Wild Art - Hardcover

Pissarro, Joachim; Carrier, David

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Synopsis

Wild Art is an incredibly vivid, colourful and current collection of over 300 extraordinary artworks that are too offbeat, outrageous, kitsch, quirky or funky to 'make it' in the formal art world of galleries and museums. From pimped cars and graffiti to extreme body art, ice sculpture, flash mobs, burlesque acts, portraits made from bottle tops, paintings made by animals, light shows, carnivals and giant artworks that can only truly be appreciated from the air, this book has it all. The works featured here are variously moving, funny or shocking, celebrating the beauty and art in anything and everything.

Authors David Carrier and Joachim Pissarro have studied alternative and underground art forms and cultures for years and have compiled the ultimate collection of creative works to challenge and engage every reader's perception of what is and isn't art.

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About the Author

Joachim Pissarro is currently the Bershad Professor of Art History and Director of the Hunter College Galleries at the City University of New York (CUNY).  He was formerly a Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. With a background in German philosophy, his teaching and writing presently focus on the challenges facing art history due to the unprecedented proliferation of art works, images and visual data.

David Carrier is an American philosopher and art and culture critic.  He was was formerly Champney Family Professor, a post divided between Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Institute of Art, and prior to that a professor of philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University.  He has written extensively on the history and philosophy of art writing, art museums and world art history, and about the aesthetics of the comic strip.

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