The Sad Sack (Classics of Modern American Humor Series)

GEORGE BAKER

Ams Pr Inc

In 1970 Robert Smithson (1938-1973), one of the most innovative and provocative artists of the twentieth century, created the landmark earthwork Spiral Jetty at Rozel Point on Utah's Great Salt Lake. This dramatic and highly influential work forms a coil 1,500 feet long and 15 feet wide and stretches out counterclockwise into the lake's translucent red water. Composed of black basalt rocks and earth, the sculpture comprises the materials of its location: mud, salt crystals, rocks, water. The contributors to this comprehensive publication consider the sculpture in relation to its eponymous companions—a text work and a film. These essays situate this renowned series of works alongside Smithson's critical writings, proposals, drawings, sources, and models. Amply illustrated with archival and new photographs of the Jetty and many comparative illustrations, this book makes evident why Smithson's art and writings have had such a powerful impact on art and art theory for over thirty years.

Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty

Ann Reynolds

Lytle Shaw

Robert Smithson

Diana Thater

bob-phillips

History

University of California Press

The Way to Wexford

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Headline Book Publishing

Irish artist Gerard Byrne (1969) focuses on the way photography and film have influenced visual culture in the twentieth century. Byrne's conceptually-based photos and videos explore the genealogies underlying each picture, the different frames which guide its perception, as well as the references in which a mediated image evolves. Demonstrating a wide-ranging engagement with quotation and citation, the work seizes upon mass-media forms that were never intended to serve as ''models,'' but now have become such. ----------- George Baker has written a theoretical essay where he links Byrne's work to theater and notes that the presence of avant-garde dramatist Bertolt Brecht has never been less discussed, but more widely explored, than in the last decade of artistic practice. The author traces ''a set of provisional conjectures about the 'underground connection' of ... contemporary art to the present forms of capitalist crisis. They are new forms on both sides--the crises and transformatio

Gerard Byrne: Books, Magazines, and Newspapers (Pocket-Book, 9)

Arts & Photography

Baker, George

Individual Artists

Sternberg Press

Wow! Harvey Heroes Historical Series I. Sad Sack® kicks off this great classic comic series! Introducing funtastic new characters Sweetie Sack and Sea Sack along with all the usual Funny Friends. Muttsy, Sarge, General Rockjaw, Nap Sack, Hi Fi, Slob, Skater Sack, Ol' Sod Sack and the rest of the gang are all here in this new oversized spectacular! Features include Sad Sack as The Sun Power Kid in "“Sunny Future"”; Sad Sack's amazing invention is appropriated by the Army'’s research and development program! Solar powered laughs abound in this bright new story! Meet Sad Sack's beautiful cousin Sweetie Sack. Sad Sack visits actress and model Sweetie Sack on the set of her TV show, it's a busy day filled with glamour and laughs galore! Another new Sad Sack cousin Sea Sack tells a sea story of his journey in the South Pacific. Plus more Sad Sack Navy Gobs and Gals, Knave Sad Sack, Skater Sack, Muttsy, Ol'’ Sod Sack and Little Sad. An Extra Big Issue filled with Extra Big Fun and Laughs!

Sad Sack No.292

Evelyn Johnson

Fred Rhoads

Alfred Harvey

Big H Books

The Sad Sack Collector's Pack 1 (6 issues) $15.95 Sad Sack® is back! With all his Funny Friends! Get in on the laughs with, the Sad Sack® Sarge Circle, Sadie Sack, Muttsy the Talking Dog, General Rockjaw, Slob Slobinski, Hi-Fi Tweeter and the rest of the troops. An Army Life Fun Parade in every issue! With five covers by Sad Sack creator George Baker! Issues include: Sad Sack® Comics No.288, 289, 290, 291, The Original SAD SACK® #1 and Sad Sack® at Home for the Holidays #1.

Sad Sack Collector's Pack No.1

Jack O'Brien

Joe Dennett

Paul McCarthy

Ken Selig

Recollections Comics

Gurdjieff

Jacob Needleman

Bloomsbury UK

Louise Lawler subjects the concept of art to critical analysis by re-photographing her own drawings, paintings, and sculptures and incorporating aspects of their immediate surroundings into these "copies." Viewed with a certain detachment, her demystified reproductions also reveal the contextual and situational connotations of her artworks, which recede to a certain extent into the background. Lawler also applies these methods to the work of other artists, photographing their art pieces, particularly as they are mounted in private collections. These contextualizing photographs retain fragments of their surroundings, thus clarifying how the presentation and interpretation of artwork is never free of value judgment or environmental influence. This publication offers the first retrospective overview of the artistic accomplishments of Louise Lawler over the past 20 years. Included are a number of very recent works, some of them created especially for this book.

Louise Lawler And Others

Isabelle Graw

Birgit Pelzer

Philipp Kaiser

Andrea Fraser

Jack Bankowsky

Hatje Cantz Publishers

Best known for her performance critiques of art institutions, art publications, art sponsorship, and cultural transfer--think subversive museum docent--Andrea Fraser is one of the more prominent artists to raise institutional criticism to the level of art itself. Since the early 90s, when she would stage tours through exhibitions or hold discussions on art, her work has developed a more deliberately visual character. Working now mostly in video installation, Fraser produces such imagery as Soldadera, a video in which she plays a revolutionary on horseback, evoking the time of the Mexican revolution and the problem of North-American influence on Mexico in the 1930s. In Exhibition, she appears as a scantily-clad Samba dancer, demonstrating the important place of popular culture in an art context. This monograph, the most complete published on the artist to date, reveals the diversity of her work; also included are her critical texts, documents fundamental to the interpretation of her artistic oeuvre.

Yilmaz Dziewior

DuMont

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by GEORGE BAKER. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by GEORGE BAKER