Beautiful losers
Subtitle: essays
By: by Alex Baker ... [et al.], edited by Aaron Rose and Christian Strike.
Contributors: Baker, Alex.; Rose, Aaron.; Strike, Christian.
Publisher: Iconoclast; in conjunction with D.A.P., Distributed Art Publishers; D.A.P./Iconoclast
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Art, American -- 20th century; Counterculture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Published in connection with the exhibition, Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture, held at Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, March 13-May 23, 2004, at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, July 17-October 3, 2004, at Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, February 5-May 8, 2005, and at Pennsylvania Academy for the Arts, Philadelphia, June 25-September 25, 2005.
Table of contents: title: Least likely to succeed / Aaron Rose; title: The painters of contemporary life / Thom Collins; title: The beaten path / Carlo McCormick; title: Pineapple and all those guys / Jocko Weyalnd; title: Transforming terrains / Alex Baker; title: Lightning in a bottle / Arty Nelson; title: The bowl in the gallery / Jeffrey Deitch; title: In the beginning, there was the word / James E. Walmesley; title: The creators / Christian Strike; title: Artists and contributors; title: Artists' pages: Raymond Pettibon, Clare E. Rojas, Jo Jackson, Craig R. Stecyk III, Chris Johanson, Thomas Campbell, Ed Templeton, Barry McGee.