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Karma - Tabboo!: 1982 88 - Hardcover
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Description: Early paintings and ephemera by Tabboo! full of 1980s New York punk glamour This clothbound volume appraises the formative years from 1982 to 1988, of legendary performer painter designer puppeteer and muse Tabboo!'s career. The book displays historical ephemera including homemade flyers for performances at iconic clubs along with the artist's paintings. Additionally an essay on the Glamorous Life by Jarrett Earnest explicates the thematic concerns of the catalog. In a 1995 interview with Linda Simpson about his early work Tabboo! observed: the subject matter was drag glamour ladies shoes lingerie hairdos vinyl same as now. Tabboo!: 1982 88 underscores the joy of creating and living exuberantly. Tabboo! (Stephen Tashjian born 1959) moved to New York City's East Village in 1982 and quickly established himself as a fixture in its drag scene. In the style of fellow Boston School artists Nan Goldin Jack Pierson and Mark Morrisroe he chronicled the zeitgeist with a raw diaristic approach. In his work dizzying visuals of nightlife and its cast of characters accompany affectionate portraits of his friends; seedy glamour and high camp meet in a jubilant fusion of collage paintings and photography. Not one to be an aloof observer Tabboo! was often photographed himself by Goldin Morrisroe Pierson Steven Meisel Steven Klein David Armstrong and Philip - Lorca di Corcia. Both creator and muse chronicler and participant he emblematizes the open experimentation central to the mythology of glamorous underground culture.
Title: Tabboo!: 1982 88
Brand: Karma
Barcode: 9781949172577
Pages: 136 Pages, 68 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 7/13/2021
Category: Individual Artists, Art Monographs
Description: Early paintings and ephemera by Tabboo! full of 1980s New York punk glamour This clothbound volume appraises the formative years from 1982 to 1988, of legendary performer painter designer puppeteer and muse Tabboo!'s career. The book displays historical ephemera including homemade flyers for performances at iconic clubs along with the artist's paintings. Additionally an essay on the Glamorous Life by Jarrett Earnest explicates the thematic concerns of the catalog. In a 1995 interview with Linda Simpson about his early work Tabboo! observed: the subject matter was drag glamour ladies shoes lingerie hairdos vinyl same as now. Tabboo!: 1982 88 underscores the joy of creating and living exuberantly. Tabboo! (Stephen Tashjian born 1959) moved to New York City's East Village in 1982 and quickly established himself as a fixture in its drag scene. In the style of fellow Boston School artists Nan Goldin Jack Pierson and Mark Morrisroe he chronicled the zeitgeist with a raw diaristic approach. In his work dizzying visuals of nightlife and its cast of characters accompany affectionate portraits of his friends; seedy glamour and high camp meet in a jubilant fusion of collage paintings and photography. Not one to be an aloof observer Tabboo! was often photographed himself by Goldin Morrisroe Pierson Steven Meisel Steven Klein David Armstrong and Philip - Lorca di Corcia. Both creator and muse chronicler and participant he emblematizes the open experimentation central to the mythology of glamorous underground culture.
Title: Tabboo!: 1982 88
Brand: Karma
Barcode: 9781949172577
Pages: 136 Pages, 68 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 7/13/2021
Category: Individual Artists, Art Monographs
