function generatively as they are combined and recycled across his works. By showing us aspects of popular culture anachronistically, Shearer exposes the false hierarchy of high and low art and prompts us to consider the differences between the cultural industries and the art world.…

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: New. This first monograph on Canadian artist Steven Shearer plunges thereader into the phenomenally versatile work he creates based onmaterial in his extensive image bank of some 36,000 JPEGs ofclippings, Xeroxes, and found photos. Shearer's obsession is his owndevelopment as a teenaged boy, and issues around teen identity andsocial class. The 67 works presented here - a mix of paintings, posters,highly intricate photo-collages, drawings and written poems, from his2007 exhibitions at Ikon and The Power Plant galleries - while animatedby the culture of Heavy Metal music, ultimately reveal the - need tobelong - that helps define the human condition, especially duringadolescence. Excellent interpretive essays by curators Nigel Prince,Helena Reckitt and Nancy Tousley.…

[8] pp.; 22.8 x 15.3 cm.; accordion; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; Exhibition brochure / catalogue published in conjunction with show held January 21 - February 18, 1984. Foreword by Linda Shearer. Curated and with a text by Helene Winer. Galleries include Cash, Christminster Fine Art, Civilian Warfare, East 7th Street Gallery, Executive Gallery, 51 X, Fun Gallery, Tracey Garet, International With Monument, Gracie Mansion, Nature Morte, The New Math Gallery, Oggi - Domani, Pat Hearn, Piezo Electric, PPOW, and Sharpe Gallery. Artists include Stephen Aljian, Alan Belcher, Paul Benney, Zeke Berman, Ellen Berkenblit, Keiko Bonk, Tom Brazelton, Barry Bridgwood, Nancy Brooks Brody, Chris Chevins, Craig Coleman, Rich Colicchio, Michael Collins, George Condo, Gregory A. Crane, Mark Dean, Jimmy de Sana, Futura, Robert Garratt, Dana Garrett, Judith Glantzman, Arthur Gonzalez, Rodney Alan Greenblat, Kathleen Grove, Richard Hambleton, Kiely Jenkins, Sermin Kardestuncer, Elizabeth Koury, Stephen Lack, Leora Laor, Robert Loughlin, Paul Marcus, Frank Moore, Peter Nagy, Michael Ottersen, Steven Parrino, Rick Prol, Hope Sandrow, Michael Sangaris, Bruno Schmidt, Peter Schuyff, Huck Snyder, Ahbe Sulit, Frederick Sutherland, Meyer Vaisman, Oliver Wasow, Dondi White, David Wojnarowicz, Robert Yarber, Zephyr, and Rhonda Zwillinger. "The exhibition includes work from seventeen galleries located in the East Village or the area east of Second Avenue, just below Houston Street: CASH, Christminster, Civilian Warfare, East 7th Street Gallery. Executive Gallery, 51 X, Fun Gallery, Garet/ Kohn Gallery, Gracie Mansion. International with Monument, Nature Morte, New Math, Oggi-Domani, Pat Hearn. Piezo Electric, P.P.O.W. and Sharpe Gallery. Work by artists associated with the galleries have been selected by the individual gallery directors, and Helene Winer, organizer of the exhibition. Helene Winer is a past Director of Artists Space and currently co-owner of Metro Pictures a commercial gallery in SoHo. As part of Artists Space''''s celebration of its 10th anniversary season, she has organized this exhibition to examine a growing number of artist organized commercial exhibition spaces. Ms. Winer''''s past experience with the non-profit art community and her present position in the commercial art world offer a unique outlook on this new trend. In keeping with Artists Space''''s support of new art through both its Exhibition Program and Grants Program, NEW GALLERIES OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE is a look at a new outlet for emerging art: an outlet which straddles the lines between the artists cooperative, the non-profit alternative space, the artist organized independent exhibition and the commercial gallery. NEW GALLERIES OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE acknowledges the recent appearance and rapid proliferation of more than twenty commercial art galleries that are introducing new artists and art. This phenomenon has created overnight, it seems, active new exhibition outlets for artists, an on-going vehicle for massive social opening events, a Sunday activity for the art audience, a new map in the Gallery Guide and a new focus of excitement and energy in the art community. The galleries are now numerous and offer more than the aesthetic that was first presented by the pioneers (Gracie Mansion, Fun Gallery and 51 X) and which has come to be associated with the East Village. They are very professional enterprises that intend to provide serious support and attention to the artists they show. Many of the galleries are artist owned. The artist/owners who converted storefronts to studios have now converted these studios to galleries. Most of these owners work at jobs separate from the gallery to support the activity and many live ''''behind the shop." The East Village Eye and New York Beat play the role that the SoHo News and the Village Voice did for SoHo and Tribeca. The East Village and the Lower East Side of New York has been an area many artists moved to, since SoHo and then Tribeca have been increasingly gentrified, a fate that may now befall the East Village itself. Over the years the art community has found ''''alternative'''' means of creating needed opportunities for artists to exhibit their work to at least their peers, and occasionally to a broader audience. In the fifties. New York artists opened cooperative galleries on Tenth Street. Later, alternative spaces opened with government funding: commercial galleries moved from Uptown to Downtown for both space and accessibility to the artists. community artists organized their own temporary exhibitions such as the Times Square Show, and now, in a period of two years, some 25 commercial galleries have opened on the Lower East Side, the majority in 1983."--from exhibition press release Very Good / Fine. Light yellowing of cover edges, otherwise Fine. Contents clean and unmarked. …

96 pp.; 25.5 x 20.3 cm.; staple bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Zine published in conjunction with exhibition held in Paris which presented work from the JRP|Ringier publishing program. Artists and writers who had collaborated with JRP|Ringier in the past were invited by Gilles [Gavillet] and Ari Marcopolous to submit work on a 20.5 x 25.5 cm (8 x 10 inch) page or spread. Artists include: Ari Marcopoulos, Ugo Rondinone, Erik Steinbrecher, Allen Ruppersberg, Richard Prince, Olaf Breuning, Tom Burt, Steven Shearer, David Robbins, Francis Baudevin, Scott King, Mai-Thu Perret, Michele Robecchi, Daria Martin, Christophe Cherix, Liam Gillick, Amy O'Neill, Pierre Huyghe, Armin Linke, Art & Language, Xavier Veilhan, Vidya Gastaldon, Gianni Motti, AA Bronson, Karl Holmqvist, Jim Shaw, Olivier Mosset, Michael Smith, Philippe Decrauzat, Andrea Thal, Monica Bonvicini, Nicolas Trembley, Frabrice Gygi, Balthazar Lovay, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Paul O'Neill, Fabrice Stroun, Guyton\Walker, Walter Pfeiffer, Flag, Ján Mancuska, Andro Wekua, Raphael Gygax, John Welchman, Elodie Pong, Ivana Keser, Mathieu Mercier, Philippe Rahm, William Kentridge, Valentin Carron, Sean Landers, John Armleder, Dan Walsh, and Linder. Cover by Ari Marcopoulos. Fine. New, as issued. Contents clean and unmarked.…

Condition: Very Good.

Nine vintage reference photographs from the 1980 film. All photographs with a mimeo snipe attached to the verso. Follows the first ever animal Olympics, where animals compete in winter and summer Olympic sports under continental teams. 8 x 10 inches. Fine.