Editor: Julie Lasky
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Publication: 2001, First Edition
Binding: Softcover, section sewn
Pages: 160
Size: 240 x 285
Text: English
ISBN: 0811823652
(Preface) 'ART CHANTRY HAS CARVED a place for himself in design history with his social agitation, visual wit, and raw vision. Some People Can't Surf: The Graphic Design of Art Chantry is the first survey of his work, which helped define and popularize Seattle's cultural life at a time when punk and grunge styles moved from the underground to the mainstream. His no-frills posters and album covers are raw on the surface but belie a classical approach to composition that renders them timeless. Shunning computers and often working with shoestring budgets, he is a traditionalist at heart. The results are powerful collisions of refracted type and period imagery that have garnered him international attention. The subject of a 1993 show at the Seattle Art Museum and winner of countless design awards, Chantry also has work held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Julie Lasky, former managing editor of Print magazine, brings this unique designer into full view. Bursting with several hundred examples of Chantry's voluminous work and designed by Chantry himself, Some People Can't Surf is a manifesto for imagination over technology.'
Condition: Very Good. Shelf ware consistent with age. Light rubbing and tanning to cover/edges.
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