Eye Infection Author:Robert Storr, Jim Nutt, Peter Saul, H.C. Westermann, R. Crumb Here are five artists rarely mentioned in the same sentence--and never before collected in one book. How to reconcile Crumb's cult-status comic offenses with Kelley's taboo, childish handiwork and Nutt's measured, dogged portraits? How to link Saul's violent, colorful caricatures with Westermann's eccentric folk fancies? Though none belong firml... more »y to the artistic mainstream, each of these artistic mavericks has exerted a strong influence on their contemporaries and on generations of younger artists--infecting their eyes, if you will, with a shared visual language influenced by comic books, advertisements, folk art, and daily life. Often run through with explicit sexuality and violence, and always visually bombastic, the works presented in "Eye Infection" are not for the faint-hearted or soft-eyed but for the pop-culture afficionado, the surreptitious comics reader, the humorist, the eccentric, and, of course, the follower of contemporary art. Featuring Robert Crumb Mike Kelley Jim Nutt Peter Saul H.C. Westermann
Essay by Robert Storr. Introduction by Rudi Fuchs. 9.5 x 11.25 in.