Wounds of the Tongue

Wounds of the Tongue
ISBN-10
1889195103
ISBN-13
9781889195100
Category
Art / Individual Artists / General
Pages
79
Language
English
Published
1997
Publisher
Smart Art Press
Authors
Chon A. Noriega, Kevin Power, Manuel Ocampo

Description

One of the most important young artists to have emerged from Los Angeles in the 1990s, Manuel Ocampo updates the tradition of political allegorists like Gericault, Goya, and Daumier. In this beautifully illustrated catalogue, Ocampo's exuberant works incorporate high and low, academic and popular, sacred and secular images and texts-creating supercharged canvases with a blatant disregard for stylistic and idiomatic consistency. Gutsy, bold, and filled with sociopolitical critique, Ocampo practices the art of the alchemist: "Transforming horror into exquisite beauty, history into art, purgatory into salvation." Essays by Chon Noriega and Kevin Power, and a conversation between Ocampo and Daniel J. Martinez. Edited by Pilar Perez.

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