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Malicious Resplendence: The Paintings of Robert Williams
The definitive collection of the oeuvre of the infamous low-brow artist Robert Williams. This is simply the most handsome book in the 23 year history of Fantagraphics. 300 pages in a 12' x 12' full-color format features over 200 paintings spanning Williams' life and career, reproduced with breathtaking clarity on glossy paper.
- GenresArt
300 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1998
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May 28, 2009
The ultimate Robert Williams compilation, America's premier artist never fails to amuse and astound with his complex and intense visions. The book includes a bio on the wild man himself (goofin' off with Crumb and S. Clay) and insane fever dreams spanning over thirty years of insanity.
All the hits are here: Hot Rod Race, Appetite For Destruction (the infamous G&R cover), the Hitchhiker Arm-Hacker, the Deborah Harry Almost-Killed-By-Ted-Bundy death trap painting, Apathy Sickle, and all the syphilitic strumpets you can handle prone on tacos, hot dogs, clams, a BLT, etc.
Williams' subtitles to his paintings are a hoot, too, like in "The Day Joe Smiley 'Ate The Bad Oyster'" showing a John Q. Public hunched over a fire hydrant chucking his shucked shellfish, "Ptomaine Butt-Cherries On The Half-Shell". Top that, Shag! Then there's "The Tooth Fairy", showing the fantasy version of the tooth fairy and then blowing up the reality, a bitter cancer-stick sucking floozy aka the "Pack Rat-Minded Beatnik Bitch With A Need For Your Calcium". Sounds like art to me, Butch!
All the hits are here: Hot Rod Race, Appetite For Destruction (the infamous G&R cover), the Hitchhiker Arm-Hacker, the Deborah Harry Almost-Killed-By-Ted-Bundy death trap painting, Apathy Sickle, and all the syphilitic strumpets you can handle prone on tacos, hot dogs, clams, a BLT, etc.
Williams' subtitles to his paintings are a hoot, too, like in "The Day Joe Smiley 'Ate The Bad Oyster'" showing a John Q. Public hunched over a fire hydrant chucking his shucked shellfish, "Ptomaine Butt-Cherries On The Half-Shell". Top that, Shag! Then there's "The Tooth Fairy", showing the fantasy version of the tooth fairy and then blowing up the reality, a bitter cancer-stick sucking floozy aka the "Pack Rat-Minded Beatnik Bitch With A Need For Your Calcium". Sounds like art to me, Butch!
February 19, 2009
This was out of print for a while. I was so pleased when I was able to buy it from Amazon at a reasonable price. For a while there it was going on Ebay for hundreds of dollars. If you like Robt. Williams, you pretty much have to have this.
April 19, 2015
My all time favorite artist!! It was a must have back in art school.
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