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Nakamura Eric - Giant Robot Thirty Years Of Defining Asian American Pop Culture - Hardcover
Nakamura Eric - Giant Robot Thirty Years Of Defining Asian American Pop Culture - Hardcover
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Description: Celebrating the pop culture phenomenon that redefined what it meant to be Asian - American with tributes from Margaret Cho Randall Park Jia Tolentino and more. Los Angeles 1994. Two Asian - American punk rockers staple together the zine of their dreams featuring Sumo Hong Kong Cinema and Osamu Tezuka. From the very margins of the DIY press and alternative culture Giant Robot burst into the mainstream with over 60,000 copies in circulation annually at its peak. Giant Robot even popped right off the page setting up a restaurant gallery and storefronts in L a as well as galleries and stores in New York and San Francisco. As their influence grew in the 90s and 00s Giant Robot was eventually invited to the White House by Barack Obama to speak at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and to curate the GR Biennale at the Japanese American National Museum. Home to a host of unapologetically authentic perspectives bridging the bicultural gap between Asian and Asian - American pop culture GR had the audacity to print such topics side - by - side and become a touchstone for generations of artists musicians creators and collectors of all kinds in a pre - social media era. Nowhere else were pieces on civil rights activists running next to articles on skateboarding and Sriracha. Toy collectors cartoonists and street style pioneers got as many column inches as Michelle Yeoh Karen O James Jean and Haruki Murakami. Giant Robot: Thirty Years of Defining Asian - American Pop Culture features the best of the magazine's sixty - eight issue run alongside never - before - seen photographs supplementary writing by long - term contributing journalist Claudine Ko and tributes from now - famous fans who ve been around since day one. Margaret Cho Daniel Wu and Randall Park celebrate Giant Robot's enduring legacy alongside pioneering pro - skateboarder Peggy Oki contemporary art giant Takashi Murakami culinary darling Natasha Pickowicz and critically acclaimed essayist Jia Tolentino.
Title: Giant Robot Thirty Years Of Defining Asian American Pop Culture
Author(s): Nakamura Eric
Publisher: Drawn And Quarterly
Barcode: 9781770467132
Pages: 400 Pages, Full-Colour Illustrations Throughout
Publication Date: 10/22/2024
Category: Antiques & Collectables: Books, Manuscripts, Ephemera & Printed Matter
Description: Celebrating the pop culture phenomenon that redefined what it meant to be Asian - American with tributes from Margaret Cho Randall Park Jia Tolentino and more. Los Angeles 1994. Two Asian - American punk rockers staple together the zine of their dreams featuring Sumo Hong Kong Cinema and Osamu Tezuka. From the very margins of the DIY press and alternative culture Giant Robot burst into the mainstream with over 60,000 copies in circulation annually at its peak. Giant Robot even popped right off the page setting up a restaurant gallery and storefronts in L a as well as galleries and stores in New York and San Francisco. As their influence grew in the 90s and 00s Giant Robot was eventually invited to the White House by Barack Obama to speak at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and to curate the GR Biennale at the Japanese American National Museum. Home to a host of unapologetically authentic perspectives bridging the bicultural gap between Asian and Asian - American pop culture GR had the audacity to print such topics side - by - side and become a touchstone for generations of artists musicians creators and collectors of all kinds in a pre - social media era. Nowhere else were pieces on civil rights activists running next to articles on skateboarding and Sriracha. Toy collectors cartoonists and street style pioneers got as many column inches as Michelle Yeoh Karen O James Jean and Haruki Murakami. Giant Robot: Thirty Years of Defining Asian - American Pop Culture features the best of the magazine's sixty - eight issue run alongside never - before - seen photographs supplementary writing by long - term contributing journalist Claudine Ko and tributes from now - famous fans who ve been around since day one. Margaret Cho Daniel Wu and Randall Park celebrate Giant Robot's enduring legacy alongside pioneering pro - skateboarder Peggy Oki contemporary art giant Takashi Murakami culinary darling Natasha Pickowicz and critically acclaimed essayist Jia Tolentino.
Title: Giant Robot Thirty Years Of Defining Asian American Pop Culture
Author(s): Nakamura Eric
Publisher: Drawn And Quarterly
Barcode: 9781770467132
Pages: 400 Pages, Full-Colour Illustrations Throughout
Publication Date: 10/22/2024
Category: Antiques & Collectables: Books, Manuscripts, Ephemera & Printed Matter
