Revisionist Art: Thirty Works by Bob Dylan
In Revisionist Art, Bob Dylan offers silkscreened covers of popular magazines from the last half century that somehow escaped history's notice. As Luc Sante says in his introduction to this collection, they seem to emanate, "from a world just slightly removed from ours--a world a bit more honest about its corruption, its chronic horniness, its sweat, its body odor." Art critic B. Clavery provides a history of Revisionist Art, from cave drawings, to Gutenberg, to Duchamp, Picasso, and Warhol. The book also features vivid commentaries on the work, (re)acquainting the reader with such colorful historical figures as the Depression-era politician Cameron Chambers, whose mustache became an icon in the gay underworld, and Gemma Burton, a San Francisco trial attorney who used all of her assets in the courtroom. According to these works, history is not quite what we think it is.
Praise for Revisionist Art:
"Revisionist Art may be the strangest move Dylan has made in a long while, but it's also his most brilliantly uproarious foray into full-blown comedy." --Rolling Stone, four-star review
Praise for Revisionist Art:
"Revisionist Art may be the strangest move Dylan has made in a long while, but it's also his most brilliantly uproarious foray into full-blown comedy." --Rolling Stone, four-star review
ArtCollections, Catalogs, ExhibitionsAmericanPopular Culture
RELEASED2013
PUBLISHERHarry N. Abrams
LENGTH164
LANGUAGEEN
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman; May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has been a major figure in music since the 1960s. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler, and an apparently reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of his songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" became anthems for the US civil rights and anti-war movements. His early lyrics incorporated a variety of political, social and philosophical, as well as literary influences. They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed hugely to the then burgeoning counterculture. Initially inspired by the songs of Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, Hank Williams, and the performance style of Little Richard, Dylan has both amplified and personalized musical genres, exploring numerous distinct traditions in American song—from folk, blues and country to gospel, rock and roll, and rockabilly, to English, Scottish, and Irish folk music, embracing even jazz and swing. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan
Revisionist Art: Thirty Works by Bob Dylan
In Revisionist Art, Bob Dylan offers silkscreened covers of popular magazines from the last half century that somehow escaped history's notice. As Luc Sante says in his introduction to this collection, they seem to emanate, "from a world just slightly removed from ours--a world a bit more honest about its corruption, its chronic horniness, its sweat, its body odor." Art critic B. Clavery provides a history of Revisionist Art, from cave drawings, to Gutenberg, to Duchamp, Picasso, and Warhol. The book also features vivid commentaries on the work, (re)acquainting the reader with such colorful historical figures as the Depression-era politician Cameron Chambers, whose mustache became an icon in the gay underworld, and Gemma Burton, a San Francisco trial attorney who used all of her assets in the courtroom. According to these works, history is not quite what we think it is.
Praise for Revisionist Art:
"Revisionist Art may be the strangest move Dylan has made in a long while, but it's also his most brilliantly uproarious foray into full-blown comedy." --Rolling Stone, four-star review
Praise for Revisionist Art:
"Revisionist Art may be the strangest move Dylan has made in a long while, but it's also his most brilliantly uproarious foray into full-blown comedy." --Rolling Stone, four-star review
ArtCollections, Catalogs, ExhibitionsAmericanPopular Culture
RELEASED2013
PUBLISHERHarry N. Abrams
LENGTH164
LANGUAGEEN
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman; May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has been a major figure in music since the 1960s. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler, and an apparently reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of his songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" became anthems for the US civil rights and anti-war movements. His early lyrics incorporated a variety of political, social and philosophical, as well as literary influences. They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed hugely to the then burgeoning counterculture. Initially inspired by the songs of Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, Hank Williams, and the performance style of Little Richard, Dylan has both amplified and personalized musical genres, exploring numerous distinct traditions in American song—from folk, blues and country to gospel, rock and roll, and rockabilly, to English, Scottish, and Irish folk music, embracing even jazz and swing. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan
