Surf Culture: The Art History of Surfing

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Summary: Stecyk does it again
Review: After elevating the development of skateboarding from criminal activity to its proper place in modern culture with Dogtown and Z-Boys Stecyk, a long-time contributor to The Surfer's Journal, presents the artifacts of surfing culture in an equally intelligent manner. This book is developed from the recent exhibition at the Laguna Arts Museum. A must have for anyone interested in surfing. Steyck has come a long way from epoxying bronzed roadkill to major California roadways. He's an artist too.

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Summary: pretender
Review: i surfed with david carson a couple of times
for all his talk the guy is a total fraud!
he sat on the shoulder and didnt catch anything for hours


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Summary: Great Content... Poor Design
Review: If you're looking for a good book on the art history of surfing and surf culture, unfortunately this is NOT it. "Surf Life 32 to 02" by Tom Adler & Quiksilver is a much more accurate depiction of surf history and culture... which is tastefully presented. "Surf Culture The Art History of Surfing" could have been an excellent representation of the Surf Culture art exhibit if it wasn't for the EXTREAMLY poor editorial design by David Carson! Pure and utter chaos! What a waste! What was he thinking? Books are for reading, not for designers to "express" themselves... not to such a chaotic extent anyway. "We Approach Our Martinis with Such High Expectations" by Jamie Brisick is an excellent read on surfing as well. Perhaps Jamie can give David some lessons on what real art is.

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Summary: Surf Culture - The Art History of Surfing
Review: Surf Culture is an amazing marriage of words and pictures. David Carson's "interpretation" is pitch-perfect, a complete masterpiece. It's all here: an historical perspective, tons of full bleed imagery and contemporary artistic musings on the aesthetics of surfing. I suppose the "hater" with the negative review would propose a clean rectilinear design, too bad the whole thing just went right over his head.

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Summary: Surf Culture - The Art History of Surfing
Review: Surf Culture is an amazing marriage of words and pictures. David Carson's "interpretation" is pitch-perfect, a complete masterpiece. It's all here: an historical perspective, tons of full bleed imagery and contemporary artistic musings on the aesthetics of surfing. I suppose the "hater" with the negative review would propose a clean rectilinear design, too bad the whole thing just went right over his head.