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Title: Just Above the Mantelpiece: Mass-Market Masterpieces by Hemingway Wayne ISBN: 1-86154-194-5 Publisher: Booth-Clibborn Editions Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: STUNNING BOOK ON KITSCH ART MANTLEPIECE MASTERPIECES
Comment: 'Just Above The Mantlepiece' is a weird journey through your childhood that will bring back good and bad memories of the art prints that adorned your quirky Aunt & Uncles house or your sisters room. This art is fast becoming highly collectible again through the resurgence of the 'Big Eye' art movement made famous by Margaret Keane. Remember those sad big-eyed animals,the misfit and street urchin paintings,the crying children, Tretchikoff's Green Lady and 50's exotic women, the voluptuous South Sea Island brunettes of JH Lynch, the cute Maio girls with cats or mandolins, and those little Go Go kids by Eve or Lee. You do? Well this book is full of such mass market art memories, a popular art genre never before acknowleged or given respect in such a glorious way. This book even has some pages printed with an extra copy of the art for framing, as it was meant to be. A true Celebration of our popular culture, and a great reference guide for the lounge art collector. Robert Rechter.
Rating: 5
Summary: Don't tell me it's not art!
Comment: Neat treatment of the subject that mercifully ISN'T loaded with campy, "hip" contempt or irony. Hemingway genuinely likes this stuff and so do I. American readers will be entertained because much of this is British or European mass-market art that wasn't as popular here, but should have been! I'm amazed at the selection British big-eyes paintings that are such odd relations to their Keaney American cousins. The book has a great design with several of the lithos duplicated "post-it" style over their pages in the book so you can take them out and frame them yourself while keeping the book intact. Unfortunately they're not necessarily the ones I would have picked, like the Tretchikoffs, probably for copyright reasons. Come on, manufacturers, take a tip from Hemingway's book and let's bring back the days of saucer-eyed kidz, bright oil-painting colors and .... as accents for the living room!
Rating: 4
Summary: From Trash to Cash
Comment: Andy Warhol understood the conflict between the tastes of the masses and what's considered "Good Art" by the cognoscenti. His soup can and Marilyn Monroe took common icons and created pop icons instantly. This was one of the 20th Century's most brilliant comments on "us" and the world of art. The conflict between the rarified world of fine art and popular art is really fascinating, and this book hits the mark.
King of Kitsch Hemmingway does a great job here of describing various popular artworks and why they've made the transition from "bad" to "beloved." A fun book, and a great concept, complete with peel-off art for your very own.
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Title: 20th Century Icons-Kitsch by Wayne Hemingway ISBN: 1899791973 Publisher: Absolute Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Kitsch Deluxe by Lesley Gillilan ISBN: 1840007168 Publisher: Mitchell Beazley Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Big-Eyed Masters: The Big-Eyed Craze of the 1960s and the Artists Who Made It Happen by Matthew Sweet, Megan Besmirched, Lisa Sweet ISBN: 0867195495 Publisher: Last Gasp Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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