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Julian Balme - Kustom Graphics: Hot Rods, Burlesque and Rock 'n' Roll (2008)

Julian Balme - Kustom Graphics: Hot Rods, Burlesque and Rock 'n' Roll (2008)

Finally! Finally a book that smells of grease, motor oil, sex, speed, rock n 'roll pioneers .... and death! Here is a book that plunges you into the mire of the underground culture of the 50s and the U.S. to blow of pencil sober and garish ...

From Johnny Ace (and his partner Kali Verra) continuing the tradition of Ed Roth and Rat Fink on behalf of the shows Reverent Horton Heat, Link Wray, Electric Frankenstein, Rob Zombie and many others stars of what we will call abusively psychobilly. This pair is therefore the hot rods of impeccable frenchy Empire 32 , aesthetics and compelling up to pine Mark Wasyll Tyson McAdoo or the beautiful but hideous creatures of the Quebec Felix LaFlamme . through the Japanese prints of the (Japanese) Ken The Flattop or Fudemae , c is a real world tour of this art so that it no longer needs codifies boundaries that invites us Kustom Graphics.

surf culture, hot rods, monsters, Series Z, alluring pin up and skulls, devils and motors on vitamin-veiled codes and gender, whatever their origin, all the artists there fold course without losing a single ounce of their personality and it is what makes this book. a priori so elitist, a treat: see once again the diversity of results obtained from an identical base yet. Imagination, talent and, let's not mince words, genius do the rest and these three elements, the artists here do not miss!

40 artists represented also distributed to the 4 corners of the planet, of adventure, for Christmas, you are looking for a tattoo idea for the future of your beautiful mother, no doubt that the drawing is already here , superbly value format, which, unusually, allows to appreciate all the details.