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Vacation from Reality
The Art of Anthony Ausgang
Anthony Ausgang
Justin Giarla
Justin Giarla
Anthony Ausgang
9mm Books
978-0-9766325-0-4
Limpbound, Section Stitch Sewn
Printed on Softcover
139, Full Color on Premium Gloss
$34.95
June 2007 |
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Anthony Ausgang's artwork covers a wide range of expression, from painting on
smashed muscle cars to invading other people's paintings with his Toon Existentialism.
Ausgang's crew of hopped-up action characters live in a parallel universe where cats
are descended from humans and cartoons are documentaries. But sometimes the hand
that feeds gets bitten; Ausgang isn't entirely in charge. Morphing toons drive rat rods
down an infinite dragstrip while a cat and a landscape switch places. In his world the
impossibilities are endless.
This book covers two decades of Anthony Ausgang's psychedelically influenced Low
Brow art. His paintings are included in definitive art collections and have been used as
cover art by a wide range of musicians. Shown extensively around the world, Ausgang's
art is your ticket to a Vacation From Reality. |
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Included essays by |
California native Chris Pfouts is a lifelong, bleeding-knuckle aficionado of internal
combustion in all its many splendors, as well an award-winning writer. He is an ardent
promoter of fringe culture and has written books on subjects including violence,
American decal art, and hula art. He belongs to the journalism honor society Kappa Tau
Alpha, and has worked as an armed guard, mortician's assistant and teamster. Pfouts has
been the editor of International Tattoo Art Magazine for more than fifteen years. He and
his wife Sherri live in the Midwest with five cats. - Contributor
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| Carlo McCormick is a popular culture critic and curator living in New York City. He is
the author of numerous books on contemporary art and has lectured and taught at
universities across the United States. He has written for Art in America, Art News,
Artforum, High Times, Spin, Tokion and many other magazines. His unique combination
of street credibility and high intellect makes him a valuable ally to both aesthetic
Anarchists and established Pop Culture figures. McCormick is Senior Editor of Paper
Magazine and currently curating shows for the Bronx Museum of Art. - Contributor |
News Bytes |
Pulsating with the hysterical energy of adolescence and rendered in shrill, Kool-Aid
colors, Anthony Ausgang's paintings are rooted in the anarchistic aesthetic of punk rock
and the skateboarding world.
- Kristine McKenna, L.A. Times
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Barring any element of academic conceit from his work, Anthony Ausgang has created
a psychotic kindergartner's vision of Saturday morning cartoons in which bellicose
hordes of playful feline folk and the outcast residue of many a lowlife detective novel run
amok. Thus he has been able to catch the observers unawares, all the better to seduce
them into his wild and beautiful world.
- John Tottenham, L.A. Weekly
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Ausgang's art is the iconography of an American childhood, infused with the aesthetic
of adolescent drug culture carried out with prolific fervor.
- Oriana Fox, L.A. Artland |
