Editor: Jon Savage
Publisher: JRP Ringier
Publication: 2011, First Edition
Binding: Softcover, section sewn
Pages:
Size: 225 x 300
Text: English
(Publishers overview) 'Scott King’s work adopts an idiosyncratic and multilayered approach that simultaneously embraces the worlds of art, advertising, graphic design, semiotics, politics, and popular culture. Using the languages of commerce, visual communication, and bureaucracy (charts, diagrams, statistics, etc.), his works, always imbued with a deadpan humor, aim at a complex of psychological, sociological, and political content.
Much of his art draws on political imagery, though he claims not to be especially political himself. “Most of the stuff I’ve done that is deemed political is actually about the failure of a certain kind of political ideology,” he says. “It’s about the failure of the left, mainly. So things like Cher Guevara and the Angry Brigade Tea Towels are really about the commodification of once meaningful imagery and gestures.” King’s work also has its roots in the seamier side of British culture...'
Condition: Very Good. All titles are used and show shelf ware consistent with age. Light rubbing to cover.
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