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Summary: MOBA - More of Bad Art...Please!!!
Review: A light look at what some may have considered serious paintings. I love it! Love the graphics and love the theme. I've sent copies to people in California, Seattle, Georgia, and Massachusetts, and every time a friend receives it, I get orders for more for their friends. It's a must for every coffee table in America! Keep them coming Tom and Marie!!!
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Summary: An excellent converation piece
Review: I visited the MOBA at its cinema basement location in Massachusetts, and was enchanted. I am so glad that this book came out to help make the collection visible to a larger audience. Like bad poetry (see "Pegasus Descending" by Waldrop), bad art at its best is unbelievably hilarious. Some bad art is merely bad, but the utter sincerity with which the works in this collection were painted accounts for much laughter. If by some chance you can't tell why the thing is so bad, there are helpful titles and captions by the authors to explain it to you. My favorite is one called "Pals," in which a sad clown with five o'clock shadow is comforted by a monkey that has "Bette Davis Eyes!"
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Summary: You will never look at art in the same way again
Review: I was moved to tears by this blockbuster of a paen to all that is bad in art. Generations of artists have had to suffer the slings and arrows of art criticism on the grounds that their work "wasn't good enough." Just like the bubblegum song "Even the Bad Times are Good," this book that proves that "Even the Bad Art is Good."
Be thankful for one thing - the art itself is many times worse in person, so to speak.
I live in hope that somewhere there is a Grandchild Moses - or many of them - who will create art that deserves its place in the gallery. Let us show that (to quote Varese), "The present day artist refuses to die!" (in spite of continued entreaties from family and friends).
So buy this book and get Art out of the galleries and onto your coffee-table, where it belongs
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Summary: A must-have for art lovers with a sense of humor
Review: If you've ever been to a serious art museum - especially the (all too common) kind that takes itself too seriously - this book will be an absolute, thigh-slapping hoot. Now you can find out what would happen if a curator got hold of that stuff Uncle Nick used to turn out in adult ed art class. Coffee-table quality paper and reproductions of the Art, but paper binding keeps the cost within reason. Get a whole bunch for gifts
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Summary: Clearly the best book in Amazon's vast catalog
Review: Never before in this institution's proud history has a book captured the essence of the museum and its breathtaking collection like this one does.
Ms. Jackson and Mr. Stankowicz will forever be remembered in the annals of bad art history for their important contributions.
---Jerry Reilly,
Executive Director,
Museum Of Bad Art
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Summary: Hilarious
Review: One of the funniest books I've ever seen. All my friends loved it- I'm an high school art teacher, and after years of perusing tedious, high concept modern dreck, Tom and Marie's book is just what the doctor ordered.My colleagues and I agreed that we've all done at least one artwork that should be in MOBA! There are so many bad pieces here, it's hard to say which is the worst ( or is the best?) Encore!
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Summary: A Feast for the Soul
Review: The Museum of Bad Art is a long overdue book, and I was so happy to finally get a copy. This is the one art exhibit I would gladly pay to see in person.
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Summary: A Feast for the Soul
Review: The Museum of Bad Art is a long overdue book, and I was so happy to finally get a copy. This is the one art exhibit I would gladly pay to see in person.
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Summary: Hilarious
Review: This is another boonie dog book review from Wolfie and Kansas. The catalog of the Musem of Bad Art, "The Museum of Bad Art: Art Too Bad to Be Ignore", by Tom Stankowicz and Marie Jackson, is one of the most fascinating art books we have ever perused. Indeed, the only art books we have enjoyed more are canicentric works such as "Funny Dogs", edited by Jean-Claude Suares, and Andrea Mohin's "New York Dogs".As bad as the works displayed in this book are, many of them still have an element of inner truth. "In the Cat's Mouth" and "Peter the Cat" both capture the parasitic, pompous, evil nature of cats. From a canine perspective, many of the paintings of humans in this collection are not too different from our perceptions of noncanine animals of primate derivation. Perhaps some of these "bad" paintings were actually painted by dogs making fun of their "masters". Finally, the bulging eyes and frightening smile of the dog in the mixed media piece "The Cupboard Was Bare" give it an eerie resemblance to Kansas.
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Summary: Bad but true.
Review: This is another boonie dog book review from Wolfie and Kansas. The catalog of the Musem of Bad Art, "The Museum of Bad Art: Art Too Bad to Be Ignore", by Tom Stankowicz and Marie Jackson, is one of the most fascinating art books we have ever perused. Indeed, the only art books we have enjoyed more are canicentric works such as "Funny Dogs", edited by Jean-Claude Suares, and Andrea Mohin's "New York Dogs". As bad as the works displayed in this book are, many of them still have an element of inner truth. "In the Cat's Mouth" and "Peter the Cat" both capture the parasitic, pompous, evil nature of cats. From a canine perspective, many of the paintings of humans in this collection are not too different from our perceptions of noncanine animals of primate derivation. Perhaps some of these "bad" paintings were actually painted by dogs making fun of their "masters". Finally, the bulging eyes and frightening smile of the dog in the mixed media piece "The Cupboard Was Bare" give it an eerie resemblance to Kansas.
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