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Summary: FauxAdvertising w/ Retro Imagery? How Truly Subversive & Rad
Review: The best thing about the end of the millenium is we finally got rid of that Beatkit guy! The '40s advertising imagery ("detourned," 'natch), the slacker irony, the '70s typography & color schemes, the sub-Negativland/ Andre sticker campaign--who cares about any of it? It's all eye candy for slow indie-rockers and beat freaks who find "The Baffler" profound. This material is all handled so dunderheadedly by Mr. Wolfe, no wonder it had to be printed in a vanity edition. One can always trust Dave Carson to have his finger on a dead pulse.
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Summary: Grinding your teeth for your Art.
Review: The raw, "reality art" technique of Wolfe is gritty to say the least. This book makes you really *feel* that grit. You can feel it rubbing against your insides like so much sand caught in your shorts at the beach. It leaves you raw, red, but still wanting to be "out there" just a few minutes longer. I suggest you pick this up. If you are in any way a fan of the "brutalis immaculos" movement, you will not be disappointed.
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Summary: Grinding your teeth for your Art.
Review: The raw, "reality art" technique of Wolfe is gritty to say the least. This book makes you really *feel* that grit. You can feel it rubbing against your insides like so much sand caught in your shorts at the beach. It leaves you raw, red, but still wanting to be "out there" just a few minutes longer. I suggest you pick this up. If you are in any way a fan of the "brutalis immaculos" movement, you will not be disappointed.
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Summary: A bum-licking Dragon
Review: The summers of my childhood were spent with my head stuffed in a trunk. My nimble fingers groped for Legos in a vat of sweat, dust and debris; a plastic prospector, searching for the perfect design to assign to the heat induced delusions of poor ventilation. It was then that I saw it, the bum-licking dragon- The visage hovered above me, dripping salivary stink onto my brow-- anointing my cranium with crud-stench... In the tangerine bliss that followed I had a glimpse of the future. That glimpse was this book, "Uncanny," and Shawn Wolfe is that dragon. Amen.
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Summary: What Is This Book!
Review: There are days I am overcome with a sad nostalgia for the Past. I begin to feel suffocated by life's overblown pace and unfulfilled promises. Then there are days I pick up Uncanny and am met with an overwhelming sense of clarity, of purpose, and of blissful harmony with the Past, Present and Future. The art in Uncanny is the epitomy of timelessness. It is apparant that Wolfe is in total control of his own existence and the confidence with which he welcomes the reader into his World is incredibly selfless. In short, Uncanny: The Art & Design of Shawn Wolfe fulfills its promise and I highly recommend it!
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Summary: UN. . . believable!
Review: This book shines, a marvelous addition to any collection . If monkeys, muscle cars, defunct superheroes, and crazy bio-mechanical thingies are your bag, then you gotta get two. A real page turner. It will keep you guessing until the very end, and then some.
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Summary: A compelling read
Review: This has to be the most interesting book ever written. Why? I'm not sure, but if you read it, I think it just might speak for itself. The title alone is so, well, UNCANNY. It represents the book so concisely, and so profoundly. I highly recommend reading books, and this is most certainly a book! Enjoy it!
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Summary: How do you spell releef?
Review: This is a book where nothing doesn't mean the same of what it didn't say.
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Summary: Too True
Review: Well, it's no Catcher in the Rye. It's more like Ulysses, but with pictures, in fast-forward scramble mode. This book is for everyone who ever had that nagging feeling that life might not actually be as glossy or moody or ecstatic or normal as it appears on TV.
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Summary: The time is now seven a.m.
Review: What's most enjoyable about this book is what I find most genius about Wolfe's artwork itself: He uses the methods by which advertising operates, the co-optation of ideas and trends, and throws it right back in advertising's face. What emerges is just how absurd advertising really is, and in a bigger sense, that we allow ourselves to live in a world in which it dominates. Wolfe is a cultural alarm clock and this book is his wake-up call. Rise and shine people.
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