Mambo: Art Irritates Life
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From the irreverent studios of Australia's most anarchic art collective comes Mambo: Art Irritates Life, a riotous and unapologetic celebration of subcultural rebellion, bad taste elevated to high art, and the gloriously grotesque. Mambo — the iconic Australian label and art movement born in the late 1980s — unleashes its signature cast of flatulent dogs, absurdist deities, and anti-establishment imagery in a collection that is as much a social commentary as it is a visual assault on conventional aesthetics. This volume chronicles the creative output of artists such as Reg Mombassa, Paul McNeil, and Garry Sprott, whose work gleefully dismantles the boundaries between commercial art, street culture, and fine art. Mambo's visual language is defiantly Australian — sun-bleached, larrikin, and deeply subversive — and this collection presents that language in its fullest, most confrontational form, arguing that art need not be polite to be profound. The work sits at the intersection of Pop Art, punk sensibility, and surf culture, drawing comparisons to the Dadaists in its commitment to chaos as a creative philosophy. For those who believe that art should provoke, offend, and ultimately illuminate the absurdity of modern life, this volume is an essential and electrifying document of one of the Southern Hemisphere's most original artistic voices — leaving the reader to wonder just how much of life's irritation is, in fact, its greatest inspiration.
Author: Mambo
Format: Paperback
Genre: The arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From the irreverent studios of Australia's most anarchic art collective comes Mambo: Art Irritates Life, a riotous and unapologetic celebration of subcultural rebellion, bad taste elevated to high art, and the gloriously grotesque. Mambo — the iconic Australian label and art movement born in the late 1980s — unleashes its signature cast of flatulent dogs, absurdist deities, and anti-establishment imagery in a collection that is as much a social commentary as it is a visual assault on conventional aesthetics. This volume chronicles the creative output of artists such as Reg Mombassa, Paul McNeil, and Garry Sprott, whose work gleefully dismantles the boundaries between commercial art, street culture, and fine art. Mambo's visual language is defiantly Australian — sun-bleached, larrikin, and deeply subversive — and this collection presents that language in its fullest, most confrontational form, arguing that art need not be polite to be profound. The work sits at the intersection of Pop Art, punk sensibility, and surf culture, drawing comparisons to the Dadaists in its commitment to chaos as a creative philosophy. For those who believe that art should provoke, offend, and ultimately illuminate the absurdity of modern life, this volume is an essential and electrifying document of one of the Southern Hemisphere's most original artistic voices — leaving the reader to wonder just how much of life's irritation is, in fact, its greatest inspiration.