Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia
By: edited by Adam Lerner ; foreword by Wes Anderson ; essays by Maria Elena Buszek, Shepard Fairey, Cary Levine, Steven Wolf
Contributors: Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press, Incorporated
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Denver, Colorado
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781616892623
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Description: "Mark Mothersbaugh is a legendary figure for fans of both street art and music culture. Cofounder of the seminal New Wave band DEVO, he was a prolific visual artist before the band's inception moving seamlessly between multiple mediums creating bold, cartoonish, strangely disturbed works of pop surrealism that playfully explore the relationship between technology and individuality. In the most comprehensive presentation of his work to date, Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia features a lifetime of his creative inventions from the beginning of his artistic career in the 1970s to his most recent work, including early postcards, screen prints, decals, and DEVO ephemera as well as later paintings, photographs (such as the celebrated Beautiful Mutants series), sculpture, and rugs. Accompanied by a major six city traveling exhibition, this richly illustrated catalog positions Mothersbaugh as a pivitol figure in the history of both contemporary art and indie culture."--
Notes: "Published on occasion of the exhibition Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia, organized by Museum of Contemporary Art Denver."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: label: Acknowledgments
title: 14; label: Foreword / Wes Anderson
title: 16; label: One — A Preliminary Sketch of the Extraordinary Landscape of the Artist's Mind
title: 18; label: Mr. Magic / Adam Lerner
title: 20; label: Interview / Mark Mothersbaugh and Adam Lerner
title: 30; label: Two — The Birth of an Artful Polymath (or, How So Much More Than DEVO Emerged from a Turbulent and Creative Age)
title: 54; label: Formative Years / Adam Lerner
title: 56; label: Punk Rock Futurist / Maria Elena Buszek
title: 76; label: Worried Man / Cary Levine
title: 90; label: Three — The Curious Characters and Astounding Machines That Populate His World
title: 100; label: Postcard Diaries
title: 102; label: Beautiful Mutants
title: 126; label: Roli Polis
title: 158; label: Rugs
title: 178; label: Orchestrions
title: 200; label: Four — More About the Epic Endeavor to Create a Lifelong Diary in the Form of 3O,000 Illustrated Postcards
title: 212; label: Extremely Disturbed / Steven Wolf
title: 214; label: Uncontrollable Urge / Shepard Fairey
title: 224; label: Timeline
title: 248; label: Contributors
title: 251; label: List of Works Illustrated
title: 252; label: Credits
title: 255