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Title: Fresh Cream by Editors of Phaidon Press ISBN: 0-7148-3924-8 Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc. Pub. Date: 11 January, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.62 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Ooh, La La!!
Comment: Rarely does a book's presentation make you squeal before you actually open it, but WOW!!! Don't buy this one used if you can help it! It comes packaged in it's very own blow-up pillow, and unless you know something I don't know, you have to destroy the pretty packaging in order to look inside!
The book itself is several years out of date now, but still remains one of my top favorite resources for contemporary visual and performance art. Always filled with unique and exciting imagery from around the globe, the Phaidon Cream series is rich in content, as well as presentation!!
Rating: 3
Summary: Horrible book Design,
Comment: The best thing about the book, was that it came in the clear plastic floater thingy. For an artbook this is a horrible design, its hard to look at, the pictures are small becuase of the deminsions of the book, it works better as a sculputer or even a life raft then a book, which is ruined once you open it.
As for the art it contains, well I guess they call it "cream" because the cream always rises, backed up by the fact that it comes in a bag that will float to the top. Well, judging by the art/artist withing the book, they should have designed it as a target, because its hit and miss.
There is some really good and interesting stuff, but far too much endulgent junk,I'm surprised they didn't include that artist that does enema art. It is definately pro new media, instillations, video etc. and that stuff is hard to document adequately for presentation in a book, much less a book as badly designed as this. But maybe that is where this book succeds the most, the design is as kitchy(spelling) as the work it contains, excluding the actually good interesting stuff.
This is bad example of the artworld trying to find the "new thing" by displaying artist that are trying to find what I call "the thing", the enema artist, the aids artist, the womens issue artist, the gunpowder artist, the process orientated artist, the elephant dung artist, ya know the kind of artist that focus on the "thing" instead of making great art. Most are in search of their little hook. So the few good artist in the book get overshadowed by all the imature/cliche/insearch of the "thing"/asthetically unaware artist and the horrendous design of the book.
If you still buy it, don't open it, just put it on your shelf because it seems cool, which is probably what was intended in the first place and how the artist were selected for inclusion.
Rating: 4
Summary: fun book, good introduction
Comment: I bought this book at the MoMA in November 2000, because I had the first one, Cream, and I enjoyed that one. In physical dimensions, I think Fresh Cream was an improvement from the horizontally wide and floppy paperback binding of Cream. The packaging itself was an interesting addition, and rather appropriate in the context of what this book presented, but in the manner of not judging a book by its cover, the packaging takes a back seat to the contents.
This book, like the first, is a good introduction to one of the edges in modern art, and allowed me to learn more about artists whose work i had seen, and new ones. Concepts are what drive revolution and change in art, and while it isnt possible to include each and every concept behind each and every single work of art ever produced, Fresh Cream did well by providing brief insights into the leading concepts behind the most contemporary work which has been recognized in galleries and shows.
I rated this book at a 4, not a 5, since the book is not as readable as I'd like it to be, and could have done without some artists, as well as included some others. Strictly speaking of content, I liked the first one, Cream, better.
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Title: Cream 3 by Editors of Phaidon Press ISBN: 0714843113 Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc. Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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Title: Vitamin P by Barry Schwabsky ISBN: 071484246X Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc. Pub. Date: 23 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $69.95 |
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Title: Blink. by Editors of Phaidon Press ISBN: 0714841994 Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc. Pub. Date: 31 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $69.95 |
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Title: Cream: Contemporary Art in Culture by Editors of Phaidon ISBN: 0714838012 Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc. Pub. Date: 15 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Art Now by Uta Grosenick ISBN: 382281444X Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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