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An edition of Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia (2014)

Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia

"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."--

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Language
English
Pages
256

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Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia
2014, Princeton Architectural Press
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Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia
2014, Princeton Architectural Press, Incorporated
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments. 14
Foreword / Wes Anderson. 16
One — A Preliminary Sketch of the Extraordinary Landscape of the Artist's Mind. 18
Mr. Magic / Adam Lerner. 20
Interview / Mark Mothersbaugh and Adam Lerner. 30
Two — The Birth of an Artful Polymath (or, How So Much More Than DEVO Emerged from a Turbulent and Creative Age). 54
Formative Years / Adam Lerner. 56
Punk Rock Futurist / Maria Elena Buszek. 76
Worried Man / Cary Levine. 90
Three — The Curious Characters and Astounding Machines That Populate His World. 100
Postcard Diaries. 102
Beautiful Mutants. 126
Roli Polis. 158
Rugs. 178
Orchestrions. 200
Four — More About the Epic Endeavor to Create a Lifelong Diary in the Form of 3O,000 Illustrated Postcards. 212
Extremely Disturbed / Steven Wolf. 214
Uncontrollable Urge / Shepard Fairey. 224
Timeline. 248
Contributors. 251
List of Works Illustrated. 252
Credits. 255

Edition Notes

"Published on occasion of the exhibition Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia, organized by Museum of Contemporary Art Denver."

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
Denver, Colorado

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
709.2
Library of Congress
N6537.M6697 M37 2014, N6537.M6697M37 2014

Contributors

Editor
Adam Lerner
Foreword
Wes Anderson

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
256 pages
Number of pages
256
Dimensions
27.5 x 22.5 x 2.7 centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27170122M
ISBN 10
1616892625
ISBN 13
9781616892623
LCCN
2014010992
OCLC/WorldCat
875056080

Work Description

This is a art exhibit book published to coincide with the "Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia" art exhibit, at the 'Museum of Contemporty Art Denver' from November 2014 - May 2015. There is a look into his early art, from journals, and diaries, as well as early examples of what would be his first book "My Struggle" written under the name Booji Boy. There are essays about various aspects of his art, a interview, and even photographs of his sculputeres, and his giving antique photographs a mirror effect, calling the images "Beautiful Mutants". Many of these images were also collected into a book with the same name. There are images of him and the band Devo, as well as many examples of his post card art, which had already serpassed a collection of 30,000 cards. A few of these postcards were also reproduced in the postcard box set, "Mark Mothersbaugh: Collected Facts & Lies", a box set of 50 reproduction postcards, also published by Princeton Architectural Press, for this event. There are three postcards in that set that do not appear in this book. This book also mentions Mark's composing music for films, as well as his interst in rugs, his character Roli Polis, and other artist projects. There are mini biographies about the contributors to the book, a timeline of Mark's life, a list of "works" featured in the book, as well as listing whom took the photographs of each of the images. This book originally sold for $40.00 in the USA, and £25.00 in the UK.

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